The Counting Game

[DiplomacyandWarfare]

1861

[Pengwinja]

1862
Battle of Antietam happened in this year. Also, a pretty fire number in general.

[Wattsthematter]

1863: the emancipation proclamation is signed

[FlaviusAetius]

Glad to see this is still going
1864
I'll do something different since there's already been some Civil War stuff! The Third Battle of Nanking a crazy end to a crazy war the Taiping Rebellion, aka that war the guy said he was Jesus' brother and one of the deadliest in history.

[DarthPorg36]

1865 - The American Civil War ends, with a Union victory. The confederacy surrenders at Appomattox, and within the year slavery is officially outlawed throughout the entire United States.

[DiplomacyandWarfare]

1866 - nothing interesting

[Hanging Rook]

1866 - nothing interesting

1866 nothing interesting? I feel strongly encouraged to fill this lack of knowledge.
1866 was year of the battle Königgrätz, a decisive win of the Prussian army over the Austrian army, that shifting the power in Germany from the more diplomatic Austrians to the warmongering Prussians and thus had global long run consequences. This resulted in the „lesser German solution“ with Austria leaving the German Empire forming Austro-Hungarian Empire in the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867

[kingofthepirates]

1868-start of the boshin war

[JustAGuyNamedWill]

1869- Trans-Continental Railroad was completed in the United States

[Jamiet99uk]

1870 is a 1972 drama film, set in Ancient Rome, directed by Alfredo Giannetti and starring Anna Magnani, Marcello Mastroianni, and Osvaldo Ruggieri.

[Wattsthematter]

1*8=7+1

[wintergreen]

1872: Yellowstone becomes the US's first national park

[Pengwinja]

1873: the 287th prime number, and has a sine of .57350535004

[Hanging Rook]

1874- the Austro-Hungarian North Pole expedition give up the Admiral Tegetthoff, which got stuck in the ice southeast of Franz Josef Land. Taking boats on sledges with them, they walked south on the ice for several weeks. When they could see the ship again as the north drift had carried them back, parts of the crew wanted to return to the ship and die there. However, as later painted by Julius Payer, head of the expedition, the captain Carl Weyprecht, took stand in front of the demoralized crew with the bible in the hand, proclaiming never go back. So they tried once more and indeed reached the open sea, where they were found by Russian whalers. After though negotiations, in return for the three boats, two guns and 1200 rubles they where shipped to Norway.

[Wattsthematter]

1875, the first four notes of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"

[wintergreen]

1876: novel about that year's U.S. presidential election

[keladry12]

1877, the year Romania declared independence from the Ottoman empire.

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

1878 Treaty of St. Stephen: After (another) war between Russia and the Ottomans, the latter had to cede Rumania's independence and also recognise Bulgaria as a state with enlarged borders reaching the Aegean Sea. The Berlin Council of 1881 curtailed these borders, cutting Bulgaria from the Sea. The decisions of these two agreements were the seeds from which the Balkan Wars came.

[Jamiet99uk]

The 1879 FA Cup final was contested by Old Etonians and Clapham Rovers at the Kennington Oval in London. Old Etonians won by 1–0, the only goal scored by Charles Clerke.

[Wusti]

1880: On 28 June Victorian police captured bushranger Ned Kelly after a siege at the Glenrowan Inn. The other members of the Kelly Gang — Dan Kelly, Joseph Byrne and Steve Hart — were killed in the siege. The gang was wanted for the murders of three police officers at Stringybark Creek in 1878.