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Foreign	Wed, September 4, 1850	Brazil outlaws the slave trade, without freeing existing slaves
Education/Culture	Mon, March 28, 1859	Brahms' First Serenade for Orchestra premieres at Hamburg in northern Germany
Education/Culture	Sat, January 22, 1859	Brahms' First Piano Concerto premieres at Hanover in northern Germany
Cultural	Tue, April 17, 1860	Boxer John C. Heenan, "the Benicia Boy," and British champion Tom Sayers fight for a "world championship"
Business/Industry	Mon, July 19, 1858	Boston-built steam yacht delivered to the Viceroy of Egypt
Cultural	Sat, April 28, 1855	Boston Veterinary Institute founded
Crime/Disasters	Mon, January 28, 1861	Boston registered cargo ship bound for Liverpool wrecked on Irish coast and eighteen drown
Campaigns/Elections	Mon, December 10, 1860	Boston elects its first ever Democratic Party mayor
Business/Industry	Tue, January 8, 1856	Borax is discovered in Northern California
Slavery/Abolition	Thu, April 5, 1860	Book-burning takes place in South Carolina during trial of man for circulating anti-slavery literature
Crime/Disasters	Sat, October 19, 1861	Boiler explosion kills two workers in Philadelphia
US/the World	Sun, March 31, 1861	Body of Napoleon Bonaparte reinterred under the great dome of Les Invalides in Paris
Battles/Soldiers	Wed, May 1, 1861	Bodies of 6th Massachusetts soldiers killed in Baltimore return to Boston
Education/Culture	Thu, June 30, 1859	Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope for the first time
Battles/Soldiers	Sun, June 7, 1863	Black soldiers and naval gunfire drive off a Confederate attack on Union supply lines at Milliken's Bend
Business/Industry	Tue, May 17, 1853	Biggest railroad merger to date takes place in New York
Foreign	Thu, November 18, 1858	Big Ben sounds for the first time
Personal	Mon, November 8, 1858	Benjamin Franklin Butler, former Attorney General of the United States, dies in Paris
Campaigns/Elections	Thu, July 26, 1860	Benjamin Butler booed off the stage at Democratic meeting in Lowell, Massachusetts
Crime/Disasters	Fri, February 8, 1861	Beneath the streets of London, a mystery gas kills four sewer workers
Campaigns/Elections	Sun, July 15, 1860	Bell-Everett newspaper in Augusta, Georgia calls the Breckinridge-Lane candidacy the "Suicide Ticket"
Campaigns/Elections	Fri, May 1, 1863	Before a massive crowd in Ohio, Congressman Vallandigham denounces the war and President Lincoln
Battles/Soldiers	Fri, April 12, 1861	Beauregard again demands that Major Anderson surrender Fort Sumter immediately
Cultural	Wed, April 20, 1859	Bayard Taylor, the famous American travel writer, announces he will report exclusively for the New York Mercury
Battles/Soldiers	Fri, June 24, 1859	Battlefield carnage inspires Henri Durant to found what will become the International Red Cross
Battles/Soldiers	Wed, May 11, 1864	Battle of Yellow Tavern, May 11, 1864
Battles/Soldiers	Sun, May 8, 1864 - Sat, May 21, 1864	Battle of Spotsylvania, May 8-21, 1864
Battles/Soldiers	Sun, October 2, 1864	Battle of Saltville, October 2, 1864
Battles/Soldiers	Sun, July 26, 1863	Battle of Salineville, July 26, 1863
Battles/Soldiers	Fri, May 13, 1864 - Sun, May 15, 1864	Battle of Resaca, May 13-15, 1864