1865
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In April 1865, the Fifth Doctor, Peri Brown and Erimem visited the United States as the American Civil War was drawing to a close. (PROSE: Blood and Hope)
On 9 April, the Fifth Doctor prevented U.S. President Abraham Lincoln from being assassinated in Richmond, Virginia by Aaron Eddowes. (PROSE: Blood and Hope) On the 14th, Lincoln was mortally wounded in Ford's Theatre in Washington DC by John Wilkes Booth. (AUDIO: Assassin in the Limelight) He survived until the following morning.[source needed]
The First Doctor, Vicki Pallister, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright visited China. (PROSE: The Eleventh Tiger)
The first transatlantic telegraph cables were laid by Lord Kelvin. (PROSE: Evolution)
Ian Chesterton's paternal great-grandfather Major William "Will" Chesterton had been transferred from India to China by this year. (PROSE: The Eleventh Tiger)
