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1863 Manila earthquake

The 1863 Manila earthquake was a destructive magnitude 6.5 earthquake that struck Manila and Luzon on the evening of June 3, 1863, collapsing the Manila Cathedral and most Intramuros churches.

1863 Rhodes earthquake

The 1863 Rhodes earthquake was a large earthquake, estimated at magnitude 7.5, that struck Rhodes and Kos on 22 April 1863, destroying 13 villages and killing about 224 people.

1864 Manokwari earthquake

The 1864 Manokwari earthquake was a magnitude 7.8 earthquake and tsunami that struck Dore Bay and Mansinam island near Manokwari, New Guinea, killing about 250 people in May 1864.

1864 United States presidential election

1864 U.S. presidential election: Abraham Lincoln (National Union) re-elected over Democrat George B. McClellan, 212-21 electoral votes, 55% popular vote, during the Civil War; eleven Confederate states did not participate.

1864 United States presidential election in New York

1864 United States presidential election in New York: Abraham Lincoln beat George B. McClellan 368,735 to 361,986 votes (50.5% to 49.5%), a 6,749-vote margin, winning all 33 of New York's electoral votes.

1865 and 1866 Great Eastern transatlantic cable expeditions

The 1865 and 1866 Great Eastern transatlantic cable expeditions used Brunel's giant steamship Great Eastern to lay the first working telegraph cables across the Atlantic.

Oct 22, 2026

1865 cholera epidemic in Tunisia

The 1865 cholera epidemic in Tunisia was the Fourth Cholera Pandemic's Mediterranean spread in 1865, which the Regency of Tunis escaped despite pilgrims arriving from Mecca.

18650 battery

The 18650 is a standardized cylindrical lithium-ion rechargeable cell measuring 18 by 65 mm, long the dominant format for laptop packs, power tools, flashlights, and early Tesla vehicles.

1866

1866: the year of the Austro-Prussian (Seven Weeks') War, decided at Königgrätz on 3 July; German Confederation dissolved by the Peace of Prague, Prussia annexed Hanover, Kurhessen, Nassau, Frankfurt; also Nobel's dynamite and Mendel's pea experiments.

1866 Goynuk earthquake

The 1866 Goynuk earthquake was a magnitude 7.2 earthquake that struck the Göynük Valley in eastern Anatolia on 12 May 1866, causing heavy damage and about 675 deaths.

1867

1867: the year of the Alaska Purchase ($7.2 million), Canadian Confederation, the Austro-Hungarian Compromise creating the Dual Monarchy, the North German Confederation, Emperor Meiji's accession, and Marx's Das Kapital.

1867 Cephalonia earthquake

The 1867 Cephalonia earthquake was a magnitude 7.4 earthquake that struck the Greek Ionian island of Cephalonia on 4 February 1867, destroying most of the town of Lixouri and killing 224 people.

1867 Chilung (Keelung) earthquake

The 1867 Chilung (Keelung) earthquake was a magnitude-7.0 offshore earthquake that struck northern Taiwan in December 1867, generating a destructive tsunami that killed hundreds of people.

Oct 20, 2026

1867 Deiphobus

1867 Deiphobus is a large Jupiter Trojan asteroid sharing Jupiter's orbit 60 degrees behind the planet, one of the next ten largest known Trojans at about 120 km.

1867 Izmir earthquake

The 1867 Izmir earthquake, more precisely the 7 March 1867 Lesvos earthquake, was a destructive magnitude 6.7 to 7.0 shock that destroyed most towns on Lesvos and killed hundreds.

1868

1868: the year of the Meiji Restoration in Japan, Andrew Johnson's impeachment and acquittal, the Fourteenth Amendment's ratification, Spain's Glorious Revolution, Cuba's Ten Years' War, and the discovery of helium.

1868 Arica earthquake

The 1868 Arica earthquake was a megathrust earthquake of magnitude around 9 that struck near Arica, then Peruvian and now Chilean, on 13 August 1868.

1868 Democratic National Convention

The 1868 Democratic National Convention met at Tammany Hall in New York City in July 1868, nominating Horatio Seymour for president and Frank P. Blair for vice president.

1868 San Pablo earthquake

The 1868 San Pablo earthquake, usually called the Ibarra earthquake (terremoto de Ibarra), struck Imbabura province in northern Ecuador on 16 August 1868, destroying Ibarra, Otavalo, and other towns and killing about 15,000 people.

1868 Thersites

1868 Thersites (2008 P-L) is a Jupiter Trojan asteroid discovered 24 September 1960 by C. J. van Houten and I. van Houten-Groeneveld at Palomar, named for the Greek warrior who urged ending the siege of Troy; rotation period 10.47520 h.

1868 United States presidential election

1868 United States presidential election: Republican Ulysses S. Grant defeated Democrat Horatio Seymour, 214 to 80 electoral votes and 52.7 percent of the popular vote, in the first post-Civil War election with Black suffrage in the South.

1868 United States presidential election in New York

In the 1868 United States presidential election in New York, Democratic nominee and former governor Horatio Seymour narrowly won the state's 33 electoral votes over Ulysses S. Grant.

1869

1869: the year the Suez Canal opened (Nov 17), the U.S. transcontinental railroad was completed (May 10), and Mendeleev published the first periodic table; also Grant's inauguration, Wyoming women's suffrage, and the founding of the Knights of Labor.

1869 Philoctetes

1869 Philoctetes is a large Jupiter Trojan asteroid about 23 kilometers wide, discovered in 1960 and named for the Greek archer of the Trojan War.

187 (slang)

187 is American slang for murder, from Section 187 of the California Penal Code. Popularized by 1992's "Deep Cover" and West Coast hip-hop; not a ten-code, and official only in California.

187 Lamberta

187 Lamberta (A878 GB) is a large dark C/Ch-type main-belt asteroid discovered 11 April 1878 by J. Coggia at Marseilles, named for Johann Heinrich Lambert; diameter about 131-141 km, rotation 10.67 h, density near 1.3-1.7 g/cm3.

Sep 19, 2026

187 Strassenbande (group)

187 Strassenbande is a German gangsta-rap crew from Hamburg consisting of rappers Bonez MC, Gzuz, Maxwell, LX, and Sa4, known for multiple number-1 German albums and members' criminal convictions.

1870

The year 1870, dominated by the Franco-Prussian War begun 19 July, saw the fall of Napoleon III, the Third Republic proclaimed 4 September, Rome's capture completing Italian unification, the Metropolitan Museum's incorporation, and the start of the first golden age of globalization.

1870 Batang earthquake

The 1870 Batang earthquake was a magnitude 7¼ strike-slip earthquake that struck Batang in western Sichuan, China, on 11 April 1870, killing about 2,300 people and rupturing the entire Batang fault.