1866 History Timeline

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Decades: 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s - 1860s - 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s

Years: 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 - 1866 - 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871

Events

January 12 - Royal Aeronautical Society is formed (London).
February 13 - Jesse James robs his first bank
April 1 - Ferruccio Busoni, pianist and composer (+ 1924)
July 3 - Austro-Prussian War decided at Koniggratz, resulting in Prussia taking over as the prominent German nation from Austria.
July 20 - Naval battle at Lissa between Autro Hungary and Prussia.
In Sweden The Riksdag of the Estates is replaced by an elected two chamber assembly, The Riksdag.
Alfred Nobel invents dynamite.

Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy

1866 in literature:

Births

January 29 - Romain Rolland, dramatist, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1915 (+ 1944)
April 1 - Ferruccio Busoni, pianist and composer (+ 1924)
April 6 - Butch Cassidy, outlaw (+ 1909)
May 17- Erik Satie, French composer
July 28 - Beatrix Potter, Children's author
September 7 - Tristan Bernard, writer
September 21 - H. G. Wells, science fiction novelist
Thomas Hunt Morgan, biologist
Sun Yat-sen, Chinese Revolutionary
Robert Broom, paleontologist

Deaths

Bernhard Riemann, Mathematician

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