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1866
 
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Austrian rule ends in the Venetian territories, which now join the new kingdom of Italy      
1866
 
    
Recovery from serious injury convinces Mary Baker Eddy that sickness and health are spiritually based, and provides her with the impulse to found Christian Science       
1866
 
    
Algernon Swinburne scandalizes Victorian Britain with his first collection, Poems and Ballads       
Algernon Swinburne, by Bryan c.1880
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1866
 
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The Argentine Rural Society is founded as the exclusive preserve of Argentina's oligarchy      
1866
 
    
Dostoevsky publishes Crime and Punishment, a novel narrated by Raskolnikov, a St Petersburg student and murderer       
1866
 
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Napoleon III withdraws French troops from Mexico, leaving the emperor Maximilian in a dangerous situation       
1867
 
   
Britain's new Reform Act extends the franchise to working men in British towns      
1867
 
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Secretary of state William Seward negotiates a price of $7.2 million for the purchase of Alaska from Russia, in a deal that some consider 'Seward's Folly'       
1867
 
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The British North America Act, acknowledging the fears of French Catholics in Canada, guarantees the rights of "dissentient schools"      
1867
 
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The US Congress passes Reconstruction Acts, dividing the defeated South into military districts and insisting on elections by universal male suffrage