* 1866 – Austro-Prussian War is decided at the Battle of Königgratz, resulting in Prussia taking over as the prominent German nation from Austria.

In 1866, the legislature approved a bill including Buckhannon among the choices for capital, but officials decided the river was not wide enough to accommodate desired commerce.

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.

In 1866 it was decided to close the almshouses in the City and remove the residents from there to join those already at Barnet.

When writing The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication in 1866, Darwin intended to include a chapter including man in his theory, but the book became too big and he decided to write a separate " short essay " on ape ancestry, sexual selection and human expression, which became The Descent of Man.

Following a competitive examination of 104 guns in 1866, the British decided to adopt the Peabody-derived Martini-Henry with trap-door loading in 1871.

Smetana evidently did not begin the orchestral scoring of The Bartered Bride until, following the successful performance of The Brandenburgers in January 1866, the management of the Provisional Theatre decided to stage the new opera that summer.

He was appointed U. S. Postmaster General by President Abraham Lincoln, and served from 1864 to 1866, leaving the Cabinet after he decided he could no longer support the policies of President Andrew Johnson.

In 1866, without the support of Aaron who was not consulted, the directors decided to move the factory to Melrose and make complete watches there, and Dennison withdrew from the company.

Eight years later, he decided to go and practise as a barrister in Hong Kong, and in 1866 became the colony's attorney general.

After the war, the entire family migrated to Ripley in 1866, where the parents decided opportunities were better than in postwar Kentucky.

When she was one year old her parents, Donald and Mary Ann, decided to move to Wagga Wagga to join her maternal grandparents, the Beatties, who had moved there from Penrith, New South Wales in 1866.

In 1866, he was the president of the council which decided to invite a foreign dynasty to rule Romania.

Although the Italian fleet was larger and more powerful, Tegetthoff decided to engage it after a successful reconnaissance of the Italian base of Ancona on 27 June 1866.

He eventually decided to locate the town at his camp, and on 17 August 1866, after surveyor Charles Wedge drew a draft plan consisting of 106 lots, Roebourne became the first gazetted town in the North West.

Upon hearing this news, Johnny Johnson, Dartmouth class of 1866, decided to donate much of his real estate investments to the Club.

In the early spring of 1866, citizens of Hampshire County decided to form an association to honor the Confederate dead.

The club was formed in October 1866 when members of Swinton Cricket Club decided to take up football in the winter.

After a tropical cyclone hit Calcutta in 1864, and the subsequent famines in 1866 and 1871 due to the failure of the monsoons, it was decided to organize the collection and analysis of meteorological observations under one roof.

The. 50-70 was popular among hunters, as the smaller. 50 which is larger than the. 44 caliber bullet hit harder ( see terminal ballistics ) but the military decided even as early as 1866 that a. 45 caliber bullet would provide increased range, penetration and accuracy.

After the indecisive Battle of Abtao in February 1866, Méndez Núñez decided to take punitive action against South American ports, his first target being the undefended Chilean port of Valparaíso.

In June 1866, while on a visit to Copenhagen, the Tsarevich Alexander asked Dagmar for her hand.

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 his visit to Jerusalem in 1866, Moses Montefiore went to the synagogue, placing a silver breastplate on one of the Torah scrolls.

Although the athletic club had formed a rugby football section in 1866, Fartown was initially used for athletics festivals alterations made in the summer of 1878 meant that rugby could begin at the start of the 1878 / 79 season with the visit of Manchester Rangers on 2 November.

French writer Victor Hugo poetized in Toilers of the Sea admiring the scenery after a visit in 1866 that the Lysefjord was the most terrifying of the ocean reefs.

Subsequent to that visit, he published in 1866 his translation of Gisli the Outlaw from the Icelandic.

On his return he was made Egypt's first minister of public works, and was distinguished for the energy which he threw into the creation of a new department ; but in 1866 he was made minister of foreign affairs, and at once went on a special mission to Constantinople, where he succeeded in the other two projects that had been left in abeyance since his last visit.

In the following decade, tributes included visit to his grave after a match played on July 5, 1866 between the Excelsiors and the Nationals of Washington, and teams taking Creighton's name in his honor.

From 1866 to 1868, to recuperate from the strain of his war service, Meigs visited Europe, and from 1875 to 1876 made another visit to study the organization of European armies.

In fact, it was named in the mid 19th century to commemorate the visit of the Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Navy Rear Admiral George Fowler Hastings of the Royal Navy from 1866 – 1869.

* 1866 – The Spanish Navy bombs the harbor of Valparaíso, Chile.

During his career, Prat had taken part in several major naval engagements, including battles at Papudo ( a coastal city north of Valparaíso ) ( 1865 ), and at the Battle of Abtao ( 1866 ), at the islet of Abtao across from Chiloé Island.

However, a campaign to reconquer Peru and Chile during the Chincha Islands War ( 1864 – 1866 ) proved disastrous and Spain suffered defeat before the determined South American powers.

The submarine Flach was commissioned in 1865 by the Chilean government during the war of Chile and Peru against Spain ( 1864 – 1866 ).

Bolivia and Chile resolved their territorial disputes in 1866.

In 1874, Chile and Bolivia replaced the 1866 boundary treaty with a treaty granting Bolivia the authority to collect all tax revenue between the 23rd and 24th parallels, fixing the tax rates on Chilean companies for 25 years and calling for Bolivia to open up.

Born in a wealthy family ( Manuel was the son of Pedro Español González de Candamo y Astorga ( Puerto de Valparaiso, Chile, 30 June 1799-Lima, 22 January 1866 ), Peruvian Ambassador-then the richest man in Peru -, and wife ( 1825 ) María de las Mercedes Iriarte y Odria ); paternal grandson of Alfonso González de Candamo y Prieto ( born in Asturias the son of Gaspar González de Candamo and wife Eulalia Prieto ) and wife Petronila de Astorga y Urizar ( born in Valparaiso ) and maternal grandson of Pedro Ignacio Iriarte y Velasco-Patiño, Mine owner from Huancayo, who bought the Hacienda Lobatón in 1819 and half of the Hacienda Cónsac, and wife Paula Odria y Granados, daughter of the owners of Hacienda Rumichaca Juan Ignacio Odria and wife Manuela Granados, sister of Marcelo Granados ( La Asunción de Mito, 1758-?

National borders in the region had not been clearly agreed until 1866 ; the two countries had negotiated a treaty that established the 24th parallel south as their boundary, and entitled Bolivia and Chile to share in tax revenue on mineral exports out of the territory between the 23rd and 25th parallels.

In 1866, Bolivia and Chile mutually agreed to finance the construction of the Oficinas de Administración y Resguardo de Aduanas (" Offices of Administration and Security of Customs ") with officials of both countries as a way to protect the interests of Chilean workers and for the implementation of the Bolivian government of a tax rate on the export of minerals, primarily salt and guano.

In 1866, the Peruvian Minister to the United States contacted Tucker to arrange an interview in Washington, D. C .. Peru and Chile were at war with Spain, and the Peruvians invited Tucker to join their Navy as a Rear Admiral, bringing with him two staff officers of his choice.

As American Minister to Chile, he was involved in an attempt to arbitrate between the combatants of the Chincha Islands War after the Valparaiso bombardment ( 1866 ).

In 1866 during the Chincha Islands War between Spain, Peru and Chile, he was General Commander of the Spanish fleet in the Pacific.

The Chincha Islands War (, the name changing depending on the nationality of the author ) was a series of coastal and naval battles between Spain and its former colonies of Peru and Chile from 1864 to 1866, that began with Spain's seizure of the guano-rich Chincha Islands, part of a series of attempts by Isabel II of Spain to reassert her country's lost influence in its former South American empire.

The Naval Battle of Abtao took place on February 7, 1866, between a Spanish naval squadron and a combined Peruvian-Chilean fleet, at the island of Abtao in the Gulf of Ancud near Chiloé Archipelago in south-central Chile.

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