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Events
Politics and World Affairs
Economy
Science and Technology
- Alfred Nobel is dynamite ago in Germany.
- James Clerk Maxwell published the equations of the relationship between electricity and magnetism and shows that light is a form of electromagnetic radiation.
- Gregor Mendel formulates Mendel's laws, the basis of genetics.
- Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev created the periodic system (regardless of Lothar von Meyer).
Culture
- Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy publishes War and Peace.
- Lewis Carroll published Alice in Wonderland.
- Karl Marx published Das Kapital (1867 ).
Personalities
- Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria- Hungary in
- William I, King of Prussia
- Otto von Bismarck, Prime Minister of Prussia
- Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy
- Isabella II, Queen of Spain
- Napoleon III. , King of France
- Pius IX. , Pope
- Alexander II, Tsar of Russia
- Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Andrew Johnson, President of the United States
- Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States
- Ulysses S. Grant, American general
- Naser ad -Din Shah, Shah of Persia
- Kōmei, Emperor of Japan
- Cixi, Empress Dowager of China
Film and entertainment terms
Numerous films, novels and computer games have the American Civil War (1861-1865) on the subject. Among the most famous films include:
- Gone with the Wind ( 1939 )
- Glory ( inter alia with Morgan Freeman )
- Gettysburg ( epic film with Martin Sheen as General Lee )
- North and South ( series)