 1864 - 1870 (6 years)
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| 1 | 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 Mar 1864: The Great Sheffield Flood over 250 died when a new dam broke while it was being filled for the first time
- 20 Aug 1864: Red Cross established Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention
- 8 Dec 1864: Clifton Suspension Bridge over the River Avon officially opened
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| 2 | 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: First concrete roads built in Britain
- 14 Apr 1865: End of American Civil War slavery abolished in USA
- 14 Apr 1865: Abraham Lincoln assassinated in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth
- 5 Jul 1865: William Booth (1829-1912) founds Salvation Army, in London
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| 3 | 1867 | - 1 Jul 1867: The British North America Act takes effect, creating the Canadian Confederation
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| 4 | 1868 | - 1868: Last convicts landed in Australia (Western Australia)
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| 5 | 1869 | - 1869: Ball bearings, celluloid, margarine, and washing machines, all invented
- 23 Nov 1869: Cutty Sark launched in Dumbarton
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| 6 | 1870 | - 1870: GPO takes over the privately-owned Telegraph Companies (nationalised)
- 1870: Dr Thomas Barnardo opens his first home for destitute children
- 1870: Water closets come into wide use
- 1870: Diamonds discovered in Kimberley, South Africa
- 1 Oct 1870: First British postcard halfpenny post
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