May 01 Reconstruction of South begins, black voter registration

May 20 British parliament rejects John Stuart Mills law on women suffrage

May 03 The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.

May 27 The birth of Arnold Bennett, English novelist

May 07 Blacks stage ride-in to protest segregation in New Orleans

May 20 Royal Albert Hall foundation laid by Queen Victoria

May 11 Treaty of London drawn, concerning Luxembourg

May 23 Jesse James-gang rob bank in Richmond MO (2 die, $4,000 taken)

May 05 Battle of Pueblo; Méxicans defeat Maximilian's forces (Cinco de Mayo)

Jan 12 Leo Tolstoy's "Smert Ioonna Groznogo," premieres in St Petersburg

Jan 29 The birth of Vicente Blasco Ibanez, Spanish writer

Jan 07 Private Timothy O'Hea is awarded the Victoria Cross for his bravery in 1866, protecting the lives of 800 emigrants on a Grand Trunk train menaced by a fire in a boxcar carrying explosives. This is the only VC awarded for a brave deed not done in the face of the enemy

Jan 08 Legislation gives suffrage to DC blacks, despite President Johnson's veto

Jan 07 Private Timothy O'Hea is awarded the Victoria Cross for his bravery in 1866, protecting the lives of 800 emigrants on a Grand Trunk train menaced by a fire in a boxcar carrying explosives. This is the only VC awarded for a brave deed not done in the face of the enemy

Feb 01 Bricklayers start working 8-hour days

Feb 03 Prince Mutsuhito, 14, becomes Emperor Meiji of Japan (1867-1912)

Feb 14 Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insurance Company issues first policy

Feb 06 Peabody Fund forms to promote Black education in South

Feb 09 Nebraska becomes 37th US state

Feb 13 Johann Strauss' "Blue Danube" waltz premieres in Vienna

Apr 24 In Manhattan, Kansas a 5.1 quake is the largest historical earthquake in Kansas.

Apr 25 Tokyo is opened for foreign trade

Apr 24 Black demonstrators stage ride-ins on Richmond Va streetcars

Apr 08 International Exhibition opens in Paris

Apr 01 Blacks vote in municipal election in Tuscumbia, Alabama

Apr 16 The birth of Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer

Apr 08 Blacks vote in municipal election in Tuscumbia, Alabama

Apr 01 International Exhibition opens in Paris

Nov 04 90 kegs of powder used to get rock from Telegraph Hill for seawall

Nov 12 Mt. Vesuvius erupts.

Nov 25 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite

Nov 26 The first ever woman to vote in a British election casts her vote, due to a mistake in the electoral register

Nov 07 The birth of Marie Curie, First woman to win the Nobel prize for physics

Sep 09 Luxembourg gains independence

Sep 13 Gen E R S Canby orders SC courts to impanel blacks jurors

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