Mar 18 Dutch Van der Brugghen government resigns
Mar 02 Frederick Cook, New Orleans, patents a cotton-bale metallic tie
Mar 23 Streetcar patented (Eleazer A Gardner of Philadelphia)
Mar 30 Pencil with attached eraser patented (Hyman L Lipman of Philadelphia)
Mar 17 Toronto Ontario St. Patricks Day riot breaks out during parade; one man fatally stabbed
Mar 18 The birth of Rudolf Diesel, German inventor of the Diesel engine
Mar 09 Albert Potts of Philadelphia patents the street mailbox
Aug 21 First Lincoln-Douglas debate (Illinois)
Aug 04 First trans-Atlantic cable completed
Aug 15 Regular mail to the Pacific coast begins
Aug 02 The first street mailboxes-Boston, Mass
Aug 03 Source of the Nile river, Lake Victoria, discovered
Aug 07 Ottawa chosen as the capital of Canada by British Queen Victoria
Aug 01 The first street mailboxes-Boston, Mass
Aug 16 Britain's Queen Victoria telegraphs President James Buchanan
Aug 27 Lincoln and Douglas debate at Freeport, IL.
Aug 05 First transatlantic telegraph cable laid
Sep 01 The first transatlantic cable fails after less than 1 month
Sep 16 First overland mail for California
Sep 28 Donati's comet becomes the first to be photographed
Feb 21 Edwin T Holmes installs first electric burglar alarm (Boston MA)
Feb 11 First apparition of Mary to 14-year-old Bernadette of Lourdes France
Feb 01 Douglas Law goes into effect in British Columbia; miners required to buy licenses to search for gold in the Fraser Valley.
Feb 13 Sir Richard Burton &John Speake explore Lake Tanganyika, Africa
Feb 22 Dion Boucicault's "Jessie Brown," premieres in New York NY
