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06/01/1852 |
Underwater telegraph line across the Irish Sea completed |
Foreign |
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09/14/1852 |
The Duke of Wellington dies at Walmer Castle in England |
Foreign |
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09/21/1852 |
Largest warship in the world launched |
Foreign |
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12/28/1852 |
New administration takes office in Great Britain |
Foreign |
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04/18/1853 |
British Prime Minister William Gladstone introduces a landmark budget bill that includes dramatic free trade reforms |
Foreign |
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08/26/1858 |
The Treaty of Yedo is signed between Japan and Britain |
US/the World |
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01/15/1859 |
Postage costs in the United States in 1859, by the numbers |
Business/Industry |
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05/01/1859 |
Prayers of thanksgiving made in all British churches for the success in putting down the Indian Mutiny |
Foreign |
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07/09/1859 |
In Britain a legal judgment confirms that no British subject or company may own or sell slaves abroad |
Slavery/Abolition |
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11/09/1859 |
The Prince of Wales celebrates his eighteenth birthday |
US/the World |
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11/28/1859 |
British sign treaty with Honduras concerning the Mosquito Coast |
US/the World |
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01/23/1860 |
Great Britain and France sign a landmark free trade agreement |
Foreign |
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02/27/1860—02/28/1860 |
Powerful gales wreak havoc across the British Isles and north-west Europe |
Crime/Disasters |
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04/11/1860 |
Switzerland once again protests the transfer of Nice and Savoy from Piedmont-Sardinia to France |
US/the World |
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05/28/1860 |
British gales wreck one hundred and forty-three ships in one day |
Crime/Disasters |
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12/16/1860 |
Emperor Napoleon III drops the requirement that Britons carry passports to enter and travel in France |
US/the World |
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12/17/1860 |
Britain announces the minting of new "pennies," "halfpennies," and "farthings" in bronze |
US/the World |
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12/31/1860—01/01/1861 |
Several nights of heavy gales wreak havoc on shipping around coasts of Britain and northern France |
Crime/Disasters |
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01/04/1861 |
Three fatal railway accidents occur around England on the same day |
Crime/Disasters |
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01/07/1861 |
The Bank of England raises its discount rate as financial disruption in the United States effects Europe |
Business/Industry |
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01/18/1861 |
The Bank of England replenishes its gold reserves as American financial disruption effects Europe |
Business/Industry |
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04/08/1861—04/09/1861 |
Official period of Britain's seventh national census takes place overnight |
US/the World |
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07/17/1861 |
Mexico suspends interest payments on it foreign debts and causes consternation in Europe |
US/the World |
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06/30/1863 |
British government reports a recent nationwide increase in measles and scarlet fever |
US/the World |
