Notable Historical Events - 1866
1866 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 9 |
Fisk University establishes |
Jan 11 |
Steamship London sinks in storm off Land's End, England and kills 220 |
Jan 12 |
The Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in London. |
Jan 15 |
Bedrich Smetana's opera "Branibori v Cechach," premieres in Prague |
Jan 20 |
Prim's Insurrection in Spain ends |
Feb 4 |
Mary Baker Eddy cures her injuries by opening a bible |
Feb 10 |
Dutch government of Frans van der Putte forms |
Feb 13 |
Jesse James holds up his 1st bank, Liberty, Missouri ($15,000) |
Feb 16 |
Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington becomes the British Secretary of State for War. |
Feb 21 |
Lucy B Hobbs (Taylor) becomes 1st US woman to earn a DDS degree |
Feb 26 |
New York Legislature forms NYC Metropolitan Board of Health |
Mar 1 |
Paraguayan canoes sink 2 Brazilian ironclads on Rio Parana |
Mar 2 |
1st US company to make sewing needles by machine incorporated, Conn |
Mar 19 |
Immigrant ship Monarch of the Seas sinks in Liverpool; 738 die |
Mar 21 |
US Congress authorizes national soldiers' homes |
Mar 27 |
Andrew Rankin patents the urinal |
Mar 27 |
President Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th amendment |
Mar 28 |
1st ambulance goes into service |
Mar 30 |
Bedrich Smetana's "Verkaufte Braut" (Sold Bride) premieres |
Mar 31 |
The Spanish Navy bombs the harbor of Valparaíso, Chile. |
Apr 1 |
US Congress rejects presidential veto giveing all equal rights in US |
Apr 2 |
US President Johnson ends civil war in Ala, Ark, Fla, Ga, Miss, La, NC, SC, Tn & Va |
Apr 4 |
Alexander II of Russia narrowly escapes an assassination attempt in the city of Kiev. |
Apr 6 |
G.A.R. forms |
Apr 8 |
Italy and Prussia ally against Austria-Hungary. |
Apr 9 |
Civil Rights Bill passes over President Andrew Johnson's veto |
Apr 10 |
American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) forms |
Apr 16 |
Karakozov attempts to assassinate Tsar Alexander II of Russia |
Apr 16 |
Nitroglycerine at Wells Fargo & Co office explodes |
May 1 |
American Equal Rights Association forms |
May 2 |
Peruvian defenders fight off Spanish fleet at the Battle of Callao. |
May 4 |
Woodward's Gardens opens to public |
May 7 |
German premier Otto Von Bismarck seriously wounded in assassination attempt |
May 16 |
Charles Elmer Hires invents root beer |
May 16 |
US Congress authorizes the nickel 5 cent piece (replaces silver half-dime) |
May 18 |
French government of De Putte resigns |
May 21 |
1st-class debut of G F Grace aged 15 years 159 days |
May 24 |
Berkeley, California named (for George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne) |
May 28 |
Dutch government of Zuylen van Nijevelt/Heemskerk forms |
May 30 |
Opera "Die Verkaufte Braut" premieres (Prague) |
Jun 1 |
General Dutch Typographer Union forms |
Jun 1 |
Renegade Irish Fenians from US invade Fort Erie, Ontario |
Jun 2 |
Renegade Irish Fenians surrender to US forces |
Jun 7 |
Irish Fenians raid Pigeon Hill, Quebec |
Jun 7 |
1,800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they loot and plunder around Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec. |
Jun 11 |
The Agra High Court (ow the Allahabad High Court) is established in India. |
Jun 13 |
US House of representatives passes 14th Amendment (Civil rights) |
Jun 15 |
Prussia attacks Austria |
Jun 20 |
Italy declares war on Austria |
Jun 24 |
Second Battle at Custozza: the Austrian Imperial army, joined by the Venetian Army decisively defeated the Italian army, despite the Italians' strong numerical advantage. |
Jul 4 |
Firecracker thrown in wood starts fire destroying half of Portland, Mainee, US |
Jul 10 |
Indelible pencil patented by Edson P Clark, Northampton, Mass |
Jul 17 |
Italian fleet under Admiral Count Carlo Pellion di Persano captures Austrian Fort Lissa |
Jul 19 |
Tennessee is 1st to ratify 14th Amendment to the US constitution, guaranteeing civil rights |
Jul 20 |
Sea battle of Lissa-Austria vs Italy |
Jul 21 |
Cholera epidemic kills hundreds in London |
Jul 23 |
Cincinnati Baseball club (Red Stockings) forms |
Jul 24 |
Tennessee becomes 1st Confederate state readmitted to Union |
Jul 25 |
25th US Postmaster General: Alexander W Randall of Wisconsin takes office |
Jul 25 |
David Faragut appointed as 1st admiral in US Navy |
Jul 25 |
Ulysses S. Grant named 1st general of Army |
Jul 26 |
Canoe Club opens in England |
Jul 27 |
Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long) |
Jul 28 |
Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in US |
Jul 30 |
New Orleans's Democratic government orders police to raid an integrated Republican Party meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150. |
Aug 10 |
Transatlantic cable laid-Pres Buchanan spoke to Queen Victoria |
Aug 11 |
World's 1st roller rink opens (Newport RI) |
Aug 17 |
Bathe & Prussia signs peace treaty |
Aug 20 |
President Andrew Johnson formally declares US Civil War over |
Aug 23 |
Treaty of Prague ends Austro-Prussian war |
Sep 1 |
Last Navaho chief Manuelito turns himself in at Fort Wingate |
Sep 4 |
1st Hawaiian daily newspaper published |
Sep 6 |
Frederick Douglass is 1st US black delegate to a national convention |
Sep 22 |
Decisive battle of Curupaity in the War of the Triple Alliance. |
Sep 25 |
(Leonard W) Jerome Park opens in Bronx for horse racing |
Oct 1 |
Dutch Eindhoven-Venlo railway opens |
Oct 2 |
J Osterhoudt patents tin can with key opener |
Oct 6 |
1st train robbery in US (Reno Brothers take $13,000) |
Oct 15 |
Great fire in Quebec destroys 2,500 houses |
Oct 22 |
Paraguay: Battle of Curupaytí against Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. |
Oct 30 |
Jesse James gang robs bank in Lexington Missouri ($2000) |
Nov 4 |
Kingdom of Italy annexes Venetia |
Nov 17 |
Opera "Mignon" is produced (Paris) |
Nov 20 |
First national convention of Grand Army of Republic (veterans' org) |
Nov 20 |
Howard University founded (Washington DC) |
Nov 20 |
Pierre Lalemont patents rotary crank bicycle |
Nov 30 |
Work begins on 1st US underwater highway tunnel, Chicago |
Dec 3 |
Paid fire dept replaces volunteer companies |
Dec 6 |
Chicago water supply tunnel 3,227 m into Lake Michigan completed |
Dec 11 |
1st yacht race across Atlantic Ocean |
Dec 21 |
Cheyennes, Arapho's, Sioux, Fetterman Massacre |
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