Nov 13 The ship "New Era" sinks off NJ coast with loss of 300

Sep 20 British and French defeat Russians at Alma, in the Crimea

Sep 27 The steamship liner Arctic sinks in the Atlantic Ocean, killing 300 people

Jun 29 Gadsden Purchase (parts of Az, NM) from Mexico for $10 million

Jun 10 The U.S. Naval Academy holds its first graduation in Annapolis, Maryland.

Jun 10 Georg F.B. Reiman proposes that space is curved

Dec 01 Armed Diggers prepare for confrontation with troops on Eureka Hill, Victcoria.

Dec 08 Pope Pius IX proclaims Immaculate Conception, makes Mary, free of Original Sin

Dec 26 Wood-pulp paper first exhibited, Buffalo

Dec 15 First street-cleaning machine in US first used in Philadelphia

Dec 15 Philadelphia residents were amazed as the first street cleaning machine was put into operation.

Dec 25 Opening of the Bytown and Prescott Railway between Prescott and Bytown (now Ottawa), 54 miles. First rail service to what is now Canada's Capital. Bytown was renamed Ottawa in 1855 and the railway became the Ottawa and Prescott Railway Company, now part of Canadian Pacific.

Dec 09 Lord Tennyson's poem, "Charge of the Light Brigade," published

Dec 19 Allen Wilson of Conn patents sewing machine to sew curving seams

Dec 30 Pennsylvania Rock Oil Co, first in US, incorporated in NYC

Aug 24 National emigration convention meets in Cleveland

Aug 30 John Fremont issues proclamation freeing slaves of Missouri rebels

Aug 06 Congress passes Confiscation Act

Aug 29 Self-governing windmill patented (Daniel Halladay)

Oct 04 Honest Abe Lincoln made his first great political speech while attending the Illinois State Fair in Springfield.

Oct 17 Miners burn down Eureka Hotel, Ballarat, after court dismisses murder charges against hotelier James Bentley, accused of kicking a young miner to death

Oct 16 The birth of Oscar Wilde, Irish born novelist and playwright

Oct 10 US Assay Office in New York City, NY opens

Oct 25 The Charge of the Light Brigade takes place during the Crimean War.

Oct 25 The infamous 'Charge of the Light Brigade' takes place at Balaklava,during the Crimean War

Oct 17 The Australian newspaper The Age, is published for the first time in Melbourne

Jul 06 The first Republican state convention, Ripon, Wisc

Jul 13 US forces shell & burn San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua

Jul 22 J R Hind discovers asteroid #30 Urania

Jul 12 The birth of George Eastman, American pioneer in photography

Mar 01 SS City of Glasgow leaves Liverpool harbor and is never seen again

Mar 31 Treaty of Kanagawa Commodore Perry forces Japan to opens ports to foreign trade

Mar 31 Treaty of Kanagawa: Commodore Perry forces Japan to opens ports to foreign trade

Mar 20 Republican Party Founded In Ripon, Wisconsin, former members of the Whig political party meet to establish a new political party that would oppose the spread of slavery into the western territories

Mar 08 US Commodore Matthew C Perry's 2nd trip to Japan

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