| Pre-Raphaelite Events | Year | Other Events |
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 Rossetti marries Elizabeth Siddal
|  | Abraham Lincoln elected as sixteenth President of USA
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Hunt's 'Finding of the Saviour in the Temple' exhibited; sold for £5,000, the highest price then paid to a living artist
| 424,000 emigrants from Britain and 914,000 from Ireland to USA in previous ten years
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| | Practical internal combustionengine invented
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Rossetti publishes Early Italian Poets
|  | American Civil War begins
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Hogarth Club dissolved
| First horse-drawn trams in London
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Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and Company founded, with Brown, Burne-Jones and Rossetti also as partners
| Royal Academy of Music founded in London
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| | Prince Albert dies
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| | Daily weather forecasts begin in Britain
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Elizabeth Siddal dies; Rossetti places manuscript poems in her coffin
|  | Lancashire Cotton Famine due to Civil War in America
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Burne-Jones visits Italy with his wife and Ruskin
| International Exhibition in South Kensington; works by Morris's firm and Pre-Raphaelites
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Hunt, Ruskin and others give evidence before the Royal Commission on Fine Arts
|  | Edouard Manet's Déjeuner sur l'herbe outrages crowds at Salon des Refusés, Paris
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Millais elected Royal Academician
| Construction of London underground begins
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| | Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation
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Rossetti visits Paris with Fanny Cornforth, where he meets Manet
|  | Karl Marx forms First International Workingmen's Association
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Dyce dies
| Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace
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| | Louis Pasteur invents pasteurization for wine
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Brown holds retrospective exhibition
|  | Carpet sweepers, ice machines and railway sleeping cars come into use
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| | Abraham Lincoln assassinated
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| | American Civil War ends; 13th Amendment abolishes slavery in the USA
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Morris and Webb decorate Green Dining Room, South Kensington Museum
|  | "Black Friday" on London Stock Exchange
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| | Last cholera epidemic in England
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| | Feodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment
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Sandys begins to use Mary Jones (the actress 'Miss Clive') as a model
|  | British Parliamentary Reform Act extends franchise
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| | First Birmingham Art Gallery opens
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| | Russia sells Alaska to US for $7,200,000
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| | Henrik Ibsen: Peer Gynt
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Morris publishes The Earthly Paradise
|  | William Gladstone becomes British Prime Minister
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Rossetti: 'Fanny Cornforth'
| Opening of Suez Canal
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Sandys's 'Medea' rejected by Royal Academy; Swinburne and others protest and write to The Times; paintng shown in 1869
| Royal Academy moves to Burlington House, Piccadilly
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Martineau dies
|  | Britain abolishes debtors prisons
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Hunt elected to Old Water Colour Society
| Periodic table for classification of elements devised
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Elizabeth Siddal exhumed to recover Rossetti's manuscript
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Rossetti falls out with Sandys and begins a relationship with Jane Morris
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1860s 
