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The Housemans of Nidderdale
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 1863 - 1866 (3 years) Submit Photo / Document
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| 1 | 1863 | - 1863—1863: Football Association founded (UK)
- 1863—1863: Opening of state institution for criminally insane at Broadmoor, England
- 10 January 1863—10 January 1863: First section of the London Underground Railway opens
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| 2 | 1864 | - 1864—1864: A man-powered submarine, 'Hunley' sank a Federal steam ship USS Housatonic at the entrance to Charleston harbour in 1864 - the first recorded successful attack by a submarine on a surface ship
- 11 March 1864—11 March 1864: The Great Sheffield Flood - over 250 died when a new dam broke while it was being filled for the first time
- 20 August 1864—20 August 1864: Red Cross established - Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention
- 8 December 1864—8 December 1864: Clifton Suspension Bridge over the River Avon officially opened
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| 3 | 1865 | - 1865—1865: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917) becomes first woman doctor in England [she later became the first woman mayor in England, in Aldeburgh 1908]
- 1865—1865: First concrete roads built in Britain
- 14 April 1865—14 April 1865: End of American Civil War - slavery abolished in USA
- 14 April 1865—14 April 1865: Abraham Lincoln assassinated in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth
- 5 July 1865—5 July 1865: William Booth (1829-1912) founds Salvation Army, in London
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