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1865
The last survivor of the Richmond tontine dies, at the age of 91, ending the payment of interest and making the Richmond Bridge free of tolls
1866
A pressure group for penal reform in Britain is named after the great prison reformer John Howard
1866
William McCanlis keeps a cricketing diary
Extract from Wiliam McCanlis' diary, 1866
Centre for Kentish Studies
1866
A Civil Rights Act is passed by the US Congress, guaranteeing the legal rights of African-Americans
1866
The Fourteenth Amendment to the US constitution (not ratified till 1868) assures equal rights as citizens to all born or naturalized in the USA
1866
Prussia invades its neighbouring German states and launches the Seven Weeks' War
1866
The Prussians achieve the first
blitzkrieg
in their Seven Weeks' War defeat of the Austrians
1866
Walt Whitman laments the assassinated President Lincoln in his poem 'O Captain! My Captain!', published in
Sequel to Drum-Taps
1866
George Eliot publishes
Felix Holt the Radical
, based on her childhood memories of the period of the great Reform Bill in 1832
1866
Russell's government falls, and Lord Derby returns for the third time, but again briefly, as Britain's prime minister
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