The Coming Day, a suffragette periodical from the Free Church League for Women's Suffrage, began monthly publication in London.

Stanton, whom a recent commentator thinks the leading intellectual of the nineteenth-century [US] women's rights movement and a drastically under-recognized political thinker, objected to the Church's anti-feminist interpretations of the Bible. This critique, her most daring venture, alarmed even her allies at a time when suffrage campaigners were trying to present their cause as non-threatening.

The Society issued questions quarterly; members' written responses were circulated in advance of discussion. In spring of 1868 the Kensington Society dissolved, having been replaced in large part by bodies such as suffrage groups and newly formed professional associations for women.

Liberal leader Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman , a known supporter of women's suffrage, formed the government of the UK, following the surprise resignation of Conservative Arthur James Balfour .

In France, Condorcet published Lettres d'un bourgeois de Newhaven, which makes a serious and straightforward case for full civil rights for women, including suffrage.

The Women's National Liberal Association formed when sixty moderate associations withdrew from the Women's Liberal Federation to protest the WLF's new pro-suffrage policy.

The House of Commons rejected the third petition for universal manhood suffrage.

The Vote, a weekly magazine covering a range of feminist issues including suffrage, ended publication.

Pius IX left Rome for the Kingdom of Naples in late 1848 in the wake of political unrest. Left in power, radicals prepared for the election of a Constituent Assembly by universal suffrage. Although less than half of the electors voted, the Constituent Assembly comprised a large number of radical members, who declared Pius IX deposed and proclaimed a Roman Republic. Mazzini went to Rome after this success, and became one third of a Triumvirate to preserve the Republic. Garibaldi , having returned to Italy to fight in the Piedmontese army against Austria, was subsequently charged with the military defence of the Roman Republic.