TabsRecord DataPlace Unit Type: Continent Events Life span Type 12/23/1863 Off the Indonesian coast, the Alabama captures and burns an American merchant ship Battles/Soldiers 01/08/1859 Rescuers in New Guinea discover the gruesome fate of hundreds of shipwrecked passengers at the hands of cannibals Crime/Disasters 12/04/1861 U.S.S. Hartford returns home from Asia with four officers who had declared for the Confederacy Battles/Soldiers Major Topics People Places Name Type Afghanistan Nation Burma Nation Cambodia Nation China Nation Cochin China (Vietnam) Nation India Region Israel Nation Japan Nation Korea Nation Laos Nation Middle East Region Persia (Iran) Nation Philippine Islands Region Thailand Nation Turkey Nation Documents Subject Date Title 07/11/1848 Spencer Fullerton Baird, Report of the Curator of the Musuem, July 11, 1848 11/02/1858 New York Times, “Health of New Orleans,” November 2, 1858 03/20/1859 New Orleans (LA) Picayune, “Russia and America,” March 20, 1859 12/10/1860 New York Herald, “The Crisis and Its Solution,” December 10, 1860 Images Asia, 1857, zoomable map South and East Asia, 1866, zoomable map World, globular projection, 1857, zoomable map World, Hemisphere Projections, 1866, zoomable map Bibliography
