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Science/Technology	Fri, July 13, 1866	Off Ireland, the Great Eastern begins her cable laying operation towards Canada.
Lawmaking/Litigating	Mon, July 16, 1866	Uncomfortable with President Johnson's policies, U.S. Attorney General James Speed resigns.
Crime/Disasters	Wed, July 18, 1866	During a violent thunderstorm over Long Island, a boiler explosion destroys a factory and kills a worker.
Business/Industry	Wed, July 18, 1866	In upstate New York, state militia march to suppress anti-rent resistance to evictions.
Lawmaking/Litigating	Thu, July 19, 1866	In Nashville, a special session of the Tennessee Legislature votes to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment.
Campaigns/Elections	Fri, July 20, 1866	Governor Crawford of Kansas appoints Edmund Ross to succeed James H. Lane in the U.S. Senate.
Battles/Soldiers	Fri, July 20, 1866	Austrian and Italian naval units clash at Lissa in the first major fleet confrontation of ironclads.
Science/Technology	Sun, July 22, 1866	The Great Eastern, laying the new Atlantic Cable, passes where the cable broke and was lost in 1865.
Battles/Soldiers	Sun, July 22, 1866	Prussia and Austria agree a cease fire and armistice to end their five week conflict.
Lawmaking/Litigating	Tue, July 24, 1866	In Washington, DC, Tennessee is readmitted to full representation the United States Congress
Battles/Soldiers	Wed, July 25, 1866	David Farragut becomes the United States Navy's first full Admiral.
Battles/Soldiers	Thu, July 26, 1866	At Long Branch, the New Jersey militia parade before the state governor and hundreds of vacationers.
Battles/Soldiers	Thu, July 26, 1866	French troops evacuate Monterrey, Mexico and Republican forces move in.
Science/Technology	Fri, July 27, 1866	The Great Eastern, laying the new Atlantic Cable, arrives in Newfoundland and the cable is connected.
Lawmaking/Litigating	Fri, July 27, 1866	In Washington, D.C., the U.S. Senate authorizes use of the metric system in government departments.
Science/Technology	Sat, July 28, 1866	The new Atlantic Cable transmits and receives its first messages between North America and Europe.
Legal/Political	Sat, July 28, 1866	The first session of the 39th Congress ends in Washington DC
Lawmaking/Litigating	Sat, July 28, 1866	Congress authorizes the size and structure of the peacetime U.S. Army of 76,000 men.
Crime/Disasters	Sun, July 29, 1866 - Sat, August 4, 1866	In London, cholera continues its European assault, killing five thousand in two weeks.
Science/Technology	Mon, July 30, 1866	Queen Victoria and President Buchanan exchange telegraph messages over the new Atlantic Cable.
Crime/Disasters	Mon, July 30, 1866	In New Orleans, a Republican effort to meet in Constitutional Convention results in riots and scores die.
US/the World	Wed, August 1, 1866	On the island of Crete, the local population rises in revolt against the Turkish Empire.
Personal	Wed, August 1, 1866	John Ross, for thirty-eight years Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, dies in Washington, D.C.
Battles/Soldiers	Thu, August 2, 1866	Union General Philip Sheridan calls the mayor of New Orleans "a bad man" and recommends his removal.
Campaigns/Elections	Fri, August 3, 1866	In Portland, Maine, the state's Democrats meet to nominate candidates for the September elections.
Campaigns/Elections	Sat, August 4, 1866	Union war hero George Armstrong Custer becomes the head of the Soldiers and Sailors Union.
Battles/Soldiers	Sat, August 4, 1866	In Mexico, Republican forces enter Tampico.
Crime/Disasters	Sun, August 5, 1866	The convention riots in New Orleans claim more victims as two delegates die from their injuries.
Crime/Disasters	Mon, August 6, 1866	In Ancona harbor, the battle-damaged Italian ironclad "Affondatore" sinks at anchor during a storm.
Campaigns/Elections	Wed, August 8, 1866	Maryland Democrats meet in their nominating convention in Baltimore.