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Legal/Political United States Circuit Courts in 1859, by the numbers
Lawmaking/Litigating United States copyright law for photographs passes
Lawmaking/Litigating United States copyright law for photographs signed into law
Business/Industry United States cotton production continues to recover during 1867.
Legal/Political United States District Courts in 1859, by the numbers
Business/Industry United States Gold Coinage in 1859, by the numbers
Battles/Soldiers United States Navy raiding party crosses the Potomac and destroys a Confederate schooner in Dumfries Creek
Lawmaking/Litigating United States Senate confirms Robert Grier's appointment to the Supreme Court
US/the World United States signs a commercial and friendship treaty with Bolivia in La Paz
Lawmaking/Litigating United States signs a commercial treaty with Belgium in Washington, D.C.
Lawmaking/Litigating United States signs extradition treaty with Sweden and Norway
Personal Usher Ferguson Linder dies in Chicago, Illinois
Personal Usher Ferguson Linder is born in Elizabethtown, Kentucky
Legal/Political Utah Territorial Governor proclaims a blanket pardon to end the Mormon War
Education/Culture Verdi's opera "Nabucco" has its United States premiere in New York City
Cultural Verdi's opera Rigoletto premieres in New York City
Campaigns/Elections Vermont Democrats meet to nominate candidates for the fall elections.
Lawmaking/Litigating Vermont passes a new Personal Liberty Law
Lawmaking/Litigating Vermont repeals its Personal Liberty Law
Campaigns/Elections Vermont Republican Convention meets in Rutland and nominates Erastus Fairbanks for governor
Campaigns/Elections Vermont Republicans meet in Montpelier to nominate candidates for the fall elections.
Education/Culture Verses of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" published anonymously in the Atlantic Monthly
Campaigns/Elections Veterans from across the country meet in Philadelphia at the Colored Soldiers' and Sailors' Convention.
Legal/Political Vice-President Andrew Johnson takes the oath as seventeenth President of the United States
Personal Vice-President King dies in Alabama
Legal/Political Vice-President Millard Fillmore takes the oath of office after President Zachary Taylor dies at the White House
US/the World Victor Emanuel II annexes Naples, Sicily, and Umbria and the unification of Italy is almost complete
US/the World Victor Emmanuel II receives a hero's welcome in Florence, the capital of his new province of Tuscany
US/the World Victor Emmanuel II signs the declaration of the new united kingdom of Italy
US/the World Victor Emmanuel of Piedmont becomes King of the Two Sicilies essentially completing the unification of modern Italy