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| 1 | 1862 | - 1862—1862: Lincoln issues first legal US paper money (Greenbacks)
- 20 April 1862—20 April 1862: First pasteurisation test completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard
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| 2 | 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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| 3 | 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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| 4 | 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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| 5 | 1867 | - 1 July 1867—1 July 1867: The British North America Act takes effect, creating the Canadian Confederation
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| 6 | 1868 | - 1868—1868: Last convicts landed in Australia (Western Australia)
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| 7 | 1869 | - 1869—1869: Ball bearings, celluloid, margarine, and washing machines, all invented
- 23 November 1869—23 November 1869: Cutty Sark launched in Dumbarton
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| 8 | 1870 | - 1870—1870: GPO takes over the privately-owned Telegraph Companies (nationalised)
- 1870—1870: Dr Thomas Barnardo opens his first home for destitute children
- 1870—1870: Water closets come into wide use
- 1870—1870: Diamonds discovered in Kimberley, South Africa
- 1 October 1870—1 October 1870: First British postcard - halfpenny post
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| 9 | 1871 | - 27 March 1871—27 March 1871: First Rugby Football international, England v Scotland, played in Edinburgh
- 29 March 1871—29 March 1871: Opening of Royal Albert Hall, London
- 29 June 1871—29 June 1871: Trades Unions legalised in Britain, but picketing made illegal
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| 10 | 1872 | - 1872—1872: Licensing hours introduced
- 1872—1872: Penalties introduced for failing to register births, marriages & deaths (Eng & Wales)
- 4 December 1872—4 December 1872: American ship 'Mary Celeste' is found abandoned by the British brig 'Dei Gratia' in the Atlantic Ocean
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| 11 | 1874 | - 1874—1874: Factory Act introduces 56-hour week
- 5 April 1874—5 April 1874: Birkenhead Park opened, said to be the first civic public park in the world - features of it later copied in Central Park, New York
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| 12 | 1875 | - 1875—1875: London's main sewage system completed
- 1 January 1875—1 January 1875: Midland Railway abolishes Second Class passenger facilities, leaving First Class and Third Class. Other British railway companies followed during the rest of the year. (Third Class was renamed Second Class in 1956)
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| 13 | 1876 | - 14 February 1876—14 February 1876: Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray each file a patent for the telephone - Bell awarded the rights
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| 14 | 1877 | - 1877—1877: Edison invents microphone and phonograph
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| 15 | 1878 | - 1878—1878: Edison & Swan invent electric lamp
- 1878—1878: Red Flag Act in Britain limits mechanical road vehicles to 4mph
- 1878—1878: CID established at New Scotland Yard
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| 16 | 1879 | - 18 September 1879—18 September 1879: Blackpool illuminations switched on for first time
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1862 - 1879 (17 years) 
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