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Crime/Disasters Burned out Buffalo grain elevator collapses and kills two clean-up workers
Lawmaking/Litigating Buchanan's Secretary of the Treasury recommends secession to his home state of Georgia
Lawmaking/Litigating Buchanan's Secretary of the Interior arrives in North Carolina to lobby that state for secession
Science/Technology Brunel's Royal Albert Bridge over the Tamar in the west of England is officially opened
Education/Culture Brooklyn Excelsiors leave on the first baseball tour
Science/Technology Brooklyn celebrates the completion of its ambitious scheme to supply the city with running water
Foreign British troops reconquer Dehli
Foreign British troops defeat the Sikh army at the Battle of Aliwal in northern India
Foreign British troops defeat Sikh forces at Chilianwala
US/the World British sign treaty with Honduras concerning the Mosquito Coast
Crime/Disasters British ship sinks in a Ceylon harbor during a squall
US/the World British ship Emily St. Pierre seized off the South Carolina coast and sent as a prize to Philadelphia
Crime/Disasters British ship bound for Australia with 250 souls aboard sinks in the Bay of Biscay and all but 19 are lost
Science/Technology British scientists estimate the country's coal reserves will last 930 years at present levels of consumption
Personal British scientist Michael Faraday, inventor of the electric generator, dies at his home near London.
Foreign British Prime Minister William Gladstone introduces a landmark budget bill that includes dramatic free trade reforms
Crime/Disasters British passenger ship hits the Nova Scotia coast and is lost along with twenty-seven lives
US/the World British parliament votes to repeal the Corn Laws
Crime/Disasters British naval vessel is shipwrecked on the Chinese coast with a very heavy loss of life
US/the World - British naval units bombard and largely destroy the Japanese city of Kagoshima on the island of Kyushu
US/the World British naval and land units arrive to defend Campobello Island from a Fenian Raid
Science/Technology British medical researcher Thomas Addison commits suicide at his home in Brighton
Crime/Disasters British immigrant ship bound for Quebec sinks off Newfoundland with very heavy loss of life
US/the World British governor of New Zealand declares martial law in dispute with native Maori
US/the World British Government seizes a newly-built schooner under the Foreign Enlistment Act
US/the World British government reports a recent nationwide increase in measles and scarlet fever
Crime/Disasters British gales wreck one hundred and forty-three ships in one day
Science/Technology British fire the world's first breech-loading rifled cannon in anger for the first time in China
Personal British colonel implicated in the Jamaican massacres of October 1865 commits suicide
Religion/Philosophy British clergyman, poet, and founder of the Oxford Movement John Keble dies in southwest England.