1860s POLITICS & CULTURE.
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| U.S. President Lincoln: 1860-65 | Civil War: 1861-65 |
| Gettysburg Address: 1863 | Emancipation Proclamation: 1863 |
| Free city mail: 1863 | Cheyenne & Arapahoe Massacre: 1864 |
| Chippewa forced out of Minnesota | "In God We Trust" on US coins: 1864 |
| Robert E. Lee | U.S. President Johnson: 1865-68 |
| Passports | Lincoln's Assassination: 1865 |
| First train holdup: 1865 | Thirteenth Amendment: 1865 |
| Ku Klux Klan: 1865 | U.S. purchases Alaska: 1867 |
| U.S. President Grant: 1869 |
| New US territories: Arizona, 1863; Idaho, 1863; Montana, 1864 |
| New US states: West Virginia, 1863; Kansas, Nevada, 1864; Nebraska, 1867 |
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1860s SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY.
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| Linoleum (cork): 1860 | Typewriters: 1860 |
| Internal combustion engine: 1860 | Horse-drawn trams: 1860 |
| Antiseptic surgery | Speed of light measured: 1862 |
| Paper dress patterns: 1863 | Heredity: 1865 |
| Carpet sweepers: 1865 | Railroad sleeping cars: 1865 |
| MIT founded: 1865 | Bicycle manufacturing: 1867 |
| Audio Voice Recording | Benzene rings: 1865 |
| Atlantic cable connected: 1865 | Livingston explores Africa: 1867 |
| Postcards: 1869 | Periodic law table: 1869 |
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1860s SPORTS.
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| Baseball, circa 1860; popularized in Civil War | Competitive skiing: 1860 |
| Football Association: 1863 | Baseball uniforms |
| Roller skating: 1863 | Grand Prix: 1863 |
| Badminton: 1868 | Professional US Baseball Club (Cincinnati Red Stockings): 1868 |
| Bicycle race: 1868 | Intercollegiate football: 1869
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1860s HOUSE PLAN BOOKS.
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1860s COOKBOOKS.
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1860s MUSIC COMPOSITIONS.
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- Brahms
- 1868, Ein deutsches Requiem / Op. 45
- Bruckner
- 1864, Symphony No. 0 / Die Nullte
- Offenbach
- 1864, La Belle Helene, operetta
- 1866, La Vie Parisienne, operetta
- 1867, La Grandeduchesse de Gerolstein, operetta
- Gounod
- 1867, Romeo et Juliette, opera
- Johann Strauss II
- 1867, Blue Danube, waltz
- Tchaikovsky
- 1868, Symphony No. 1
- Verdi
- 1862, La Forza del Destino, opera
- 1867, Don Carlos
- Wagner
- 1865, Tristan und Isolde
- 1868, Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
- 1869, Rheingold, opera
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1860s ART & THEATER.
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1862, Sarah Bernhardt's debut in Racine's "Iphigenie en Aulide."
| | 1865, 1st U.S. major in Fine Arts: Yale University
| | 1867, Japanese Art at Paris World's Fair | | 1868, French Impressionism |
| 1868, Development of French Impressionism
Artists
Degas, Manet, Corot, Ingres, Dore, Rossetti, Whistler, Homer, Monet, Cezanne, Millais, Renoir
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