Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Decades: 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s - 1870s - 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s

Years: 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 - 1871 - 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876

Events

• January 2 - Amadeus I becomes King of Spain.
• January 18 - Germany becomes a country when states of the North German Confederation unite. The King of Prussia becomes the first German Emperor as Wilhelm I.
• January 10 - France surrenders (gives up) to end the Franco-Prussian War
• March 22 - In North Carolina, William Holden is the first American governor (leader of a U.S. state) to be impeached (removed from office)
• March 26 - The Paris Commune takes power in Paris.
• March 29 - The Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.
• April - Stockholms Handelsbank is formed.

Births

• January 17 - David Earl Betty of the North Sea and of Brooksby, British admiral (navy leader) (d. 1936)
• January 30 - Wilfred Lucas, actor (d. 1940)
• February 4 - Friedrich Ebert, president of the Weimar Republic (d. 1925)
• March 5 - Rosa Luxemburg, politician (d. 1919)
• March 27 - Heinrich Mann, speaker and writer (d. 1950)
• May 6 - Christian Morgenstern, author (d. 1914)
• May 27 - Georges Rouault, painter and artist (d. 1958).
• August 19 - Orville Wright of the Wright brothers, Americans who invented the airplane.
• August 29 - Albert Lebrun, French politician (d. 1950)
• September 27 - Grazia Deledda, Sardinian writer - Nobel prize (d. 1936)
• December 13 - Emily Carr, Canadian artist and writer.
• Richard Turner, Canadian soldier with the Royal Canadian Dragoons, who got the Victoria Cross for bravery during the Second Boer War.
• Guangxu, Emperor of the Qing Dynasty in China.

Deaths

• February 20 - Paul Kane, painter
• September 23 - Louis-Joseph Papineau, aged 85, Canadian politician and leader of the Patriotes Rebellion.
• October 18 - Charles Babbage, aged 79, English mathematician and inventor of computing machines.

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