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• the Royal Columbian Hospital, the oldest hospital in British Columbia, was built in 1862 during a Gold Rush for $3,396 by the Corps of Royal Engineers and a chain gang?
• the University of Liberia, founded in 1862, is the oldest institute of higher learning in West Africa?
• the Allegheny Arsenal explosion on September 17, 1862 was the single largest civilian disaster during the American Civil War?
• Samuel Andrews (1836–1904) was an English-born chemist and inventor whose request for investment capital to build an oil refinery in 1862 led to a partnership with John D. Rockefeller and the formation of the Standard Oil companies?
• Gnanendramohan Tagore was the first Asian to be called to the bar in England in 1862?
• Brutus de Villeroi was a French engineer who created the USS Alligator, the U.S. Navy's first submarine, in 1862?