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| 1862 |
| | | John McDouall Stuart reaches the north coast of Australia at Van Diemen's Gulf seven months after setting off from Adelaide | |
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| 1862 |
| | | The Homestead Act grants 160 acres in the west of the USA to any family farming them for five years | |
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| 1862 |
| | | Otto von Bismarck declares Blut und Eisen (blood and iron) to be the only policy by which Prussia can become strong | |
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| 1862 |
| | | Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee defeat a Union army in the second battle of Bull Run or Manassas | |
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| 1862 |
| | | The Federal victory at Antietam comes at a cost of more than 22,000 casualties in a single day | |
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| 1862 |
| | | Lincoln declares in his Emancipation Proclamation that all slaves in any state opposing the Union government 'are and henceforward shall be free' | |
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| 1862 |
| | | Dostoevsky publishes Notes from the House of the Dead, a semi-autobiographical novel about life in a Siberian labour camp | |
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| 1862 |
| | | The future Cassel Hospital estate, now with a single mansion, is leased for nine years to HRH Robert Philippe, Duc de Chartres, exiled from France along with his grandfather, King Louis Philippe | |
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| 1862 |
| | | Unpublished American poet Emily Dickinson writes more than 300 poems within the year | |
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| 1862 |
| | | The bones of Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills are brought back to Melbourne after the heroic failure of their attempt to cross Australia | |
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