Events

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Type Title
Legal/Political The 33rd Congress ends its first session in Washington, DC
Crime/Disasters A Mexican firing squad executes French adventurer Gaston Raousset in Guaymas, Sonora
Slavery/Abolition - Moncure Conway serves as minister at Unitarian Church in Washington, D.C.
Religion/Philosophy Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement
Legal/Political - Fifth National Women's Rights Convention held in Philadelphia
Foreign Florence Nightingale and a group of 38 British nurses arrive in Constantinople
Legal/Political Election Day
Religion/Philosophy First Sunday in Advent
Legal/Political The second session of the 33rd Congress opens in Washington, DC
Legal/Political - The second session of the 33rd Congress is sitting in Washington, DC between early December and early March
Personal - Returning to Dorchester County again, Tubman attempts to bring her brothers to freedom
Business/Industry The first railway service across the isthmus of Panama opens
Foreign Ethiopian nobleman Ras Kassa crowns himself Emperor Tewodros (Theodore) II
Cultural World's first women's hospital organized in New York City
Cultural The Agricultural College of Michigan chartered in Lansing, Michigan
Cultural Verdi's opera Rigoletto premieres in New York City
Religion/Philosophy Ash Wednesday
Lawmaking/Litigating The United States establishes a Court of Claims
Religion/Philosophy First Sunday in Lent
Legal/Political In Washington DC, the 33rd Congress of the United States finishes its term and adjourns
Commercial The Registered Letter authorized
Lawmaking/Litigating Judges appointed for the new U.S. Court of Claims
Battles/Soldiers Military camels arrive in Texas
Legal/Political - Samuel Galloway serves in the Thirty-fourth US Congress
Legal/Political - Thomas Langrell Harris serves in the United States House of Representatives
Lawmaking/Litigating Three Washburn brothers sit in the Thirty-Fourth Congress
Legal/Political - Lyman Trumbull serves in the United States Senate
Business/Industry The Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge opens for rail traffic
Science/Technology First day of Spring
Science/Technology Kerosene patented in the United States