* 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 – Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, Belgian mathematician ( d. 1962 )

* 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

* 1866 – George Everest, Welsh surveyor and namesake of Mt.

* George Ade ( 1866 – 1944 ), Fables in Slang, etc.

Herbert George " H. G ." Wells ( 21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946 ) was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre.

Herbert George Wells was born at Atlas House, 46 High Street, Bromley, in the county of Kent, on 21 September 1866.

‘ Wells, Herbert George ( 1866 – 1946 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 ; online edn, Jan 2011 accessed 21 Mar 2012.

* 1866 – George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English financier ( d. 1923 )

* 1790 – George Everest, Welsh surveyor and geographer ( d. 1866 )

* April 5 – George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English financier of Egyptian excavations ( b. 1866 )

Examples include Vancouver, British Columbia, named after the explorer George Vancouver ; and Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, originally called Isbister's Settlement but renamed after Queen Victoria's husband and consort in 1866.

* George Edmund Badger ( 1795 – 1866 ), U. S. Senator from North Carolina

In 1866, the American George Ham Page founded the first European condensed milk factory in Cham, which later merged with Nestlé.

** George Huntington ( Steuben County, NY ) ( 1796 – 1866 ), New York politician

Parke – Davis was founded in Detroit in 1866, by Hervey Parke and George Davis.

Colonel Sir George Everest (; 4 July 1790 – 1 December 1866 ) was a Welsh surveyor, geographer and Surveyor-General of India from 1830 to 1843.

* George Crook Hayes ( 1864 – 1866 ).

Restored remains of the 1866 Oregon Iron Company furnace, George Rogers Park.

In the fall of 1866, Seward joined Johnson, as well as Ulysses S. Grant and the General George Armstrong Custer, along with several other administration figures, on the president's ill-fated " Swing Around the Circle " campaign trip.

* George H. Walker ( 1811 – 1866 ), mayor and cofounder of Milwaukee, Wisconsin

In July, 1866, bonds were voted to help raise the necessary funds, and not long after a building was purchased from George J. Eldridge, and used for county offices and all court house purposes.

Arriving there from California in 1866, the English settler George Lovelock ( 1824 – 1907 ) bought the squatters ' right for 320 acres and got with it the oldest water rights on the Humboldt River.

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Marcus Peck ; 1825 – 1826, William F. Averill ; 1827 – 1833, Marcus Peck ; 1834, Peter F. Westervelt ; 1835 – 1837, John I. Vosburgh ; 1838 – 1839 ; John H. Gregory ; 1840, Calvin Sliter ; 1841, John H. Gregory ; 1842 – 1843, Solomon Coons ; 1844, Reuben A. Thomas ; 1845, S. V. R. Cole ; 1846, David Fonda ; 1847, David Luce ; 1848, Lorenzo M. Lown ; 1849 – 1850, William L. Stewart, jr .; 1851, Jacob Boyce ; 1852, W. H. Wicks ; 1853, Joseph Alden ; 1854, William H. Lyons ; 1855, Samuel D. Seymour ; 1856, Harmon Westfall ; 1857, George Sliter ; 1858, Albert H. Dutcher ; 1859 – 1861, George Sliter ; 1862, D. E. Barnes ; 1863, William H. Ford ; 1864, B. M. Wilkinson ; 1865, Jeffrey P. Thomas ; 1866 – 1867, David Horton ;

* George Harold Smith ( 1866 – 1936 ), New Zealand politician