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| 1862 |
| | | Richard Burton, visiting Dahomey, provides reports of the kingdom's celebrated Amazons preparing for war | |
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| 1862 |
| | | Speke and Grant find the Ripon Falls, over which the headwater of the Nile flows from Lake Tanganyika | |
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| 1862 |
| | | George B. McClellan brings a Union army within a few miles of Richmond, but withdraws after the Seven Days Battle against Robert E. Lee | |
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| 1862 |
| | | Oxford mathematician Lewis Carroll tells 10-year-old Alice Liddell, on a boat trip, a story about her own adventures in Wonderland | |
|  | Page from Carroll's manuscript for Alice
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| 1862 |
| | | Swiss humanitarian Henri Dunant publishes A Memory of Solferino, proposing an international agency to cope with the battlefield casualties he has witnessed | |
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| 1862 |
| | | John McDouall Stuart reaches the north coast of Australia at Van Diemen's Gulf seven months after setting off from Adelaide | |
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| 1862 |
| | | The Homestead Act grants 160 acres in the west of the USA to any family farming them for five years | |
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| 1862 |
| | | Otto von Bismarck declares Blut und Eisen (blood and iron) to be the only policy by which Prussia can become strong | |
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| 1862 |
| | | Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee defeat a Union army in the second battle of Bull Run or Manassas | |
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| 1862 |
| | | The Federal victory at Antietam comes at a cost of more than 22,000 casualties in a single day | |
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