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| 1863 |
| | | France establishes a protectorate over Cambodia | |
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| 1863 |
| | | English author Charles Kingsley publishes an improving fantasy for young children, The Water-Babies | |
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| 1863 |
| | | Henri Dunant and others establish the Red Cross in Geneva, as a direct result of the battlefield casualties Dunant has witnessed at Solferino in 1859 | |
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| 1863 |
| | | The Seventh-day Adventists become an organized church, with a first General Conference in Battle Creek, Michigan | |
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| 1863 |
| | | St Mary's hospital opens in Rochester, Minnesota, soon to be known as the Mayo Clinic from the three Drs Mayo who run it | |
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| 1863 November |
| | | George Eliot, now prosperous, moves with G.H. Lewes into the Priory, a splendid house near Regent's Park | |
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| 1863 |
| | | President Lincoln, in honouring the Union dead at Gettysburg, captures in three minutes the essence of American democracy | |
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| 1863 |
| | | The Metropolitan Railway, the world's first to go underground, opens in London using steam trains between Paddington and Farringdon Street | |
|  | Baker Street station on the new underground
London's Transport Museum
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| 1863 |
| | | 48-year-old Julia Margaret Cameron is given a camera by her daughter, in the Isle of Wight, and decides to concentrate on portraits | |
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| 1864 |
| | | The Marylebone Cricket Club, arbiter of cricket, finally rules that overarm bowling is legitimate | |
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