What Happened In August 1868 - Historical Events 1868 August

Historical Events for August, 1868

13th » A 1868 Arica earthquake called massive earthquake near Arica, Peru, causes an estimated 25,000 casualties, and the subsequent tsunami causes considerable damage as far away as Hawaii and New Zealand.
18th » French astronomy known as astronomer Pierre Janssen Timeline of chemical element discoveries called discovers helium.

2nd » Constantine I of Greece (d. 1923)
5th » Oskar Merikanto, Finnish pianist and composer (d. 1924)
6th » Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright (d. 1955)
7th » Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian-German economist and statistician (d. 1931)
10th » Hugo Eckener, German pilot and businessman (d. 1954)
16th » Bernarr Macfadden, American bodybuilder and publisher, founded Macfadden Publications (d. 1955)
20th » Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player (d. 1954)
23rd » Edgar Lee Masters, American author (d. 1950)
27th » Hong Beom-do, Korean general and activist (d. 1943)

5th » Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist and historian (b. 1788)
11th » Halfdan Kjerulf, Norwegian composer (b. 1815)