* 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 – 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 – António José de Almeida, Portuguese politician, 6th President of Portugal ( d. 1929 )

José and Maria had two children, both born in Hermosillo: a son, Sotero Emiliano Leiva Salgado, born in 1863 ( Iglesia Católica, 1863 ), and a daughter, Victoria Leiva Salgado, born in 1866 ( Iglesia Católica, 1866 ).

He was born to Demetrio Yglesias Llorente and Eudoxia Castro Fernandez, whose father was also president, the " Founder of the Republic " José María Castro who served two terms, 1847 – 1849 and 1866 – 1868.

José de Diego y Martínez ( April 16, 1866 – July 16, 1918 ), known as " The Father of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement ", was a statesman, journalist, poet, lawyer, and advocate for Puerto Rico's independence from Spain and from the United States.

* António José de Almeida ( 1866 – 1929 ), sixth president of Portugal

* October 2, 1865-February 2, 1866 ( José María Medina served between the two first terms, but returned power to Crescencio Gómez due to ill health )

On 29 December 1866 it was renamed in honour of General José María Arteaga Magallanes, a 19th-century national hero and governor of the state of Querétaro de Arteaga.

Famously, the Société Linguistique de Paris in 1866 refused to admit any further papers on the subject.

He was already working independently on the construction of two railway stations, at Toulouse and Agen, and in 1866 he was given a contract to oversee the construction of 33 locomotives for the Egyptian government, a profitable but undemanding job in the course of which he visited Egypt, where he visited the Suez Canal which was being constructed by Ferdinand de Lesseps.

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.

Although de Marignac was able to produce tantalum-free niobium on a larger scale by 1866, it was not until the early 20th century that niobium was first used commercially, in incandescent lamp filaments.

* 1866 – Voltairine de Cleyre, American anarchist ( d. 1912 )

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.

Œuvres de Vassily Kandinsky ( 1866 – 1944 ) ( Centre Georges Pompidou ) ISBN 2-85850-262-5

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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 ).

After his term as tutor ended, Gibbs travelled to Europe with his sisters, spending the winter of 1866 – 67 in Paris, where he attended lectures at the Sorbonne and the Collège de France.

It was common practice at the time for most theatres ( other than those in French-speaking communities ) to perform operas in Italian, and an Italian translation of Don Carlos was prepared in the autumn of 1866 by Achille de Lauzières.

An Italian translation of this revised French text, re-using much of the original 1866 translation by de Lauzières, was made by Angelo Zanardini.

These led to the so-called " Offenbachiade ": works including Geneviève de Brabant 1859, Le pont des soupirs 1861, La belle Hélène 1864, Barbe-bleue and La Vie parisienne both 1866, La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein 1867, La Périchole 1868 and Les brigands 1869.

On Belgian territory Neanderthal fossils were discovered at Engis in 1829-30, La Naulette in 1866, Grotte de Spy in 1886, Grotte Scladina in 1993, and Veldwezelt-Hezerwater, some dating back to at least 100, 000BP.

Sarah secured a contract at the Théâtre de L ’ Odéon where she began performing in 1866.

* 1866: Pierre de Marivaux's Le Jeu de l ' Amour et du Hasard ( as Silvia )

He travelled to Vienna in December 1866 to conduct the first complete performance there of La damnation de Faust.

* La Goulue ( Louise Weber ) ( 1866 – 1929 ), Can-can dancer ( she was originally buried in the Cimetière de Pantin )

His works from this period included La belle Hélène ( 1864 ), La vie parisienne ( 1866 ), La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein ( 1867 ) and La Périchole ( 1868 ).