1866 Calendar
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1866 Historical Event(s)
March 31, 1866
– The Spanish Navy bombs the harbor of Valparaíso, Chile.
April 6, 1866
– The Grand Army of the Republic, an American patriotic organization composed of Union veterans of the American Civil War, is founded. It lasts until 1956.
April 8, 1866
– Italy and Prussia ally against Austrian Empire.
May 5, 1866
– Memorial Day first celebrated in United States at Waterloo, New York.
July 24, 1866
– Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. State to be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War.
July 25, 1866
– The United States Congress passes legislation authorizing the five-star rank of General of the Army. Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to be promoted to this rank.
July 27, 1866
– The first permanent transatlantic telegraph cable is successfully completed, stretching from Valentia Island, Ireland, to Heart’s Content, Newfoundland.
July 30, 1866
– New Orleans’s Democratic government orders police to raid an integrated Republican Party meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150.
September 22, 1866
– Battle of Curupaity in the War of the Triple Alliance.
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.
Who Were Born On 1866?
January 13, 1866
– Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer (d. 1901)
February 24, 1866
– Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev, Russian physicist (d. 1912)
March 22, 1866
– Jack Boyle, American baseball player (d. 1913)
March 26, 1866
– Fred Karno, British music hall impresario (d. 1941)
March 28, 1866
– Jimmy Ross, Scottish footballer (d. 1902)
July 3, 1866
– Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter (d. 1907)
August 5, 1866
– Carl Harries, German chemist (d. 1923)
August 17, 1866
– Mir Mahboob Ali Khan, 6th Nizam of Hyderabad (d. 1911)
September 2, 1866
– Charles Vintcent, South African cricketer (d. 1943)
December 16, 1866
– Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-born French abstract painter (d. 1944)