Important Events in 1866
- Jun 13 US House of representatives passes 14th Amendment (Civil rights)
- Jul 27 transatlantic telegraph cable successfully in second attempt comes ashore at Heart's Content, Newfoundland laid out by Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Great Eastern steamship (1,686 miles long)
- Aug 20 President Andrew Johnson formally declares US Civil War over
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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
Beatrix Potter
Butch Cassidy
H. G. Wells
Henry Bacon
Ramsay MacDonald
Sun Yat-senFamous People in 1866
Charles Dickens
Novelist- Claude Monet
Impressionist Painter - Giuseppe Verdi
Composer
Charles Dickens
Claude Monet
Giuseppe VerdiWorld Leaders in 1866
- Andrew Johnson
17th US President - Edward Smith-Stanley
British Prime Minister
Andrew Johnson
Edward Smith-StanleyFamous People Who Died in 1866
- 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)
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