06/29/1861 |
Famous British poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning dies in Italy after a lingering illness |
Education/Culture |
06/02/1858 |
Giovanni Donati discovers his comet |
Science/Technology |
04/20/1860 |
In Italy, the Archbishop of Florence publicly blesses recently excommunicated King Victor Emmanuel II |
US/the World |
04/27/1859 |
Italian nationalists in Florence overthrow the Hapsburg Grand Duke Leopold II of Tuscany |
US/the World |
05/10/1860 |
Theodore Parker, famous abolitionist and member of the "Secret Six," dies in Florence, Italy |
Personal |
04/16/1860 |
Victor Emmanuel II receives a hero's welcome in Florence, the capital of his new province of Tuscany |
US/the World |