1866 in science

In 1866 various scientific and technological events took place, some of which are presented below.

Events

April 22 - approved the charter of the Russian Technical Society .
May 23 - approved the charter of the Russian Historical Society .
July 27 - The Great Eastern company successfully laid a transatlantic telegraph cable between Ireland and North America, after which the transatlantic electric telegraph was launched ^[1] .
Founded Romanian Academy .
A fossilized human skull was discovered in Calaveras, California, USA, allegedly proving the simultaneous existence of humans and mastodons . The find became one of the most famous archaeological falsifications, and an article about it was published in the 11th edition of Encyclopedia Britannica .

The German biologist Ernst Haeckel in his book The General Morphology of Organisms (Generelle Morphologie der Organismen) first proposed the use of the term ecology .
The first issue of the Moscow Mathematical collection has been published .

January 28 - Carl Emil Sishor , American psychologist .
January 29 - Romain Rolland , French writer, Nobel laureate .
February 21 - August Wasserman , German bacteriologist and immunologist . Developed a method for serodiagnosis of syphilis ( Wasserman reaction ).
June 29 - Erich Adikes , German philosopher , professor .
September 29 - Mikhail Sergeevich Grushevsky , Ukrainian historian, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR and the USSR Academy of Sciences (died 1934 ).
December 16 - Daniil Kirillovich Zabolotny , Ukrainian and Soviet bacteriologist , President of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (1928–1929), Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR ( 1929 ).
Vera Balts - one of the first in Russia women soil scientists, geographers.

January 31 - Friedrich Rückert , German , orientalist (born 1788 ).
March 6 - Ignaz Troxler , Swiss physician , philosopher (b. 1780 ).
April 10 - Matvey Matveyevich Gusev , a Russian astronomer , one of the pioneers of astrophysics .
July 20 - Georg Riemann , a German mathematician , one of the creators of non-Euclidean geometry (born 1826 ).
August 3 - Frederick Karl Hermann Kruse , German historian.
September 7 - Alexander Petrovich Zernin , Russian historian, professor at Kharkov University .
October 13 - Hopkins, William , English geologist and mathematician.
November 20 - Otto Karl Berg , German botanist and pharmacologist of Polish origin.
December 1 - George Everest , a Welsh geographer . A year before his death, his name was given to the Pico XV Royal Geographical Society, which is now considered the highest peak of the world, although Everest itself was against this appropriation.
December 29 - Iosif Warshevich , a Polish traveler, botanist and zoologist.