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
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 07 Charles Miller received a patent for the sewing machine that stitches buttonholes!
Mar 28 During the Crimean War, Britain & France declare war on Russia
Mar 07 Charles Miller received a patent for the sewing machine that stitches buttonholes!1862 Battle of Elkhorn Tavern, Day 2, Generals McCulloch &McIntosh killed
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)
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
Feb 22 First meeting of the Republican Party, Michigan
Feb 28 Republican Party formally organized at Ripon WI
Feb 28 Slavery opponents meet in Ripon, WI, calling for a new political group (which became the Republican Party).
Feb 01 Fire destroys Parliament Buildings at Quebec; government transfers to Toronto; hastens the decision to move to Ottawa
Feb 28 The Republican Party is formally organized
Feb 06 Composer R Schumann is saved from suicide attempt into the Rhine
Feb 23 Great-Britain & Orange Free state sign Convention of Bloemfontein
Feb 11 Major streets lit by coal gas for first time
Feb 04 Alvan Bovay proposes the name "Republican Party," Ripon WI
Feb 27 Composer Robert Schumann saved from suicide attempt in Rhine
