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The first railway in the British Cape Colony in South Africa is built.
Spain sends troops into Morocco and gains some territorial concessions and indemnities.
Control of Timor is divided between the Dutch and the Portuguese.
19 October Abolitionist John Brown leads a group of white and black abolitionists in a raid on the armory at Harpers Ferry (present-day West Virginia) in an attempt to foment a slave uprising. The raid fails, and Brown is later executed.
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