Editing 1860s (section)

===Internal conflicts===
[[Image:Thure de Thulstrup - Battle of Antietam.jpg|250px|[[American Civil War]]: [[Battle of Antietam]] by [[Thure de Thulstrup]]|thumb]]
*The '''Federal War''' was a [[civil war]] (1859–1863) in [[Venezuela]] between the [[Conservative Party (Venezuela)|Conservative]] party and the [[Liberal Party (Venezuela)|Liberal]] party over the monopoly the Conservatives held over government positions and land ownership, and their intransigence to granting any reforms. It was the biggest and bloodiest civil war that [[Venezuela]] had since its [[Venezuelan War of Independence|independence]]. Hundreds of thousands died in the violence of the war, or from [[hunger]] or [[disease]], in a country with a population of just over a million people
* [[American Civil War]] fought between the remaining [[United States|United States of America]] under [[President of the United States|President]] [[Abraham Lincoln]] and the self-declared [[Confederate States of America]] under [[President of the Confederate States|President]] [[Jefferson Davis]] (April 12, 1861 – April 9, 1865) and Vice President [[Alexander Stephens]].
** Beginning of the [[Reconstruction era of the United States|Reconstruction]] era under President [[Andrew Johnson]] (1865–1869).
* 1863–64 [[January Uprising]] in the [[Russian Empire]].
* On 19 July 1864 the fall of Nanjing formally ended the 14-year [[Taiping Rebellion]].
* 1862–1877 [[Dungan Revolt (1862–77)|Tongzhi Hui Revolt]] in [[Qing dynasty]] of China.
* 1868–1869 [[Boshin War]] in [[Japan]], fought between the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] and those seeking to return political power to the [[Imperial Court in Kyoto|Imperial Court.]]