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| 1862 |
| | | Lincoln declares in his Emancipation Proclamation that all slaves in any state opposing the Union government 'are and henceforward shall be free' | |
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| 1862 |
| | | Dostoevsky publishes Notes from the House of the Dead, a semi-autobiographical novel about life in a Siberian labour camp | |
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| 1862 |
| | | Unpublished American poet Emily Dickinson writes more than 300 poems within the year | |
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| 1862 |
| | | The bones of Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills are brought back to Melbourne after the heroic failure of their attempt to cross Australia | |
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| 1863 |
| | | It is discovered in the US that wood pulp can be used to make paper, and the Boston Weekly Journal is the first to use the new substance | |
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| 1863 |
| | | British officer Charles Gordon leads untrained auxiliaries against the Taiping rebels in China, becoming known as Chinese Gordon | |
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| 1863 |
| | | Samuel Clemens uses the pseudonym Mark Twain for the first time on an article in Virginia City's Territorial Enterprise | |
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| 1863 |
| | | British architect George Gilbert Scott designs a memorial for Prince Albert in Kensington Gardens | |
|  | Sculptural group, Albert Memorial
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| 1863 |
| | | Mobs of women destroy shops in Richmond, Virginia, in protest at food prices inflated by the war | |
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| 1863 |
| | | The French capture Mexico City and President Juarez flees to the north | |
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