Mar 05 Covent Garden Opera House destroyed in a fire

Mar 05 Georgia becomes first state to regulate railroads

Mar 25 A E Burnside patents Burnside carbine

Mar 07 Argentine & Brazilian sign a navigation pact

Mar 26 New South Wales' first first-class game, vs Victoria at Melbourne; New South Wales won

Mar 30 Russia signs Peace of Paris, ending the Crimean War

Aug 10 Hurricane washes away 300 in Louisiana

Sep 14 Battle of San Jacinto, Nicaragua defeats invaders

Feb 20 John Rutledge, Liverpool-New York steamer, hits iceberg; many die

Feb 19 Tin-type camera patented by Hamilton Smith, Gambier OH

Feb 22 First national meeting of the Republican Party (Pittsburgh)

Feb 29 Hostilities in Russo-Turkish War cease

Apr 03 Gunpowder in church explodes killing 4,000 in Rhodos

Apr 11 Battle of Rivas; Costa Rica beats Wm Walker's invading Nicaraguans

Apr 21 The first railroad bridge across Mississippi completed

Apr 21 The first rail train to pass over the mighty Mississippi River between Davenport, Iowa and Rock Island, IL made its journey across a newly completed bridge between the two rail centers.

Apr 29 Peace between England & Russia

Nov 20 CDR Andrew H. Foote lands at Canton, China, with 287 Sailors and Marines to stop attacks by Chinese on U.S. military and civilians.

Dec 28 The birth of Woodrow Wilson, Former (28th) US President

May 19 Senator Charles Sumner, Massachusetts, spoke out against slavery

May 22 Violence in Senate, South Carolina Representative Brooks used a cane on Massachusetts Senator Sumner

May 24 Pottawatomie Massacre took place in Kansas

May 21 Lawrence KS captured, sacked by pro-slavery forces

May 07 Argentine & Brazilian sign a navigation pact

May 06 The birth of Robert Peary, American Artic explorer

May 06 The birth of Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychologist

May 27 Doctor William Palmer found guilty of poisoning

Jul 15 Natal established as a British colony separate from Cape Colony

Jul 26 The birth of George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright

Jul 17 Sunday school excursion train collides killing 46 children (Phila)

Jun 03 Opening of Windsor Branch Railway from Windsor to Windsor Jc., N.S. by Nova Scotia government. This was the oldest constituent of the Dominion Atlantic Railway.

Jun 17 Republican Party opens its first national convention in Philadelphia

Jan 23 Steamer Pacific lost

Jan 08 Dr John A Veatch discovers borax, Tuscan Springs CA

Jan 25 Battle of Seattle; skirmish between settlers &Indians

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