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1866 Calendar

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•  January 12, 1866 – The Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in London.
•  January 18, 1866 – Wesley College, Melbourne is established.
•  April 8, 1866 – Italy and Prussia ally against Austrian Empire.
•  April 10, 1866 – The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is founded in New York City by Henry Bergh.
•  June 2, 1866 – Fenian raids: Fenians are victorious in both the Battle of Ridgeway and the Battle of Fort Erie.
•  June 7, 1866 – 1,800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they loot and plunder around Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec.
•  July 24, 1866 – Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. State to be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War.
•  July 27, 1866 – The first permanent transatlantic telegraph cable is successfully completed, stretching from Valentia Island, Ireland, to Heart’s Content, Newfoundland.
•  August 20, 1866 – President Andrew Johnson formally declares the American Civil War over.
•  October 19, 1866 – Venice - Annexion of Veneto and Mantua to Italy - At Hotel Europa, Austria hands over Veneto to France, which hands it immediately over to Italy.

•  January 13, 1866 – Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer (d. 1901)
•  February 16, 1866 – Billy Hamilton, American baseball player (d. 1940)
•  February 20, 1866 – Carl Westman, Swedish architect and designer (d. 1936)
•  March 4, 1866 – Eugène Cosserat, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1931)
•  May 10, 1866 – Léon Bakst, Russian artist (d. 1924)
•  July 11, 1866 – Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1953)
•  July 28, 1866 – Beatrix Potter, English author (d. 1943)
•  August 5, 1866 – Carl Harries, German chemist (d. 1923)
•  November 21, 1866 – Konishiki Yasokichi I, Japanese sumo wrestler, 17th Yokozuna (d. 1914)
•  December 16, 1866 – Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-born French abstract painter (d. 1944)