1863 - 1866 (2 years)
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| 1 | 1863 | - 1863—1863:
SA - The Hill Presbyterian Church started in Port Elizabeth.
- 1863—1863:
SA - North End Cemetery started in Port Elizabeth.
- 1863—1863:
Football Association founded (UK)
- 1863—1863:
Opening of state institution for criminally insane at Broadmoor, England
- 10 Jan 1863—10 Jan 1863:
First section of the London Underground Railway opens
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| 2 | 1864 | - 1864—1864:
SA - St. George's Cemetery established in Port Elizabeth.
- 1864—1864:
A man-powered submarine, 'Hunley' sank a Federal steam ship USS Housatonic at the entrance to Charleston harbour in 1864 - the first recorded successful attack by a submarine on a surface ship
- 11 Mar 1864—11 Mar 1864:
The Great Sheffield Flood - over 250 died when a new dam broke while it was being filled for the first time
- 20 Aug 1864—20 Aug 1864:
Red Cross established - Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention
- 8 Dec 1864—8 Dec 1864:
Clifton Suspension Bridge over the River Avon officially opened
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| 3 | 1865 | - 1865—1866:
SA - Albania Settlement Scheme
- 1865—1865:
SA - Ostriches first domesticated.
- 1865—1866:
SA - Economic depression throughout South Africa. War between Orange Free State and Basutos.
- 1865—1865:
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917) becomes first woman doctor in England [she later became the first woman mayor in England, in Aldeburgh 1908]
- 1865—1865:
First concrete roads built in Britain
- 14 Apr 1865—14 Apr 1865:
End of American Civil War - slavery abolished in USA
- 14 Apr 1865—14 Apr 1865:
Abraham Lincoln assassinated in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth
- 5 Jul 1865—5 Jul 1865:
William Booth (1829-1912) founds Salvation Army, in London
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| 4 | 1866 | - 1866—1866:
SA - India officially stops sending Indian labourers to Natal.
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