* Herbert Austin ( 1866 – 1941 ), British founder of the Austin Motor Company

* 1866 – The Grand Army of the Republic, an American patriotic organization composed of Union veterans of the American Civil War, is founded.

* 1866 – Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau, Canadian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church ( d. 1931 )

* 1866 – Princess Viktoria of Prussia ( d. 1929 )

* 1866 – Allen Lard, American golfer ( death date unknown )

* 1866 – Giovanni Agnelli, Italian businessman, founded Fiat S. p. A ( d. 1945 )

* 1866 – Gábor Klauzál, Hungarian politician ( b. 1804 )

* 1866 – Matthew Henson, American explorer ( d. 1955 )

* 1866 – José de Diego, Puerto Rican statesman and journalist ( d. 1918 )

* 1866 – Italo Santelli, Italian fencer ( d. 1945 )

* 1866 – Jacinto Benavente, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1954 )

* 1866 – Henrik Sillem, Dutch sports shooter ( d. 1907 )

* Alexander John Cuza, prince of Romania ( 1859 – 1866 )

* 1866 – Austro-Prussian War ends with the Treaty of Prague.

* 1866 – Anne Sullivan, American teacher, instructor and companion of Helen Keller ( d. 1936 )

* 1866 – Ernest Starling, British physiologist ( d. 1927 )

* 1866 – Italy and Prussia ally against the Austrian Empire.

* 1866 – The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ( ASPCA ) is founded in New York City by Henry Bergh.

He married fourthly at the Dolmabahçe Palace, Constantinople, on 21 September 1866 to Georgian HH Hayranidil Kadın Efendi ( Kars, 2 November 1846 – Ortaköy Palace, Constantinople, 26 November 1898 ), and had two children.

The Earl of Derby, Prime Minister 1852, 1858 – 59, 1866 – 68

Charles Erdman ( 1866 – 1960 ) advocated apostolic authorship and wrote that only the Apostle John fits the image of the author derived from the text.

#** Marie Laetitia Eugénie Catherine Adélaïde Bonaparte ( 1866 – 1926 )

Le déjeuner sur l ' herbe, ( right section ), with Gustave Courbet, 1865 – 1866, Musée d ' Orsay, Paris, France | Paris

" Hymn to Proserpine " is a poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne, published in 1866.

The Triumph of Time is a poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne, published in 1866.

From 1866 to 1867, Haeckel made an extended journey to the Canary Islands with Hermann Fol and during this period, met with Charles Darwin, in 1866 at Down House in Kent, Thomas Huxley and Charles Lyell.

When the Austro-Prussian War broke out in 1866, Albert then Crown Prince ( German: Kronprinz ), took up the command of the Saxon forces opposing the Prussian Army of Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia.

The phrase introduces the 1866 poem Hymn to Proserpine, which was Algernon Charles Swinburne's elaboration of what a philosophic pagan might have felt at the triumph of Christianity.

* The standard history of the state, though only through the Civil War, is Charles Gayarré's History of Louisiana ( various editions, culminating in 1866, 4 vols., with a posthumous and further expanded edition in 1885 ).

Important literary precursors of Modernism were: Fyodor Dostoyevsky ( 1821 – 81 ) ( Crime and Punishment ( 1866 ), The Brothers Karamazov ( 1880 ); Walt Whitman ( 1819 – 92 ) ( Leaves of Grass ) ( 1855 – 91 ); Charles Baudelaire ( 1821 – 67 ) ( Les fleurs du mal ), Rimbaud ( 1854 – 91 ) ( Illuminations, 1874 ); August Strindberg ( 1849 – 1912 ), especially his later plays, including, the trilogy To Damascus 1898 – 1901, A Dream Play ( 1902 ), The Ghost Sonata ( 1907 ).

Toward the end of 1866, she joined a painting class taught by Charles Chaplin, a noted genre artist.

The differences between tantalum and niobium were unequivocally demonstrated in 1864 by Christian Wilhelm Blomstrand, and Henri Etienne Sainte-Claire Deville, as well as Louis J. Troost, who determined the formulas of some of the compounds in 1865 and finally by the Swiss chemist Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac in 1866, who all proved that there were only two elements.

* Charles Harrison Mason ( 1866 – 1961 ) The Founder of the Church of God In Christ

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* 1866 – Charles Vintcent, South African cricketer ( d. 1943 )

* 1866 – Charles Nicolle, French bacteriologist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1936 )

Further confirmation came from the Swiss chemist Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac, in 1866, who proved that there were only two elements.

For decades, the commercial technology for separating tantalum from niobium involved the fractional crystallization of potassium heptafluorotantalate away from potassium oxypentafluoroniobate monohydrate, a process that was discovered by Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac in 1866.

* February 28 – Charles Nicolle, French bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1866 )

** Charles Mangin, French general ( b. 1866 )

Though its roots may be traced back as far as the Enlightenment ( Marquis de Sade ) and the Victorian era ( Algernon Charles Swinburne's scandalous Poems and Ballads of 1866 ).

Charles Alcock of the Wanderers was elected to the committee of the FA in 1866, becoming its first full-time secretary and treasurer in 1870.

* Charles Nicolle ( 1866 – 1936 ), bacteriologist who earned the 1928 Nobel Prize in Medicine