* John Anderson ( archbishop of Moosonee ) ( 1866 – 1943 ), Anglican Church of Canada metropolitan bishop

A number of well-known people were educated at Dumfries Academy, among them Henry Duncan, founder of the world's first commercial savings bank, Sir James Anderson, who captained the SS Great Eastern on the Transatlantic telegraph cable laying voyages in 1865 and 1866, James Matthew Barrie, author of Peter Pan, missionary Jane Haining, international diplomat Alexander Knox Helm, John Laurie, actor ( Private Fraser in Dad's Army ), artist Robin Philipson, singer John Hanson, Alex Graham, cartoonist best known for the Fred Basset series and Jock Wishart, who in 1998 set a new world record for circumnavigating the globe in a powered vessel.

* Jehemiah Cleveland, Green-Wood Cemetery: A History from 1838 to 1864 Anderson and Archer ( 1866 )

Five attempts to lay the cable were made over a nine-year period – one in 1857, two in 1858, one in 1865, and one in 1866 – before lasting connections were finally achieved with the 1866 cable and the repaired 1865 cable by Isambard Kingdom Brunel's ship the SS Great Eastern, captained by Sir James Anderson.

Born in Magee, New York in 1866, Anderson earned his PhD in 1897 at Cornell University.

Anderson served less than five months, until January 8, 1866.

* William Anderson ( Scottish writer ) ( 1805 – 1866 ), Scottish miscellaneous writer

* John Anderson Fraser ( 1866 – 1960 ), Canadian Member of Parliament from British Columbia

According to Major Anderson, who visited the site in 1866, the well has " a narrow opening, just wide enough to allow the body of a man to pass through with arms uplifted, and this narrow neck, which is about 4 ft. long, opens into the well itself, which is cylindrically shaped, and opens about 7 ft. 6 in.

" Labelled " L. du Chien " ( Dog Lake ) on Anderson Map, 1867 ; labelled " Du Chien L ." on Trutch maps, 1866 and 1871.

* August 27-Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, daughter of George du Maurier and mother of the " Lost Boys " ( born 1866 )

** David Charles Davies ( museum director ), ( 1866 – 1928 ), Director of Field Museum of Natural History

The present theatre on the site was designed by Edward Davies, and opened in 1866.

In 1863 Davies returned to work as an agent for a sugarcane plantation, but left again when his contract expired in 1866.

Sylvia Jocelyn Llewelyn Davies ( 25 November 1866 – 27 August 1910 ), née Sylvia du Maurier, was the mother of the boys who served as the inspiration for Peter Pan and the other children of J. M. Barrie's stories of Neverland.

The result was a submarine weapon, the Minenschiff ( mine ship ), the first self-propelled torpedo, officially presented to the Austrian Imperial Naval commission on December 21, 1866.

The result was a submarine weapon, the Minenschiff, the first real self-propelled torpedo, officially presented to the Imperial Naval commission on December 21, 1866.

Despite the allure of a newly lucrative law practice, there was little hesitancy on Garfield's part in deciding to stand for re-election in 1866, due primarily to the urgency presented by Reconstruction.

Braddon also founded Belgravia magazine ( 1866 ), which presented readers with serialised sensation novels, poems, travel narratives, and biographies, as well as essays on fashion, history and science.

He presented a paper on his work to the newly formed Aeronautical Society of Great Britain in 1866, and decided to prove it by building the world's first wind tunnel in 1871.

Carlyle's niece, Mrs. Alexander Carlyle, presented a note written by Carlyle in 1866 stating that the volume should not be published.

His more serious novels include Madelon ( 1863 ), L ' Infâme ( 1867 ), the three that form the trilogy of the Vieille Roche ( 1866 ), and Le roman d ' un brave homme ( 1880 ) – a kind of counterblast to the view of the French workman presented in Émile Zola's L ' Assommoir.

The comptroller and auditor-general ( C & AG ) role was first created in the United Kingdom by the Exchequer and Audit Departments Act 1866 which combined the functions of the comptroller-general of the exchequer, ( who had authorised the issue of public monies to departments since 1834 ) with those of the commissioners of audit, ( who had traditionally presented the government accounts to the treasury ).

On 15 December 1866, Bismarck presented a proposal to the representatives of the allied governments.

Vaux recruited Olmsted and formally presented their proposal in January, 1866 and it was accepted in May, with work commencing in June.

Lady Howland was presented to Queen Victoria in 1866, on the occasion of the London Conference on Confederation.

In 1866, the theatre presented Henry Irving's first big success in London as Rawdon Scudamore in Hunted Down ; or, The Two Lives of Mary Leigh, by Dion Boucicault.

The Edinburgh Gazette of 17 November 1896 announces " INTIMATION is hereby given that the Reverend THOMAS ANGUS MORRISON, Minister of the Parish of Kirkintilloch, in the Presbytery of Glasgow and County of Dumbarton, has, under and by virtue of " The Glebe Lands ( Scotland ) Act, 1866 ," presented a ; Petition to the Lords of Council and Session, Commissioners for the Plantation of Kirks and Valuation of Teinds, for authority to Feu the GLEBE OF KIRKINTILLOCH ; and that an Interlocutor has been pronounced therein in the following terms ...." After depositing £ 400 with the " Lord of the Manor " or " Patron " T Angus Morrison becomes Minister of St Mary's.

In 1866 Royal was added to Braemar Highland Society and in 1906 the Duke of Fife presented of Mar Estate to the Society and The Princess Royal and Duke of Fife Memorial Park, the current home of the Braemar Gathering, was created.

Stuart was a delegate to the National Convention of Conservatives at Philadelphia in 1866, and Stuart presented credentials as a Member-elect to the 39th Congress in 1865 but was not admitted.

In 1866 he presented a bill favoring Italy's participation in the construction of the St. Gotthard Tunnel.

In 1866, he presented the New Zealand Parliament with a ceremonial mace similar to the one used in the British House of Commons.

In 1866 John Alexander Reina Newlands, presented a paper that first proposed a periodic law.

This resulted in Minenschiff, the first self-propelled ( locomotive ) torpedo, officially presented to the Austrian Imperial Naval commission on 21 December 1866.

Degree from Brown University and Rhode Island presented him with a sword of honor in July 1866.

Éric Alfred Leslie Satie () ( 17 May 1866 – Paris, 1 July 1925 ; signed his name Erik Satie after 1884 ) was a French composer and pianist.

General components of replacement treaties signed in 1866 include:

Replacement treaties signed in 1866 contained provisions for:

In July 1866 Bizet signed another contract with Carvalho, for La jolie fille de Perth, the libretto for which, by J. H.

In 1866 Italy signed alliance with Prussia against Austria.

A treaty was signed at Thaba Busiu in April 1866, but war again broke out in 1867, and the Free State attracted to its side a large number of adventurers from all parts of South Africa.

The ministry, now at one, resigned ; Baden announced her withdrawal from the German Confederation ; and on August 17, 1866 signed a treaty of peace and alliance with Prussia.

In 1866 the Austro-Prussian War broke out, and during the critical weeks which followed the attempt of Napoleon to intervene between Prussia and Austria, he accompanied the Prussian headquarters in the advance on Vienna, and during a visit to Vienna he helped to arrange the preliminaries of the armistice signed at Nikolsburg.

On May 12, 1864, the Gobierno Civil Superior of the Islands approved the creation of the new town while Her Most Catholic Majesty Queen Isabela II signed the Royal Order creating the new parish of Perez-Dasmariñas on October 21, 1866.

In 1867 ( preface signed October 1866 ), Walker published a tunebook entitled Christian Harmony, in which he adopted a seven shape notation.

King Ludwig II signed an alliance with Prussia on 22 August 1866, effectively relinquishing Bavarian independence.

It was signed into law on July 23, 1866 by President Andrew Johnson and ultimately had the effect of preventing him from appointing any justices to the Supreme Court.

In 1866, President Andrew Johnson authorized the formation of a force of Indian scouts when he signed the Indian Scout Enlistment Act.

Five stayed in use until 1966 because of a contract signed by the Midland in 1866 to provide shunting engines to Staveley Ironworks for 100 years.