Birthdays
Augustus Frank
Turns 33 on this date
Henry Byrd Lewis
Turns 33 on this date
John Ritchie
Turns 42 on this date
Henry Robinson Torbert
Turns 25 on this date
Elijah Catlin Wadhams
Turns 34 on this date
Events
| US/the World | Estafania, Queen of Portugal, dies of diptheria in Lisbon, aged twenty-two | 07/17/1859 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating | The convention charged with creating a Kansas State Constitution is meeting in Wyandotte, Kansas |
07/06/1859 to 07/28/1859 |
| Business/Industry | The sternwheeler "Chippewa" reaches to within twelve miles of Fort Benton on the Upper Missouri | 07/17/1859 |
Documents
| Newspaper | New York Herald, “Conflagration in the Pike’s Peak Goldmines,” July 17, 1859 | 07/17/1859 |