1861 - 1870 (8 years)
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Date |
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| 1 | 1856 | - 1856—1862:
SA - Approximately 700 juveniles arrive from Holland.
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| 2 | 1857 | - 1857—1862:
SA - Assisted immigration schemes bring about 12 000 settlers.
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| 3 | 1861 | - 1861—1862:
SA - Griqua trek under Adam Kok III from Philippolis to Nomansland
- 1861—1861:
SA - American Civil War
- 25 May 1861—25 May 1861:
American Civil War begins
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| 4 | 1862 | - 1862—1862:
Lincoln issues first legal US paper money (Greenbacks)
- 20 Apr 1862—20 Apr 1862:
First pasteurisation test completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard
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| 5 | 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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| 6 | 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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| 7 | 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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| 8 | 1866 | - 1866—1866:
SA - India officially stops sending Indian labourers to Natal.
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| 9 | 1867 | - Apr 1867—1867:
SA - 21.25 carat diamond found near Hopetown.
- 1 Jul 1867—1 Jul 1867:
The British North America Act takes effect, creating the Canadian Confederation
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| 10 | 1868 | - 1868—1869:
SA - Korana War along Orange River
- 1868—1868:
Last convicts landed in Australia (Western Australia)
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| 11 | 1869 | - 1869—1869:
SA - Railway from Port Nolloth to O'Kiep
- 1869—1869:
SA - Star of South Africa diamond discovered. Gold and diamond rush starts.
- 1869—1869:
Ball bearings, celluloid, margarine, and washing machines, all invented
- 23 Nov 1869—23 Nov 1869:
Cutty Sark launched in Dumbarton
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| 12 | 1870 | - 1870—1870:
SA - Galeshewe of Tlhaping born
- 1870—1884:
SA - |Xam prisoners at Cape Town interviewed by Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd
- 1870—1871:
SA - The Anglican St. Peter's Church started in Port Elizabeth.
- 1870—1870:
SA - Opening of Cape Town Docks.
- 1870—1870:
GPO takes over the privately-owned Telegraph Companies (nationalised)
- 1870—1870:
Dr Thomas Barnardo opens his first home for destitute children
- 1870—1870:
Water closets come into wide use
- 1870—1870:
Diamonds discovered in Kimberley, South Africa
- 1 Oct 1870—1 Oct 1870:
First British postcard - halfpenny post
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