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| 1867 |
| | | A revival of the Prussian Zollverein, or customs union, includes all the German states except Austria | |
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| 1867 |
| | | The Queensberry rules, named after the Marquess of Queensberry, introduce padded gloves in boxing, and rounds of three minutes | |
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| 1867 |
| | | Modest Mussorgsky composes his orchestral work St John's Night on the Bare Mountain, based on a story by Gogol | |
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| 1867 |
| | | William Cody earns his nickname Buffalo Bill by killing thousands of the animals to feed construction workers on the Union Pacific Railroad | |
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| 1867 |
| | | Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel patents dynamite, making the volatile explosive nitroglycerine safer by combining it with kieselguhr | |
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| 1867 |
| | | The first collection of 'Negro Spirituals' is published in book form in the US as Slave Songs of the United States | |
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| 1868 |
| | | Benjamin Disraeli becomes British prime minister for the first time, at the head of a Conservative government, but only for a few months | |
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| 1868 |
| | | Britain annexes Basutoland (now Lesotho), the kingdom of the Sotho leader Moshoeshoe | |
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| 1868 |
| | | US president Andrew Johnson escapes impeachment (for dismissing his secretary of war) by a single voite | |
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| 1868 |
| | | Executions take place in public for the last time in London, being moved from outside Newgate Gaol to inside the prison | |
|  | Gallows plan, 1881
National Archives, Kew
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