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| 1865 |
| | The first branch of the Ku Klux Klan is founded at Pulaski, in Tennessee, on Christmas Eve | |
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| 1866 |
| | A pressure group for penal reform in Britain is named after the great prison reformer John Howard | |
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| 1866 |
| | A Civil Rights Act is passed by the US Congress, guaranteeing the legal rights of African-Americans | |
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| 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 | |
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| 1866 |
| | Prussia invades its neighbouring German states and launches the Seven Weeks' War | |
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| 1866 |
| | The Prussians achieve the first blitzkrieg in their Seven Weeks' War defeat of the Austrians | |
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| 1866 |
| | Walt Whitman laments the assassinated President Lincoln in his poem 'O Captain! My Captain!', published in Sequel to Drum-Taps | |
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| 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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| 1866 |
| | The terms of the treaty of Prague, ending the Seven Weeks War, make plain the transfer of German leadership from Austria to Prussia | |
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| 1866 |
| | US painter Winslow Homer makes his name with the exhibition of a Civil War subject, Prisoners from the Front | |
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