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| 1862 |
| | | A joint French, Spanish and British force lands in Mexico and captures Veracruz, ostensibly to collect the interest on European debts | |
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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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| 1863 |
| | | The French capture Mexico City and President Juarez flees to the north | |
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| 1863 |
| | | France establishes a protectorate over Cambodia | |
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| c. 1865 |
| | | The Plains Indians are threatened by settlers pressing west, building railways and slaughtering buffalo | |
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| 1866 |
| | | Napoleon III withdraws French troops from Mexico, leaving the emperor Maximilian in a dangerous situation | |
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| 1867 |
| | | The Canadian nation is called the Dominion of Canada – the first example of 'dominion status' | |
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| 1868 |
| | | Britain annexes Basutoland (now Lesotho), the kingdom of the Sotho leader Moshoeshoe | |
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| 1868 |
| | | George Custer leads federal troops in the massacre of more than 100 American Indians, on an official reservation beside the Washita river | |
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| 1869 |
| | | Britain, France and Italy take joint control of the finances of a bankrupt Tunisia | |
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