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| 1852 |
| | | Louis Napoleon, asking the French people to approve his elevation to emperor as Napoleon III, receives a resounding yes in the plebiscite | |
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| 1858 |
| | | Lionel Nathan Rothschild becomes the first Jew to sit in Britain's House of Commons, taking his oath on the Old Testament | |
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| 1860 |
| | | Lincoln becomes the Republican presidential candidate, benefiting from a Democratic party split on the issue of slavery | |
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| 1861 |
| | | The Liberals recover Mexico City and elect Benito Juarez as president | |
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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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| 1865 |
| | | A committee to campaign for women's suffrage is formed in Manchester, the first of many in Britain | |
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| 1866 |
| | | The Fourteenth Amendment to the US constitution (not ratified till 1868) assures equal rights as citizens to all born or naturalized in the USA | |
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| 1867 |
| | | Britain's new Reform Act extends the franchise to working men in British towns | |
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| 1867 |
| | | The US Congress passes Reconstruction Acts, dividing the defeated South into military districts and insisting on elections by universal male suffrage | |
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| 1869 |
| | | The Fifteenth Amendment to the US Constitution (ratified in 1870) makes it illegal to deny the right to vote on racial grounds | |
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