1866 - Wikipedia As of the start of 1866, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923 Fisk University, a historically black university, is established in Nashville, Tennessee The last issue of the abolitionist magazine The Liberator is published
1866 Archives - HISTORY 1866: Discover what happened in this year with HISTORY’s summaries of major events, anniversaries, famous births and notable deaths
Civil Rights Act of 1866 - Encyclopedia Britannica The bill, which later became the Civil Rights Act of 1866, was part of a Reconstruction-era Republican legislative program designed to shore up the objectives of the Freedmen’s Bureau Bill (passed in March 1865) and implement the intentions of the Thirteenth Amendment (ratified in December 1865)