1862: U.S. Congress outlaws polygamy in the United States.
Homestead Act of 1862 transfered ownership of 270 million acres of public land (formerly native American owned) to private farmers, an area equivalent to 10% of the U.S. Massive government giveaway program.
September 1, 1864: Charlottetown Conference begins, the first of three conferences leading to Confederation of Canada.
April 2: Confederate traitors abandon Richmond, Virgina.
April 9: Traitor Gen. R.E. Lee surrenders to Gen. Ulyssess S. Grant and the U.S. Civil War ends.
April 14, 1865: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln assassinated by conservative southern sympathizer John Wilkes Booth.
June 13: Pres. Johnson announces proclamation for the reconstruction of the American South.
August 5, 1865: Massacre of Yahi by American settlers in California.
October 1865: French government of Louis Napoleon announces withdrawal of French expeditionaary force from Mexico.
November 1866: Chinese nationalist revolutionary Sun Yat-sen is born in Cuiheng village in the Pearl River Delta.
1867: Small wave of Turkish refugees arrive in London fleeing Ottoman Sultan Abdulmecit.
