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History

1866

Population: 1.29 Billion*

Communication: First trans-Atlantic cable laid
Entertainment: Writers include Dostoyevsky (Crime and Punishment), Baudelaire, Alphonse Daudet, Robert Hamerling, Ibsen, Kingsley, Pierre Larousse (universal dictionary) Friedrich Lange (history of materialism)
Theater includes Henry Irving
Art includes Degas, Monet (Camille),
Music includes Offenbach, Smetana, Ambroise Thomas
Measurement: Metric Act standardizes weights
Religion: Christian Science founded by Mary Baker Eddy
Science: Haeckel writes fundamental laws of biogenetics - publishes genealogical tree relating organisms
Mendel proposes theory of heredity – ignored until 1900
Haeckel speculates that the cell nucleus is critical
Pasteur publishes work on heating to kill bacteria
Sports: Tom Morris wins first professional golf championship
Technology: Whitehead invents underwater torpedo, Nobel invents dynamite
Deaths: Author Thomas Love Peacock, Author Friedrich Ruckert, Poet John Keble,

General: End of drought at horn of Africa
Egypt: Ismail Khedive of Egypt granted rights of primogeniture by Sultan of Turkey
Orange Free State: End of war between Boers and Basutos

General: Henry Wickham an adventurer to S America gathers seeds to prodouce latex – shipped to far East and starts latex boom

General: Prussia defeats Austria at Sadowa in Seven Weeks War (Austro-Prussian War) - Treaty of Vienna
Kingdoms of Hesse Kassel, Hanover, Frankfurt - absorbed into Prussian territories
Austria: Secret treaty with France - Attack by Prussia starting Austro-Prussian War
Crete: Revolts against Turkish rule
Great Britain: Creation of London's first department store by William Whiteley
Aeronautical Society of Great Britain founded
TJ Barnardo opens home for destitute children in London
"Black Friday" on London stock exchange
End of service of John Russel as Prime Minister of Britain as Liberals forced to resign
Incurable disease that caused purple skin blotches in Ireland
Atlantic cable laid
Italy: Union with Prussia against Austria
Italians defeated at Custozza and Lissa but gains Venice
Prussia: Bismarck survives assassination
End of William I
Cholera outbreak
Austro-Prussian War - Prussians annex Holstein, invades Saxony Hanover and Hesse
Romania: Prince Alexander Cuza dethrones and Karl Prince of Hohenzollern as King Carol I
Russia: 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
Cholera outbreak

Lebanon: Ottomans clash with Maronite leader in Lebanon and are defeated – starts war