Historical Events in 1866
39 curated events dated to this year, and 184 musicalized poets on V2Melody were alive then.
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1866
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Arrest and Sentencing
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Imprisonment and Transportation to Australia
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Keble's Final Years and Legacy
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Publication of 'Poems and Ballads'
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Arrest at Island Bridge Barracks
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Christina Rossetti Publishes 'The Prince's Progress and Other Poems'
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Civil Rights Act of 1866
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Conversion to Roman Catholicism
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Diamond Discovered at Kimberley (The Big Hole)
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Final Years and Legacy
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First Transatlantic Telegraph Cable Operational
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Involvement in the Chartist Movement
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Larousse Launches Grand Dictionnaire Universel
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Publication of 'The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire'
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Publication of 'The Unknown Eros'
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Publication of Herman Melville's 'Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War'
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Werner von Siemens invents the self-exciting dynamo in Berlin
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Aeronautical Society of Great Britain is founded
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Columbia River Salmon Canneries
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Death of Beloved Dog Carlo
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Education at the University College London
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James McIntyre's 'Ode on the Mammoth Cheese'
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Matriculation at Balliol College, Oxford
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Murder of Laura Foster
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Publication of 'The Mystic'
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Publication of 'The Poetical Works of Aubrey de Vere'
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Publication of Poem 'A narrow Fellow in the Grass' in Springfield Republican
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Siemens and Halske Build Stronger Dynamo
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The Overend, Gurney & Co. Collapse
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US Metric Act
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Deobandi Movement Founded in India
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Early Education of William Watson
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Friendship with Alfred Lord Tennyson
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General Grant Is Wrecked in the Auckland Islands
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Marriage to Mary E. Aldrich
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Oaks Colliery Explosion
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Publication of 'The Death of Balder'
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Solitary Confinement at Millbank Prison
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Marriage to Rosina Bulwer-Lytton
Poets alive in 1866
184 poets
Poets in 1866
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