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Date |
Event(s) |
| 1 | 1851 | - 1851—1861: Victorian gold rush.
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| 2 | 1859 | - 24 Nov 1859: Charles Darwin publishes \'The Origin of Species\'
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| 3 | 1861 | - 1861—1865: American Civil War between the Union and seceding Confederacy.
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| 4 | 1862 | - 20 Apr 1862: First pasteurisation test completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard
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| 5 | 1864 | - 20 Aug 1864: Red Cross established - Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention
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| 6 | 1865 | - 14 Apr 1865: Abraham Lincoln assassinated in Ford\'s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth
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| 7 | 1866 | - 1866: Alfred Nobel patented dynamite
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1859 - 1867 (8 years)