Charles Dickens Timeline: 1868.

Charles Dickens Timeline: 1868.The Circumlocution Office2023-03-13T23:14:53+00:00

1868

February.

Dickens turns 56.

Charles Dickens’s 56th birthday was on 7 February 1868.

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1852 The first powered, passenger-carrying airship, the Giffard dirigible, travels 17 miles (27 km) from Paris to Trappes.

1841 The Sultanate of Brunei cedes Sarawak to the United Kingdom.

1846 Battle of Monterrey. During the Mexican–American War (1846-1848), a mix of United States forces under the command of General Zachary Taylor capture the northern Mexican city of Monterrey after defeating Mexican forces under General Pedro de Ampudia in a battle lasting four days.

1869 Black Friday. In the United States, gold prices plummet after President Ulysses Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities after two investors, Jay Gould and James Fisk, attempted to control the market. Gould and Fisk had befriended Abel Corbin, a small-time speculator and brother-in-law of the president, attempting to influence regular government gold sales to pay off the national debt in the wake of the American Civil War (1861 – 1865).