Significant Events
- Jun 13 US House of representatives passes 14th Amendment (Civil rights)
- Jul 19 Tennessee is 1st to ratify 14th Amendment to the US constitution, guaranteeing civil rights
- Jul 27 Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long)
- Aug 20 President Andrew Johnson formally declares US Civil War over
Did You Know?
Jesse James holds up his first bank, stealing $15,000 from the Clay County Savings Association in Liberty, Missouri
On February 13, 1866
World Leaders in 1866
Andrew Johnson
17th US President
Edward Smith-Stanley
British Prime Minister
Famous People in 1866
Charles Dickens
Novelist
Claude Monet
Impressionist Painter
Giuseppe Verdi
Composer
Beatrix Potter
Butch Cassidy
H. G. Wells
Henry Bacon
Ramsay MacDonald
Sun Yat-senFamous Deaths
- Jan 10 Pyotr Pletnyov, Russian poet (b. 1792)
- Jan 15 M T d'Azeglio, writer, dies
- Jan 23 Thomas Love Peacock, English satirist (b. 1785)
- Jan 27 John Gibson, British sculptor, dies at 75 (b. 1790)
- Feb 3 François-Xavier Garneau, French Canadian poet and historian (b. 1809)