Mar 08 The Niagara Suspension Bridge opens, linking Canada and the US; the world's first suspension bridge built to carry trains
Mar 19 The vehicular suspension bridge across the Niagara Gorge (built in 1848) is strengthened for the passage of railway trains. The original wooden trusses were replaced by steel in 1880.
Mar 27 Abraham Gesner patents kerosene (can jet fuel be far behind?)
Mar 08 A train crosses first US railway suspension bridge, Niagara Falls
Mar 08 A train passed over the first railway suspension bridge -- at Niagara Falls, NY.
Mar 13 The birth of Percival Lowell, American astronomer
Mar 03 Registration of letters authorized by Congress
Mar 24 Manhattan Kansas founded as New Boston KS
Mar 15 Louisiana establishes first health board to regulate quarantine
Mar 02 Aleksandr Romanov becomes tsar of Russia
Mar 03 Congress approves $30,000 to test camels for military use
Aug 09 Battle of Acapulco during Mexican Liberal uprising
Feb 24 US Court of Claims established for cases against the government
Feb 04 Soldiers shoot Jewish families in Coro, Venezuela
Feb 03 Wisconsin Supreme Court declares US Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional
Feb 05 British government of Palmerston forms
Feb 10 US citizenship laws amended all children of US parents born abroad granted US citizenship
Apr 28 First veterinary college in US incorporated in Boston
Apr 06 J Chacornac discovers asteroid #34 Circe
Apr 21 First train crosses Miss River's first bridge, Rock Is Ill-Davenport Ia
Apr 19 R Luther discovers asteroid #35 Leukothea
Dec 25 Soldiers of the Royal Canadian Rifles at the Tête du Pont barracks clear ice from Lake Ontario and use field hockey sticks and lacrosse balls to play what is reputed to be the first game of ice hockey
Dec 03 The Great Western Railway "branch" between Hamilton and Toronto is opened to traffic.
May 05 NYC regains Castle Clinton, to be used for immigration
May 03 Antwerp-Rotterdam railway opens
