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1866
 
    
US painter Winslow Homer makes his name with the exhibition of a Civil War subject, Prisoners from the Front       
1866
 
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Austrian rule ends in the Venetian territories, which now join the new kingdom of Italy      
1866
 
    
Recovery from serious injury convinces Mary Baker Eddy that sickness and health are spiritually based, and provides her with the impulse to found Christian Science       
1866
 
    
Algernon Swinburne scandalizes Victorian Britain with his first collection, Poems and Ballads       
Algernon Swinburne, by Bryan c.1880
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1866
 
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The Argentine Rural Society is founded as the exclusive preserve of Argentina's oligarchy      
1866
 
    
Dostoevsky publishes Crime and Punishment, a novel narrated by Raskolnikov, a St Petersburg student and murderer       
1866
 
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Napoleon III withdraws French troops from Mexico, leaving the emperor Maximilian in a dangerous situation       
1866
 
   
A railway bridge brings trains to Cannon Street      
Cannon Street Railway Bridge, by Crowther, 1892
Guildhall Library
1866
 
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Elizabeth Twining, who founded St John's Hospital in Oak Lane, Twickenham, occupies Dial House until her death. See in Google maps   
1867
 
   
Britain's new Reform Act extends the franchise to working men in British towns