<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War" id="mwZA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>: Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom issues a "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_and_the_American_Civil_War" id="mwZQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United Kingdom and the American Civil War">proclamation of neutrality</a>" which recognizes the Confederacy as having belligerent rights.