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★09 Jul 1811
British explorer David Thompson posted a notice at the confluence of the Columbia and Snake Rivers, claiming the area for Great Britain.

★19 May 1828
The United States Congress passed the largest tariff in the nation's history, which resulted in severe economic hardship in the American South.

★30 May 1854
The Kansas–Nebraska Act became law, establishing the U.S. territories of Nebraska and Kansas, repealing the 1820 Missouri Compromise, and allowing settlers in those territories to determine if they would permit slavery within their boundaries.

★06 Nov 1856
Scenes of Clerical Life, the first work by English author George Eliot, was submitted for publication.

★30 Jun 1860
Seven months after the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, several prominent British scientists and philosophers participated in an evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum.

★19 Nov 1863
American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

★05 Jul 1865
Royal assent was given to an Act of Parliament allowing the Talyllyn Railway to carry passengers by steam haulage – the first narrow-gauge railway in Britain to do so from the start.

★18 Dec 1867
In Angola, New York, U.S., the last coach of a Lake Shore Railway train derailed, plunged 40 ft down a gully, and caught fire, resulting in approximately 49 deaths.

★24 Mar 1869
The last of Māori leader Tītokowaru's forces surrendered to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising.

★16 Oct 1869
Girton College, one of the 31 constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge and England's first residential college for women, was founded.

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