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Wikipedia.
Events:
January 12 - Royal Aeronautical Society is formed (London).
February 13 - Jesse James robs his first bank.
May 16 - The United States Congress eliminates the half dime coin and replaces it with
the five cent piece, or nickel.
May 16 - Charles Elmer Hires invents root beer.
June 14 - Beginning of the Austro-Prussian War, when the Austrians and most of the
medium German states declare war on Prussia.
July 3 - Austro-Prussian War decided at the Battle of Königgratz, resulting in Prussia
taking over as the prominent German nation from Austria.
July 5 - Marriage of Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, third daughter of Queen
Victoria to Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg.
July 20 - Naval battle at Lissa between Austria Hungary and Italy.
July 24 - Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. state to be readmitted to
the Union following the American Civil War.
July 25 - The United States Congress passes legislation authorizing the rank of General
of the Army (now called "5-star general") Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes
the first to have this rank.
July 27 - The Atlantic Cable is successfully completed, allowing transatlantic telegraph
communication for the first time.
July 28 - The Metric Act of 1866 becomes law and legalizes the standardization of
weights and measures in the United States.
August 23 - Treaty of Prague ends the Austro-Prussian War.
In Sweden the Riksdag of the Estates is replaced by an elected two chamber
assembly, the Riksdag.
Alfred Nobel invents dynamite.
Births:
January 8 -
Leuntje van Splunteren.
January 29 -
Romain Rolland, dramatist, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature
in 1915 (+ 1944).
February 15 -
Gerard Minheere.
March 6 -
Jacob van den Houten.
March 18 -
Jan van den Houten.
March -
Abraham Stoutjesdyk.
April 1 -
Ferruccio Busoni, pianist and composer (+ 1924).
April 3 -
Jannetje Kamerling.
April 6 -
Butch Cassidy, outlaw (+ 1909).
May 17 -
Neeltje van den Houten.
May 17-
Erik Satie, French composer.
July 28 -
Jacobus Johannes Rieff.
July 28 -
Beatrix Potter, Children's author.
September 7 -
Tristan Bernard, writer.
September 15 -
Jan van den Houten.
September 17 -
Jannetje van den Houte.
September 21 -
H. G. Wells, science fiction novelist.
October 2 -
Cornelis van den Houten.
October 15 -
Nicholas Troost (Troast).
October 27 -
Wilhelmus de Voogd.
November 2 -
Willem Pieter van den Berge.
November 3 -
Leendert van Vliet.
December 3 -
Jannetje Hakkenbrak.
Thomas Hunt Morgan, biologist.
Sun Yat-sen, Chinese Revolutionary.
Robert Broom, paleontologist.
Deaths:
March 11 -
Teunis van den Houten.
March 18 -
Jacob van den Houten.
April 8 -
Jan van den Houten.
April 30 -
Johannus van den Houten.
July 2 -
Jaaptje van den Houten.
September 14 -
Tannetje Wandemaker.
September 15 -
Cornelis van der Vlugt.
November 8 -
Maria van den Houten.
Bernhard Riemann, Mathematician.
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