Major Events
- Jun 13 US House of representatives passes 14th Amendment (Civil rights)
- Jul 27 First transatlantic telegraph cable comes ashore at Heart's Content, Newfoundland after being laid out 1,686 miles by Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Great Eastern steamship
- Aug 20 President Andrew Johnson formally declares US Civil War over
- More 1866 Events
Did You Know?
Jesse James holds up his first bank, stealing $15,000 from the Clay County Savings Association in Liberty, Missouri
J. B. M. Hertzog
Butch Cassidy
Beatrix Potter
H. G. Wells
Ramsay MacDonald
Sun Yat-sen
James J. Corbett
Kenesaw Mountain LandisMore People Born in 1866
Miguel IMore 1866 Deaths
Famous Weddings in 1866
- Nov 9 Tsarevich Alexander of Russia (later Alexander III) marries Princess Dagmar of Denmark at the Grand Church of the Winter Palace, St. Petersburg
Charles Dickens
Claude Monet
Giuseppe Verdi
Andrew Johnson
Edward Smith-Stanley