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| 1865 |
| | | A committee to campaign for women's suffrage is formed in Manchester, the first of many in Britain | |
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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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| 1867 |
| | | Britain's new Reform Act extends the franchise to working men in British towns | |
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| 1867 |
| | | The US Congress passes Reconstruction Acts, dividing the defeated South into military districts and insisting on elections by universal male suffrage | |
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| 1869 |
| | | The Fifteenth Amendment to the US Constitution (ratified in 1870) makes it illegal to deny the right to vote on racial grounds | |
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| 1870 |
| | | As the result of a plebiscite, Rome and the remaining papal states are included in the kingdom of Italy | |
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| 1872 |
| | | The Ballot Act adds to the British electoral system the essential element of secrecy in voting | |
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| 1875 |
| | | Charles Stewart Parnell takes his seat in the House of Commons at Westminster and immediately adds zest to the campaign for Home Rule | |
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| 1877 |
| | | The Compromise of 1877 settles the disputed US presidential election but ends active Republican commitment to the cause of Reconstruction in the southern states | |
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| 1878 |
| | | Romania achieves a new status as an internationally recognized independent nation | |
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