1864 2nd German-Danish war begins

1864 Austrian/Prussian troops occupy Sleeswijk/Holstein

1864 Battle of Yazoo River, Mississippi

1865 13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day)

1865 General Sherman's march through South Carolina begins

1865 JS Rock, first black lawyer to practice in Supreme Court, admitted to bar

1867 Bricklayers start working 8-hour days

1870 Founding of the Quebec Provincial Police force.

1871 Jefferson Long of Georgia is first black to make an official speech in House of Representatives (opposing leniency to former Confederates)

1881 US Assay Office in St Louis MO authorized

1883 French Lieutenant-Colonel Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes reaches Bamako on the Niger

1884 First volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, published

1887 Harvey Wilcox of Kansas subdivides 120 acres he owned in Southern California & starts selling it off as a real estate development (Hollywood)

1892 Mrs William Astor invites 400 guests to a grand ball at her mansion thus beginning the use of the "400" to describe the socially elite

1893 Prince Albert, Saskatchewan recorded the coldest day on record in Saskatchewan -56.7 degrees Celsius

1893 Thomas Edison completes worlds first movie studio (West Orange NJ)

1898 First auto insurance policy in US issued, by Travelers Insurance Company

1902 China's empress Tzu-hsi forbids binding woman's feet

1905 Hungarian premier Tisza resigns

1906 English Minister of Foreign Affairs Edward Grey's wife Dorothy fatally injured

1906 First federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth KS

1909 US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah opens

1910 Dragoumis government forms in Greece

1910 The first British labour exchange opens

1914 Pennsylvania State Board of [motion picture] Censors appointed

1914 Tanganyika Railway opens

1916 SS Empress Queen, stranded in fog off Bembridge, Isle of Wight, where she later broke up. Although there were 1300 troops on board all were got off.

1918 Russia adopts Gregorian calendar (becomes Feb 14)

1918 The French ship LaDive is torpedoed in the Mediterranean.

1920 Royal Canadian Mounted Police forms as Royal Northwest Mounted Police merge with Dominion Police

1920 The first commercial armored car introduced (St Paul MN)

1923 Allied ultimatum on Lithuanian occupation of Memel

1923 Fascists Voluntary Militia forms in Italy under Mussolini

1924 Amsterdam's Netherlands Press Museum opens

1924 New British MacDonald government recognizes USSR

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