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

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

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

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.

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

1872: Yellowstone becomes the US's first national park

1*8=7+1

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

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

1868-start of the boshin war

DiplomacyandWarfare wrote: ↑

Sun May 12, 2024 1:01 pm

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

1866 - nothing interesting

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.

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.

1863: the emancipation proclamation is signed

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

1861

1860=1859+0.999999...

1859 = 1858+1

1858, a sequence of notes playable on the valveless bugle, and other non valved brass instruments. In the key of C, these notes would be C4-C5-G4-C5, with 8 indicating the octave of a chord, and 5 the fifth.