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The Marylebone Cricket Club, arbiter of cricket, finally rules that overarm bowling is legitimate
York House is acquired on behalf of the Comte de Paris, exiled Orleanist claimant to the French throne.
Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman become Lincoln's two leading generals in the final thrust of the Civil War
Prussia and Austria combine forces to seize Schleswig-Holstein, but soon fall out
The island of Corfu is ceded by Britain to the kingdom of Greece
Grant moves south in a hard-fought campaign to pin down Lee's Confederate army at Petersburg, near Richmond
The French arrange for the coronation of the Austrian archduke Maximilian as emperor of Mexico
The First International is established in London, with Karl Marx soon emerging as the association's leader
Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell presents to the Royal Society his discoveries in the field of electromagnetics, now known collectively as Maxwell's Equations
The first Geneva Convention establishes standards for the treatment of the wounded in war
The Federal government confiscates the Arlington estate of Confederate general Robert E. Lee and turns it into a war cemetery
Imperial Chinese troops and Gordon's auxiliaries take Nanjing, the rebel capital, finally bringing to an end the Taiping rebellion
Pope Pius IX includes socialism, civil marriage and secular education among eighty modern errors listed in his Syllabus
William Tecumseh Sherman captures Atlanta, the first important southern city to fall into Union hands
Dostoevsky publishes Notes from Underground, the bitter memories of a retired civil servant that is often described as the first existentialist novel
President Lincoln is re-elected for a second term, thanks largely to recent Union successes on the Civil War battlefields
The Hungerford Railway Bridge, also known as the Charing Cross Railway Bridge, brings trains to Charing Cross Station
William T. Sherman reaches the coast and captures Savannah, after his violently destructive 'march to the sea'
The last survivor of the Richmond tontine dies, at the age of 91, ending the payment of interest and making the Richmond Bridge free of tolls
Gregor Mendel reads a paper to the Natural History Society in Brno describing his discoveries in the field of genetics
The Confederate government abandons Richmond, and Lee begins a retreat to the west
Lincoln visits the Confederate capital at Richmond and is greeted by a jubilant crowd of freed slaves
A west wing is added to Garrick's Villa by Sylvanus Phillips
Lee surrenders to Grant at the Appomattox Court House, and is offered conciliatory terms
The third Hampton Court Bridge is built, replacing one on the same line that was pulled down in 1864, made of wrought-iron lattice girders in five spans on cast-iron columns
