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  • Public executions banned.
  • Benjamin Disraeli becomes Prime Minister for the first time, but loses the election that same year to William Ewart Gladstone.
  • Louisa May Alcott publishes Little Women.
  • The QWERTY keyboard developed.
  • US President Andrew Johnson empeached, Ulysses S. Grant elected as 18th President of the United States.