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1866
 
    
A pressure group for penal reform in Britain is named after the great prison reformer John Howard       
1866
 
 
William McCanlis keeps a cricketing diary    
Extract from Wiliam McCanlis' diary, 1866
Centre for Kentish Studies
1866
 
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A Civil Rights Act is passed by the US Congress, guaranteeing the legal rights of African-Americans      
1866
 
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The Fourteenth Amendment to the US constitution (not ratified till 1868) assures equal rights as citizens to all born or naturalized in the USA       
1866
 
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Prussia invades its neighbouring German states and launches the Seven Weeks' War     
1866
 
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The Prussians achieve the first blitzkrieg in their Seven Weeks' War defeat of the Austrians      
1866
 
     
Walt Whitman laments the assassinated President Lincoln in his poem 'O Captain! My Captain!', published in Sequel to Drum-Taps        
1866
 
     
George Eliot publishes Felix Holt the Radical, based on her childhood memories of the period of the great Reform Bill in 1832        
1866
 
    
Russell's government falls, and Lord Derby returns for the third time, but again briefly, as Britain's prime minister       
1866
 
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The terms of the treaty of Prague, ending the Seven Weeks War, make plain the transfer of German leadership from Austria to Prussia