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1862 French begin to occupy Indo-China, Bismark begins 28 year career as chief minister of Germany, US land given to European immigrants to farm, Last wars against American Indians begin in US West for 28 years * Lincoln returns the Book of Mormon, Lincoln calls on Brigham Young (though not the governor) to raise troops to protect the telegraph, Saints lobby for statehood, Lincoln signed Morrill Bill that declares polygamy as illegal – not enforced, Morrill Act provides for agricultural experimentation, death of Austrian dramatist and comedian Johann Nestroy, death of American author Henry David Thoreau, end of reign of King Otto of Greece, First federal income tax in US to support Union’s Civil War record, Slavery banned in Washington, D.C., and Second Confiscation Act frees slaves of rebellious Southerners, Alice in Wonderland started by Lewis Carroll, Gatling creates machine gun in US, Hugo publishes "Les Miserables", Debussy born, Union forces capture Fort Henry Roanoke Island Ft. Donelson Jacksonville and New Orleans and Union wins Bull Run and Frederickburg – Emancipation Proclamation issued – effective 1863 – where slaves in rebel states declared free, Monaco sells Menton and Toquebrune to France, Bismarck becomes Prussian Prime Minister, King Otto I of Greece resigns after military revolt, Ivan Turgenev writes, Sarah Bernhardt’s debut at Comedie Française, Flaubert writes, Artemus Ward writes, Friedrich Hebbel writes, James Bryce writes “The Holy Roman Empire”, George Rawlinson writes about monarchies of the ancient East, Herbert Spencer writes, Albert Memorial in London designed by Gilbert Scott, Manet paints “Lola de Valence” and “La Musicue aux Tuileries”, Moritz von Schwind paints “The Honeymoon” Ingres paints “Bain Turque”, Berlioz composes, Lidwig Kochel catalogues Mozart’s works, Lion Foucault measures speed of light, RJ Gatling constructs 10-barrel gun bearing his name, Hemholtz writes about tones and sensations of sound, Johann von Lamont discovers earth currents, German botanist Julius Sachs demonstrates that starch is produced by photosynthesis, Swiss humanist Jean Henri Dunant proposes Red Cross, English cricket team tours Australia for first time, International Exhibition in London, death of Austrian dramatist Johann Nestroy, death of German poet Ludwig Uhland, Verdi composes opera in St. Petersburg, Lincoln returns the Book of Mormon, Lincoln calls on Brigham Young (though not the governor) to raise troops to protect the telegraph, Saints lobby for statehood, Lincoln signed Morrill Bill that declares polygamy as illegal – not enforced, Sioux uprising in Minnesota Sep 23 - Battle of Wood Lake, Homestead Act supplants 175 Land Ordinance granting free farms to settlers, Antietam, Morrill Act for Ag Colleges, Camp Douglas (UT) formed, Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act passed, July 8 Abraham Lincoln passes anti-Bigamy law, Verdi composes, Bismarck chancellor of Prussia, Battle of Antietam stops Confederate advance - Lee falls back to Virginia, Salt Lake Theater dedicated, Polygamy declared a crime, Victoria, Vancouver incorporated, Romania established for people of Moldavia and Wallachia; Gen McClellan forced to retire by Lee and Johnston of Confederacy; Burnside attacks Lee at Fredericksburg; New Orleans captured by Union; Monitor and Merrimac battle

1863 Dost Mohammed ends rule in Afghanistan, Al-Hajj ‘Umar of Tukolor takes Timbuktu, Poles rebel against Russian rule, French invade Mexico and set up Austrian Archduke as emperor, end of cholera outbreak in London, Earthquake in Philippines * Lincoln removes anti-Mormon governor from Utah and sends Doty – who supports leaving Mormons alone, death of US Political leader John Branch, death of German folklorist Jakob Grimm, death of US Attorney General and legislator John J Crittenden, death of French painter Ferdinand Delacroix, death of English novelist W.M. Thackeray, death of German dramatist Friedrich Hebbel, death of Amir of Kabul Dost Mohammed, Emancipation Proclamation, Wilberforce U in OH becomes first college run by African-Americans, end of Danish King Frederick III, Battle of Gettysburg, Mill's "Utilitarianism", AZ and ID organized as territories and WV becomes a state, Emancipation proclamation goes into force, Confederate victories at Chancellorsville VA Chattanooga, Union victories at Gettysburg Vicksburg – Surrender at Ft. Hudson, Chickamauga, “Gettysburg Address delivered, death of Mohammed Said Khedive of Egypt and Ismail rules,William Prince of Denmark becomes george I King of Greece, Civil war in Afghanistan after the death of Dost Mohammed, Schleswig incorporated into Denmark, Saxon and Hanoverian troops enter Holstein, Frederick VII King of denmark dies succeeded by Christian IX, French capture Mexico City and proclaim Archduke Maximilian of Austria emperor, gautier writes, death of Jakob Grimm, Edward Everett Hale writes, Charles Kingsley writes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow writes, death of French poet Alfred de Vigny, SR Gardiner writes History of England, T.H. Huxley writes about Man’s place in nature, Charles Lyell writes about the antiquity of man, Ernest Renan writes about the life of Jesus, U of MA in Amherst founded as MA Agricultural college, Gustave Dore creates illustrations of “Don Quichotte”, Manet paints, Dante Rossetti paints, Art center “Salon des Refuses” opens in Paris, Whistler paints, Berlioz composes opera, Bizet writes Paris opera, Billroth writes about pathology and therapy, Ebenezer Butterick develops first paper dress patterns, Sir Francis Galton writes about predicting weather, Thomas Graham invents process for separating gasses, National Academy of Sciences founded in DC, Henry Clifton Sorby discovers microstructure of steel and starts modern metallurgy, John Speke and James Grant descend Nile to Gondokoro where they meet Sir Samuel Whit Baker going upriver, Open-hearth steel furnace developed by Martin brothers in France based on Siemens process, First railroad in New Zealand opens between Christchurch and Ferrymead, Football Association founded in London, Grand Prix de Paris forst run, beginning of construction of London Underground railroad, French photographer AF Nadar makes ascent in his balloon, Edwars Prince of Wales marries Princess Alexandra of Denmark, US Congress establishes free city mail delivery, Travelers Insurance Company founded in Hartford CT, Roller skating introduced in US, Firsst stolen base in baseball by Eddie Buthbert of Philadelphia Keystones against Brooklyn Atlantics, Joe Coburn wins American boxing championship from Mike McCoole in 63 round match in MD, Pickett’s Charge at end of Battle of Gettysburg marks turning point of Civil War, Lincoln removes anti-mormon governor from Utah and sends Doty – who supports leaving Mormons alone, Thomas Henry Huxley publishes Man's Place in Nature, Manet exhibits his works, Edward, Prince of Wales, marries Alexandra of Denmark, Salvation Army founded, Emancipation Proclamation issued, Zanzibar becomes independent nation, Monitor vs. Merrimac Mar 8, Lincoln's son Willie died of typhoid, Emancipation Proclamation into effect, International Red Cross formed in Switzerland, Battle of Gettysburg Jun-Jul, Nov 19 Gettysburg Address, 10 percent plan - loyalty to the union and readmission to union thought out, VW separated from VA, 35th state, Union captures Vicksburg Union captures Chattanooga, Bear River Massacre, Continuous roll printing press patented Apr 14, Brigham Young Arrested Mar 10, Manet paints, Ill-fated attempt by Mexican conservatives and French to install emperor Maximilan I, New US territories of Idaho, Arizona, Montana and Wyoming, General Meade repels the Confederate army at Gettysburg, Asante people of W Africa defeat British in Third Asante War, western powers bombard Kagoshima and Shimonoseki Japan after Satsuma and Choshu forces attack westerners, Muslim rebellion in Gansu, Qinghai and Shanxi China, Emancipation Proclamation issued; Lee and Jackson defeat Union at Chancellorsville; Lee invades PA and defeated at Gettysburg; WV enters Union; German socialists organize

1864 Drought at horn of AFR for 2 years, Cyclone hits Bengal and Bangladesh, end of the Hamdallah caliphate in Mali, W Africa, Taiping rebellion in China results in fall of Nanking, Poles continue rebellion against Russian rule, First French convicts sent to New Caledonia, Oceana, Cyclone hits India, Apr 1 - Tornado deaths during Civil War in MS, UT – Jack Slade – outlaw lynched in Virginia City buried in Salt Lake, death of US Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, death of German architect Leo von Klenze, death of German composer Giacomo Meyerbeer, death of English poet John Clare, death of American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, death of English caricaturist John Leech, Congress repeals fugitive slave laws, Pope Pius IX denounces freedom of religion separation of church and state and accuses Jews of seeking world domination, Pasteur invents germ theory and Pasteurization – initially for wine, Austria and Prussia send ultimatum to Denmark – troops enter Schleswig – Danish forces defeated at Duppel and Denmark invaded – London conference troes to solve problem byt in Peace of Vienna Denmark ceses Schleswig Holstein and Lauenburg to Austria and Prussia, Archduke Maximilian of Austria accepts Mexican crown and he and his wife made Emperor and Empress of Mexico, Gen Ulysses S Grant succeeds Gen. Halleck as Union chief, Gen Sherman marches from Chattanooga through GA and defeats Confederate army at Atlanta and occupies Savannah, Abraham Lincoln reelected, Massacre of Cheyenne and Arapahoe at Sand Creek CO, Italy renounces claim to Rome – Florence made capital in place of Turin, Territory of MT organized and NV becomes a state, death of King Maximilian II of Bavaria succeeded by Louis II, first International Workingmen’s Association founded by Karl Mark in London and New York, Confederate agents set Barnum Museum and Astor House afire in attempt to burn New York, Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft founded at Weimar, Dickens writes, Jules de Goncourt writes, Henrik Ibsen writes, death of Walter Savage landor the English author, German author Wilhelm Raabe writes, Tolstoi writes “War and Peace”, Anthony Torllope writes, Cesare Lombroso writes, Cardinal Newman writes, Syllabus Errorum issued by Pope Pius IX which condemns liberalism socialism and rationalism, death of German architect Leo von Klenze, Bruckner composes, death of American songwriter Stephen Foster, Offenbach composes operetta, Sir Samuel White Baker discovers Lake Albert, Joseph Bertrand writes about differential and integral calculus, first salmon cannery in US at Washington CA, Geneva Convention establishes neutrality of battlefield medical facilities, Octavia Hill begins London tenement-dwelling reforms, Knights of Pythias founded in DC, death of German socialist leader Ferdinand Lasalle, free press founded in Vienna, Italian archaeologist Giovanni B de Rossi publishes results of exploration of Roman catacombs, “In god We Trust” first appears on US coins, Travers Stakes established at first racetrack in Saratoga NY, Admiral Farragut attacks Confederates in Mobile Bay AL with “Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!”, Joseph Lister begins studying, practicing antiseptic practices, Abraham Lincoln reelected, Prussia defeats Denmark in war, Mar 9 Grant made leader in North, May - Sherman's march to the sea, Jun Sherman marches to Richmond, NV 36th state, Sand Creek Massacre begins Cheyenne War, S Africa saints emigrate, Brahms and Offenbach compose, Lewis Carroll writes Alice in Wonderland, Tolstoy writes War and Peace Firstascent of the Matterhorn, Successful trans-atlantic cable, Marx founds First International, Austria and Prussia invade Denmark in the Schleswig-Holstein War, War of Triple Alliance fought by Paraguay against Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil, Atlanta and Savannah destroyed by Sherman, Pope Pius IX publishes works condemning materialistic philosophies, Canadian governmental collapse, Bismarck of Prussia defeats Denmark in territorial dispute, Denmark enters war with Austria and Prussia over dutchies, Marx forms First International Workingmen's Association; Atlanta captured by Union and Sherman divides South; NV enters Union

1865 13th Amendment, Freedmen’s Bureau provides assistance, Establishment of Atlanta U, Shaw U, Virginia Union U for African-Americans, Wars between Orange Free State and Moshweshwe’s Basuto people in South Africa until 1868, King Kojong persecutes Christians in Korea, 13th US Amendment, Paraguay attacks neighboring countries 5 years, first Chinese laborers arrive in Hawaii, New Zealand capital moved from Auckland to Wellington, Salvation Army created in London, Wild Bill wins first showdown, KKK forms in TN, Gregor Mendel, * Day of mourning in Utah as Lincoln dies, Johnson ignores petition from Utah to appoint friendly governor, Grant hears rumors that Mormons teaming up with Indians – Grant believes Mormonism will be short-lived, Phoebe Ann Moses (Annie Oakley) Age 6 father dies, Jun - Tornado hits WI, death of British statesman Lord Palmerston, death of Austrian painter Ferdinand Waldmuller, death of English architect Joseph Paxton, death of Irish mathematician William R Hamilton, death of German dramatist Otto Ludwig, CA quake est at 6.5, Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde premiers in Germany, Lee surrenders at Appomattox ends Civil War, slavery ended, Lincoln assassinated, Union fleet takes Charleston – Richmond durrenders to Grant, Jefferson Davis appoints Robert E Lee as General-in Chief, CSA surrenders at Appomattox Apr 9, Andrew Johnson #17, Jefferson Davis captured and imprisoned, last surrender in Shreveport LA, Bismarck and Napoleon III meet in Biarritz, death of Lord Palmerston succeeded by Lord John Russell, King Leopold I of Belgium dies and sone Leopold II rules, Wellington becomes capital of New Zealand, Outbreak of war between Boers of Orange Free State and basutos, Matthew Arnold writes, Josh Billings writes, David belasco (age 12) writes, Lewis Carrol (C.L. Dodgson) writes “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, Mary Mapes Dodge writes “Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates”, death of Elizabeth Gaskell the English novelist, Cardinal Newman writes poem, Ouida writes, Adalbert Stifter writes, AC Swinburne writes, Mark Twain writes “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”, Paul Verlaine writes, Walt Whitman writes, Henri Baudrillart writes about liberty, WS Jevons writes about coal, WEH Lecky writes about rationalism in Europe, JS Mill writes, German mathematician Julius Plucker invents line geometry, Pierre Joseph Proudhon the French political philosopher dies, JR Seeley writes, Purdue U at Cornell U and U of Maine and U of Kentucky founded, Dore creates illustrations to the Bible, Winslow Homer paints, George Innes paints, death of English architect Joseph Paxton dies, Hippolyte Taine paints, death of Ferdinand Waldmuller the Aust. Painter dies, Yale U opens first Department of Fine Arts in US, Meyerbeer writes opera, Schubert’s unfinished symphony performed in Vienna, Suppe composes operetta, Atlantic cable finally completed, death of Irish mathematician William R Hamilton, John Wesley Hyatt invents composition billard ball – replaces ivory, German chemist FA Kekule explains aromatic compounds and benzene ring theory, Joseph Lister initiates antiseptic surgery by using carbolic acid on a compound wound, Thaddeus Lowe invents ice machine, MIT founded, Clerk Maxwell writes about electricity and magnetism, Gregor Mendel enunciates Law of Heredity, first oil pipeline in PA, Pasteur succeeds in succeeds in curing silkworm disease saving French industry, Ican M Sechenov writes about physiological basis of psychic processes, baseball convention of 91 clubs in New York starts professional baseball, Nottingham pawnbroker William Booth moves to London to organize the Christian Revival Association – later renamed Salvation Army, first carpet sweeper comes into use, Debut of WG Grace as cricketer in Gentlemen v. Players, London Metropolitan Fire Service established, English barrister John Macgregor pioneers canoeing as sport, James Miller McKim founds “The Nation”, first railroad cars designed by Pullman, Queensberry Rules governing boxing outlined, “SF Examiner” and “SF Chronicle” founded, First train robbery in North Bend OH, Union stockyards open at Chicago, 1700 die in explosion of the “Sultana” on Mississippi River, Edward Whymper climbs the Matterhorn, First woman professor of astronomy at Vassar – Maria Mitchell, Day of mourning in Utah as Lincoln dies, Johnson ignores petition from Utah to appoint friendly governor, Grant hears rumors that Mormons teaming up with Indians – Grant believes Mormonism will be short-lived, 13th amendment - Slavery over, Abraham Lincoln assassinated Apr 14 - died Apr 15, Johnson becomes 17th president End of Civil War May 26, 13th amendment passes ending slavery Jan 31-Feb 1, Andrew Johnson new President, Freedman's Bureau established, Lee surrenders at Appomattox, Reconstruction begins, Black Hawk War begins, Utes forced to Uintah Reservation, Apr 10 Church agrees to build telegraph connecting settlements, War with the Indians begins in UT - Black Hawk War, Immigration to US begins to increase again, first transatlantic telegraph cable laid, Chinese "coolie" laborers imported to US for railroad construction, Begin second term of John Russell as Prime Minister of Britain as end of Lord Pelmerston, death of Leopold I of Belgium, Leopold II ascends the throne; Johnston surrenders to Sherman; Jefferson Davis captured May 10; Lincoln assassinated Apr 14

1866 Fisk U and Howard U founded for African Americans, Southern Homestead Act allows for settlement, Civil Rights Act grants citizenship to Blacks, Ku Klux Klan officially founded, Drought at horn of AFR ends, Prussia defeats Austria at Sadowa in Seven Weeks War, Northern US Republicans force through radical reforms for south for 11 years, 15 year flood in Shanghai China ends, Drought and famine in India, Tsar Alexander III marries borther’s widow – Princess Dagmar of Denmark – Alex mocks Slavs in favor of Prussians and supported Berlin Treaty and Eastern Orthodoxy, persecutes Jews, Ottomans clash with Maronite leader in Lebanon and are defeated – starts war, Jesse James first robs a bank, Bismarck survives assassination, Austro-Prussian war begins and Prussia begins domination of Germany, first trans-Atlantic cable laid, Metric Act standardizes weights, dynamite invented, end of Austro-Prussian War, * Saints visit Johnson, Future president Grant meets with Saints, “Buffalo” Bill Cody heads west to Kansas – edge of the frontier age 20 leaving pregnant wife behind, First Broadway spectacular - "The Black Crook", Old St. Patrick’s in New York City partially burned, UT – Robert Leroy Parker (Butch Cassidy) born in Beaver UT, death of English author Thomas Love Peacock, death of German author Friedrich Ruckert, death of English poet John Keble, creation of London’s first department store by William Whiteley, End of William I of Prussia, Austro-Prussian War, Reconstruction in US, Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment", Henry Wickham an adventurer to S America gathers seeds to prodouce latex – shipped to far East and starts latex boom, end of war between Boers and Basutos in Orange Free State, Alexander Cuza Prince of Romania dethrones and succeeded by Karl Prince of Hohenzollern as King Carol I, Prussian-Italian alliance against Austria – Prussian troops annex duchy of Holstein – secret treaty between Austria and France – end of German confederation – Prussia invades Saxony Hanover and Hesse – ITA declares war on Austria – Italians defeated at Custozza – Prussian victory at Langensalza against Hanover and at Sadowa against Austria – Italian fleet destroyed by Austrians at Lissa – preliminary peace at Nikolsburg followed by armistice and confirmed by Peace of Prague – Prussia annexes Hanover Hesse Nassau and Frankfurt – ended by treaty of Vienna – peace between Prussia and Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein incorporated into Prussia, Ismail Khedive of Egypt granted rights of primogeniture by Sultan of Turkey, 14th Amendment prohibits voting discrimination and repudiates Confederate war debts, Revolts in Crete against Turkish rule, Charles Baudelaire writes, Alphonse Daudet writes, Dostoevsky writes “Crime and Punishment”, Robert Hamerling writes, Ibsen writes, Henry Irving makes London debut (theater), Kingsley writes historical novel, death of Thomas Love Peacock English novelist, Pierre Larousse writes a universal dictionary, Friedrich Lange writes history of materialism, American Evangelical Alliance founded, Degas begins to paint ballet scenes, Monet paints “Camille”, Offenbach composes operetta, Smetana composes opera, Ambroise Thomas composes opera in Paris, Aeronautical Society of Great Britain founded, Henst Haeckel writes fundamental laws of biogenetice, Alfred Nobel invents dynamite, English engineer Robert Whitehead invents underwater torpedo, Dr. TJ Barnardo opens home for destitute children in London, “Black Friday” on London stock exchange, Tom Morris of St. Andrews wins his first professional golf championship, Saints visit Johnson, Future president Grant meets with Saints, Louis Pasteur publishes work on heating to kill bacteria, Cholera epidemic hits US, Cross Atlantic communication permanently established, Civil Rights Act vetoed by Johnson, overridden by Congress, KKK Organized, First Texas cattle drive, Clashes between settlers and Indians, Church publishes Juvenile Instructor, Louis Pasteur develops Pasteurization, Christian Science founded by Mary Baker Eddy, Dostoyevsky writes Crime and Punishment, Prussia defeats Austria in the Seven Weeks War (Austro-Prussian), Ku Klux Klan founded to oppose reconstruction and freedoms for blacks, End of service of John Russel as Prime Minister of Britain as Liberals forced to resign, Bismarck of Prussia defeats Austria-Hungary (Austrian War), leading to strife between Germany and France (later Franco-Prussian in 1870); Atlantic cable laid

1867 Talledega College and Morgan State U founded for African Americans, Congress passes First Reconstruction Act, Diamonds discovered in Kimberly S Africa, Disraeli introduces Second Reform Bill in Britain, end of French interference in Mexico with emperor Maximilian from Austria governing, Britain makes Canada a dominion, first black votes in D.C., Benito Jua’rez becomes Mexican president again, Maronite Catholic sect member Karam goes to Algeria – Maronites helped the Crusaders and were protected by France since 1638, japan Shogun Yoshinobu abdicates and Emperor Meiji rules, Suez canal opens, Lister publishes regarding antiseptics, Canada formation more formal, Alaska purchased from Alexander II of Russia, Singapore becomes British, O Canada written, Thomas Baker eaten in Fiji, Manifest Destiny – Medicine Lodge treaty signed, Charles Dickens in US – visits NY theater, “Grange” precursor formed, Belmont stakes first run, Otto von Bismarck re-organizes Germany under Prussia, Yellow Fever in New Orleans, Diamonds discovered in South Africa, reconstruction begins, U.S. acquires Midway Island in Pacific, Juarez of Mexico destroy Maximillian's army and execute him, UT – Calamity Jane’s father Mr. Canary dies and is buried in Salt Lake, death of French painter J.A.D. Ingres, death of German painter Peter von Cornelius, death of English natural philosopher and physicist Michael Faraday, death of Russian composer M.I. Glinka, death of French landscape painter Theodore Rousseau, death of French poet Charles Baudelaire, death of American poet Henry Timrod, death of Scottish poet Alexander Smith, death of American humorous writer Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne), tsunami in Virgin Islands, In Japan, last Shogun resigns, US purchases Alaska from Russia, Nobel invents dynamite in Sweden (1866), Marx "Das Kapital," Nicaraguan poet Rubén Dario born, Fenian outrages in Ireland and Manchester, Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy created by “Ausgleich” (compromise) – Francis Joseph I crowned King of Hungary at Budapest and new Austrian constitution accepts dual system, Nebraska becomes state, Napoelon III withdraws support from Maximilian in Mexico – French troops leave country and Maximilian executed, British North America Act establishes Dominion of Canada, Alaska sold to US for 7.2 million, N German Confederation founded, British Parliamentary Reform Act, Ferdinand Bebel becomes first socialist member of N German Reighstag, Garibaldi begins “March on Rome” and is defeated by French and papal troops and taken prisoner, death of Charles Pierre Baudelaire – writer, Reclams Universal Bibliothek – paperback series books – started at Leipzig, Charles de Coster writes, Oliver Wendell Holmes writes, Writers – Ouida Trollope Turgenev Zola Ibsen Twain, Walter Bagehot writes about the English Constitution, EA Freeman writes history of Norman conquest of England, Marx writes “Das Kapital”, Pope Pius IX decides to hold ecumenical council, Cezanne paints “Rape”, death of German painter Peter von Cornelius, death of French painter Jean Dominique Ingres, Millais paints “Boyhood of Raleigh”, Paris World’s Fair introduces Japanese art to the West, death of French painter Theodore Rousseau, Bizet composes opera in Paris, Gounod composes Romeo and Juliet opera, Offenbach composes in Paris, Johann Strauss II writes the “Blue Danube” waltz, AS Sullivan writes comic opera, Verdi composes “Don Carlos” opera, death of English chemist and physicist Michael Faraday, Livingstone explores Congo, Pierre Michaux begins to manufacture bicycles, Joseph F Monier patents reinforced concrete process, Railroad completed through Brenner Pass, Discovery of S African diamond field, British scientist William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) invents syphon recorder, Prussia buys mail service from the Thurn und Taxis family, “The Queensberry Rules” by John Graham Chambers of the London Amateur Athletic Club, Gold discovered in Wyoming, Diamonds discovered in S Africa... 171, French expelled from Mexico, Hapsburg empire reorganized into Austro-Hungarian monarchy - 1918 First part of Das Kapital published by Marx, Strauss creates "The Blue Danube", Second Reform Bill doubles British Franchise to two million, Canada becomes an independent dominion, Dominion of Canada strengthened by new provinces Jul 1, March Congress passes Reconstruction Act, Tenure of Office Act forbids Pres from firing senate approved Official, Kansas Pacific Railroad, Patrons of Husbandry (Farm Union) forms, NB #37, US purchases AK, Grange is organized as Patrons of Husbandry, Brigham Young requests bishops recognize relief societies, First conference on temple square Oct 6, Verdi, Strauss compose, Alaska purchased, Franz Joseph I of Austria-Hungary, Marx writes Das Kapital Ibsen writes, Mexican Emperor Maximilan executed, Russia sells Alaska to US for $7.2 million, forced transportation of convicts to penal settlements in Australia ends, Japanese civil war breaks out after Choshu-Satsuma clans rebel against the shogun, Britain passes universal suffrage for working class, British North America Act passes, re- establishing Canadian government, Macdonald becomes Premier of Canada, Austria develops new constitution, NEB enters union; second Atlantic cable laid; US buys Alaska from Russia


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