First International founded
1864 · Event
British and French trade unionists found the International Workingmen's Association at St Martin's Hall, London; Marx writes its inaugural address and dominates its council.
On these timelines: Master, Economic History, Industrial Revolution, United Kingdom (combined)
Around 1864
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- German unification (1871)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870)
- Bismarck's chancellorship (1871)
- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861)