Austro-Prussian War
A seven-week war decides who will unite Germany
In the summer of 1866 Prussia and Italy fought Austria and her German allies; the war was decided at Sadowa (Königgrätz) on 3 July. The German Confederation was dissolved, Prussia annexed Hanover, Hesse-Kassel, Nassau and Frankfurt and formed the North German Confederation, and Italy gained Venetia.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1858 Treaty of Aigun — 8 years earlier
- 1861 Emancipation of the serfs in Russia — 5 years earlier
- 1864 End of the Caucasian War and the Circassian expulsion — 2 years earlier
- 1867 Alaska Purchase — 1 year later
- 1869 Tolstoy's War and Peace — 3 years later
Middle East
- 1876–1878 The first Ottoman constitution — 10 years later
Africa
- 1847 Liberia declares independence — 19 years earlier
- 1869 Opening of the Suez Canal — 3 years later
- 1879 Battle of Isandlwana — 13 years later
- 1882 Britain occupies Egypt — 16 years later
- 1885 The Mahdists take Khartoum — 19 years later
Asia
- 1853–1854 Commodore Perry's Black Ships — 13 years earlier
- 1856–1860 Second Opium War — 10 years earlier
- 1868 Meiji Restoration — 2 years later
- 1883 Eruption of Krakatoa — 17 years later
- 1885 Founding of the Indian National Congress — 19 years later
Americas
- 1864–1870 Paraguayan War — 2 years earlier
- 1865 Assassination of Abraham Lincoln — 1 year earlier
- 1867 Canadian Confederation — 1 year later
- 1876 Invention of the telephone — 10 years later
- 1879 Edison's incandescent lamp — 13 years later
Oceania
- 1851 The Australian gold rushes — 15 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Charles Darwin (aged 57)
- Karl Marx (aged 48)
- Queen Victoria (aged 47)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (aged 45)
- Leo Tolstoy (aged 38)
- Dmitri Mendeleev (aged 32)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (aged 26)
- Thomas Edison (aged 19)
- Vincent van Gogh (aged 13)
- Nikola Tesla (aged 10)