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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
69: | [[1866]] — [[1873]] (east wing), [[1879]] — ... - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
89: ...Red]], (c.950-1003), explored and colonized [[Greenland]]
90: ...ríksson]], (born 970), attempted to colonize [[Vinland]], discovered [[the Americas|America]]
94: *[[George Everest]], (1790-1866)
131: ...ara Falls]] and the [[Saint Anthony Falls]] (the only [[waterfall]] on the [[Mississippi River|Mississ...
148: ...anish people|Danish]] explorer, Governor of [[Greenland]] - David Livingstone (4684 bytes)
3: ...red because of his meeting with [[Henry Morton Stanley]] which gave rise to the popular quotation, "''...
22: In March [[1866]], Livingstone returned to [[Africa]], this time ...
25: ...onstituent of the present [[Tanzania]]), until Stanley left the next year.
27: Despite Stanley's urgings, Livingstone was determined not to le... - List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
5: *[[Jeppe Aakj沼Aakj沬 Jeppe]], (1866-1930), Danish writer - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
25: *[[Karol Adamiecki|Adamiecki, Karol]], (1866-1933), Polish engineer and economist
42: ...es Francis Adams (1866)|Adams, Charles Francis]] (1866-1954), son of above, Navy secretary
90: *[[George Ade|Ade, George]] (1866-1944), ''[[The Slim Princess]]'' - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
12: ...ingen|Karl, Prince of Leiningen]]. Victoria, the only child of the couple, was born in Kensington Pala...
14: ...n in the line of succession, Victoria was taught only [[German language|German]], the first language o...
35: ...le ''His Royal Highness''. Prince Albert was commonly known as the "Prince Consort", though he did not...
39: ...tween Victoria and Prince Albert. Albert was not only the Queen's companion, but also an important pol...
43: ... to shoot the Queen. Although his gun was loaded only with paper and tobacco, his crime was still puni... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
6: ...e [[Old Masters|old masters]] on her own and in [[1866]] she moved to Paris.
8: ...ather continued to resist her vocation, and paid only for her basic needs but not her art supplies. Sh... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
10: ...orced, and so he remained married to her in name only, while he made house solely with Evans.
23: As an author, Eliot was not only very successful in sales, but she was, and remai...
33: * ''[[Felix Holt, the Radical]]'' (1866) - Ouida (1938 bytes)
12: * ''Chandos '' (1866) - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (3312 bytes)
7: In 1866 she was appointed general medical attendant to St... - Matthew Henson (1087 bytes)
2: '''Matthew Henson''' ([[1866]] – [[1955]]) was an [[American]] explorer ...
6: ...ere discovered by [[S. Allen Counter]] in a [[Greenland]] expedition when they were in their eighties. - Saxophone (14311 bytes)
3: ... in the mid-[[1840s]]. The saxophone is most commonly associated with [[popular music]], [[big band]] ...
11: ...ally manufacture or modify the instruments. After 1866 many modifications were introduced by a number of...
14: ... the [[oboe]] than to the [[clarinet]]. However, unlike the [[oboe]], whose tube is a single cone, mos...
16: ...le fingering system, the modern saxophone is commonly considered an easy instrument to learn, especial...
25: ...le high baffles (and the resulting tone) are commonly associated with metal mouthpieces, any mouthpiec... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
48: ...uction and the modern administrative state would only emerge with the [[New Deal]] some 70 years later...
75: ...ived into adulthood. Of Robert's three children, only Jessie Lincoln had any children (2 - Mary Lincol...
89: ...e stand claiming he witnessed the crime in the moonlight. Lincoln produced a [[Farmer's Almanac]] to s...
102: ... in the [[American South|South]] — and won only 2 of 996 counties in the entire South. Even befo...
119: ...roclamation as a wartime measure, insisting that only the outbreak of war gave constitutional power to... - Andrew Johnson (12662 bytes)
51: ...es of America|the Confederacy]], Johnson was the only Senator from the seceded states to continue part...
80: ...t"|'''[[James Speed]]'''||align="left"|1865–1866
82: ...gn="left"|'''[[Henry Stanberry]]'''||align="left"|1866–1868
86: ...'[[William Dennison]]'''||align="left"|1865–1866
88: ...="left"|'''[[Alexander Randall]]'''||align="left"|1866–1869 - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
32: ...ted the form of his new name with middle initial only, never acknowledging that the "S" stood for Simp...
52: ... Unfortunately for Grant's coordinated strategy, only Sherman's advance into Georgia was making progre...
58: ...by President [[Andrew Johnson]] on [[July 25]], [[1866]].
64: ...d as a member of the ring and escaped conviction only because of a presidential pardon. After the Whis... - Canada (35540 bytes)
3: ...iew article is already too long and should serve only as an introduction for Canada. To keep this over...
94: ...y of Ghent]] was signed in December 1814. It was only after the French and Napoleonic wars ended in Eu...
98: In 1864 and 1866, British North American politicians held three co...
111: ...to. To the north lies the [[Arctic Ocean]]; [[Greenland]] is to the northeast. Since [[1925]], Canada...
113: ...anada covers a larger area than the U.S., it has only one-ninth its population. - Romania (19812 bytes)
68: ...e was replaced by a [[Hohenzollern]] dynasty in [[1866]], and independence and status as a [[kingdom]] w...
164: ... were accelerated, even though deep reforms were only begun in [[2004]]. Restructuring programs includ...
193: ...million people in many parts of the world, but mainly in Europe and the Western Hemisphere.
197: ...manians or Hungarians). The Rroma people are commonly known in Romania as ''ţigani'' (tzigany). - Hungary (18459 bytes)
65: ...ghts. The Austrians were finally able to prevail only with Russian help.
67: ..., [[1859]]) and Prussia ([[Battle of K?gratz]], [[1866]]), Hungary would eventually, in [[1867]], manage...
152: ...ally, however the [[suicide]] rate remains stubbornly high. Economic reform measures such as health ca...
161: ...a]]) and a smaller ones in [[Austria]] (in [[Burgenland]]), [[Croatia]] and [[Slovenia]].
195: *[http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/enlargement/hungary/ Country Profile Hungary], tons o... - Connecticut (28543 bytes)
47: ...overnments or [[county seat]]s; rather, there is only the state government and the governments of the ...
89: ...her tax-paying businesses with them, and leaving only the [[urban poor]] in the now impoverished Conne...
97: ...ed that industry, in all senses of the word, not only strengthened individual moral fiber, but also se...
99: ...any]] manufactured pistols between [[1859]] and [[1866]], and the [[Sage Ammunition Works]] manufactured...
105: ...and [[tool]]s continue to be manufactured by [[Stanley Corporation]] in [[New Britain]], despite havin... - Tennessee (19096 bytes)
39: ...ge named "Tanasqui" in [[1567]] while travelling inland from [[South Carolina]]. European settlers lat...
50: ...he United States Constitution]] on [[July 18]], [[1866]], and was the first state readmitted to the Unio...
52: Tennessee was the only state that seceded from the Union that did not h...
77: ...nnessee lies adjacent to 8 other states, matched only by Missouri which also borders 8 states. Tenness...
95: ...onal income was $28,641, 36th in the nation, and only 91% of the national per capita personal income o... - Oklahoma (32092 bytes)
60: ...[EPA]] as having 11 different ecoregions (one of only 4 US states to have more than 10 ecoregions). Th...
122: The "[[Five Civilized Tribes]]" were not the only ones forced to Oklahoma. Nations such as the [[D...
131: After the Civil War, in [[1866]], the federal government forced the tribes into ...
139: ... ceded to the government by the Indians under the 1866 treaties was not a crime. The government at first...
148: ... part of the lands ceded to the government in the 1866 treaty but with the Cherokees retaining access. C... - Nevada (17565 bytes)
51: Nevada achieved its current boundaries on May 5, 1866 when it absorbed the portion of [[Pah-Ute County,...
68: ...or homosexuals and heterosexuals. Heterosexuals only have to be 14 while homosexuals must be at least...
130: *[[Fernley, Nevada|Fernley]] - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
110: * [[1510]]: [[Pocket watch]]: [[Peter Henlein]]
255: * [[1866]]: [[Dynamite]]: [[Alfred Nobel]]
311: ...ormer]]: [[William Stanley (physicist)|William Stanley]]
321: ... [[1888]]: [[Pneumatic tube tire]]: [[John Boyd Dunlop]]
394: * [[1914]]: [[Tank]], military: [[Ernest Dunlop Swinton]] - Comet (30542 bytes)
11: ...ugh the inner solar system, the dust reflecting sunlight directly and the gases glowing due to [[ion|i...
15: ...vered that [[Comet Borrelly]]'s surface reflects only 2.4% to 3% of the light that falls on it; by com...
17: ...-rays and far ultraviolet photons [http://www.kvi.nl/~bodewits].
29: ... their discoverers, but comets that had appeared only once continued to be referred by the year of the...
35: ...lost, and A/ indicating an object that was mistakenly identified as a comet, but is actually a [[minor... - History of science (41710 bytes)
40: .... Initially these universities were organized to only teach [[theology]], but people like [[Roger Baco...
78: ...sults by introducing discrete energy levels. Not only did [[quantum mechanics]] show that the laws of ...
91: ...ls provided a ready supply of products which not only provided energy, but also synthetic materials fo...
117: ...reciated by his contemporaries and came into use only with discoveries of British surgeon [[Joseph Lis...
122: ...loped by the Austrian monk [[Gregor Mendel]] in [[1866]]. Mendel's laws provided the beginnings of the s... - History of biology (3053 bytes)
7: ...ulated his [[laws of inheritance]] published in [[1866]]. However, his work was not recognized for a few... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
82: *[[Albert Baertsoen]] ([[1866]]-[[1922]])
85: *[[Léon Bakst]] ([[1866]]-[[1924]])
312: *[[Richard Dadd]] ([[1817]]-[[1866]])
324: *[[Stanislaw Debicki]] ([[1866]]-[[1924]])
550: *[[Hans Hofmann]] ([[1880]]-[[1866]]) - Claude Monet (4533 bytes)
10: Monet's [[1866]] ''The Woman in the Green Dress'' ''(Camille, ou... - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
17: ...to be made so as to accomplish that which we can only suggest. Yet there are sufficient proofs and exa...
27: ...[Royal Aeronautical Society of Great Britain]] in 1866, and decided to prove it by building the world's ...
53: ... occurred on [[July 2]], [[1900]]. It lasted for only 18 minutes, as LZ 1 was forced to land on the la...
57: ...W) as he expected. Langley's assistant, Charles Manly, then reworked the design into a five-cylinder w...
61: ...as "wing warping". Although this method was used only briefly during the history of aviation, it worke... - American Civil War (47733 bytes)
29: [[Image:stainlessbanner.png|100px|]]<br />
55: ...rejected secession ([[April 27]], [[1861]]), but only after the [[Baltimore riot of 1861|rioting in Ba...
71: ...ly, if not impossible, to bring about the gentlemanly compromises of the past (such as the [[Missouri ...
73: ... of slavery in the Western territories. Although only a small share of Northerners favored measures to...
95: ...ould crush the nascent rebellion, and so Lincoln only called for volunteers for 90 days. This resulte... - Timeline of United States history (1860-1899) (10289 bytes)
38: ====1866–1869====
39: *[[1866]] - [[Civil Rights Act of 1866]]
40: *[[1866]] - [[Ku Klux Klan]] founded
41: *[[1866]] - ''[[Ex Parte Milligan]]'' 71 US 2 1866 rules that civilians cannot be tried in military ...
122: *[[1890]] - [[McKinley tariff]] - History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
9: ...w Johnson]], who vetoed the [[Civil Rights Act of 1866]]; however, his veto was overridden. This failur...
11: ...ept [[Tennessee]], which had been readmitted in [[1866]]) into 5 military districts. Governments that ha...
13: ...nal [[Ku Klux Klan]], in 1866; but it lasted for only three years.
71: ...re locked in a cycle of [[debt]], from which the only hope of escape was increased planting. This led ...
80: ... four-year span. To make matters worse, the [[McKinley Tariff of 1890]] was one of the highest the cou... - Columbus Day (5999 bytes)
6: ...an Francisco]] in 1869, following on the heels of 1866 Italian celebrations in [[New York City]]. The fi...
20: ...bus and the Columbian legacy is a matter to be openly and enthusiastically applauded as an unrivaled "... - United States Senate (35505 bytes)
16: ...es of bribery in Senate elections arose between [[1866]] and [[1906]]. Many individuals, furthermore, pe...
25: ...olutions censuring members; [[censure]] requires only a simple majority and does not remove a senator ...
30: ...ittees, and have more staffers. The prestige commonly associated with the Senate is reflected by the b...
42: ...presides over very few Senate debates, attending only on important ceremonial occasions (such as the s...
52: Senate procedure depends not only on the rules, but also on a variety of customs a... - Ernest William Brown (1403 bytes)
1: '''Ernest William Brown''' ([[November 29]] [[1866]] – [[July 22]] [[1938]]) was a British [[a...
21: [[Category:1866 births|Brown, Ernest William]] - World Series (40101 bytes)
7: ... leagues' standings, received such shares; today only the teams finishing in second place in their div...
9: ...rld" appellation has stuck despite the fact that only teams in the [[United States]] and [[Canada]] pa...
33: * 1866 Brooklyn Atlantics
63: * 1896 [[Baltimore Orioles (NL)|Baltimore Orioles]]
77: ...ston AL]] defeats [[Pittsburgh Pirates|Pittsburgh NL]], 5 games to 3. - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
119: *[[John Mercer]], (1791-1866), chemist and industrialist
174: *[[Wendell Meredith Stanley]], (1904-1971), [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]], [...
194: *[[Alfred Werner]], (1866-1919), [[1913]] [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] - Alexander Graham Bell (18688 bytes)
19: ... spent at the [[University of Edinburgh]]. From [[1866]] to [[1867]], he was an instructor at Somersetsh...
23: ...deavoured to produce a telephone which would not only send musical notes, but articulate speech. With ...
25: ... range of Bell's inventive genius is represented only in part by the eighteen patents granted in his n...
39: ...otice of a patent application) of a similar kind only 2 hours after Bell had filed for his patent.
55: ...[decibel]] (dB), equal to 0.1 B, became more commonly used. - Venice (22017 bytes)
10: ...dship of its mainland territories was relatively enlightened and the citizens of such towns as [[Berga...
12: ...ist|Winged Lion of St. Mark]], symbol of Venice. Only Venetian ships could efficiently transport the m...
14: ...self. The ''[[Cavalieri di San Marco]]'' was the only order of [[chivalry]] ever instituted in Venice,...
26: ...ia following Napoleon's defeat in [[1814]]. In [[1866]], along with the rest of Venetia, Venice became ...
35: Early in the [[15th century]], as new mainland territories were expanded, the first standing ... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
116: *[[John Gibson (sculptor)|John Gibson]] (1790 - 1866)
123: *[[Paul Granlund]] (1925 - 2003)
289: *[[Paul Troubetzkoy|Prince Paul Troubetzkoy]] (1866 - 1938) - Reconstruction (12035 bytes)
6: ...w Johnson]], who vetoed the [[Civil Rights Act of 1866]]; however, his veto was overridden.
8: ...ee]], which had been readmitted on [[July 24]], [[1866]]) into five military districts.
40: ...9 US 3 ([[1883]]), that the Fourteenth Amendment only gave Congress the power to outlaw public, rather...
128: <td>[[July 24]], [[1866]]</td> - Jefferson Davis (14427 bytes)
3: ...n Pierce]]. He is most famous for serving as the only [[President]] of the [[Confederate States of Ame...
12: ...ssippi watershed)|Red River]] for the repair and enlargement of the fort. Later the same year, he was...
62: ...icted]] for [[treason]] until a year later (May [[1866]]) due to the constitutional concerns of [[U.S. S... - March 17 (9666 bytes)
44: *[[1866]] - [[Pierce Butler (justice)|Pierce Butler]], ju...
136: * [http://www.tnl.net/when/3/17 Today in History: March 17] - Sacramento, California (21190 bytes)
37: ...ved in this area for perhaps thousands of years. Unlike the settlers that would eventually make Sacram...
56: ...rojects were funded though taxes levied on goods unloaded from boats and loaded onto rail cars in the ...
86: ...ournalist [[Mark Twain]] worked at the Union in [[1866]]. In late [[2004]] the Sacramento Union returned...
103: ... a result, the greater metropolitan area sprawls only four miles west of downtown (as [[West Sacrament...
125: ...a usually has low humidity. Rain generally falls only between November and March, with the rainy seaso... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
17: *[[Lars Ahlfors|Lars Valerian Ahlfors]] (Finland, [[1907]] - [[1996]])
443: *[[Ernst Leonard Lindel? (Finland, [[1870]] - [[1946]])
528: *[[Rolf Nevanlinna]] (Finland, [[1895]] - [[1980]])
555: *[[Paul Painlev靝 (France, [[1863]] - [[1933]])
617: *[[Bernhard Riemann]] (Germany, [[1826]] - [[1866]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
98: *[[Ernest William Brown]] ([[England]], [[1866]] – [[1938]])
216: *[[Edwin Brant Frost]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1866]] – [[1935]])
234: ...on Goldschmidt]] ([[Germany]], [[1802]] – [[1866]])
266: ... Ludwig Hencke]] ([[Germany]], [[1793]] – [[1866]])
396: ...Joel Hastings Metcalf]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1866]] – [[1925]]) - Sweden (27111 bytes)
1: ...of Sweden|metropolitan areas]], with most of the inland consisting of large peaceful forests and mount...
72: ...r-ways of the northern Baltic and the [[Gulf of Finland]].
73: ...Finland]] continued; the country today known as Finland was a part of Sweden from [[1362]] until [[180...
79: ...d finally in [[1809]] when the [[Grand Duchy of Finland]] was created out of the eastern half of Swede...
84: ...oholism. Therefore a massive [[emigration]] to mainly the [[U.S]] occurred 1850-1910. However, as the ... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
214: *[[Anicius Manlius Severinus Bo봨ius]], (AD 480-524 or 525){{fn|...
313: *[[Stanley Cavell]], (born 1926){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
407: *[[Benedetto Croce]], (1866-1952){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
674: *[[John Grote]], (1813-1866){{fn|R}}
859: *[[William Stanley Jevons]], (1835-1882){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}} - July 24 (8660 bytes)
11: *[[1866]] - [[Reconstruction]]: [[Tennessee]] becomes the...
31: ...ria|Prime Minister of Bulgaria]], and became the only [[monarch]] in history to regain [[political pow...
63: *[[1940]] - [[Stanley Hauerwas]], Christian theologian - Yo-yo (9646 bytes)
23: [[Image:yoyo_patent_1866.png|thumbnail|180px|right|U.S. patent #59745]]
25: ...ssued to James L. Haven and Charles Hettrich in [[1866]] ({{US patent|59,745}}) under the name ''whirlig...
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