Events

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Type	Date Span	Title Sort ascending
Foreign	Thu, January 1, 1852	Abolition of slavery in Columbia completed
US/the World	Mon, July 15, 1867	Abdülaziz I of Turkey becomes the first Ottoman Emperor to visit the United Kingdom.
Legal/Political	Sat, February 4, 1860	Aaron Stevens found guilty in Virginia for his part in Harpers Ferry Raid
Crime/Disasters	Wed, May 27, 1863	A well-behaved mob lynches a horse thief and murderer in the town square in Kokomo, Indiana
Crime/Disasters	Fri, September 21, 1866	A very early frost disrupts the grain harvest in much of the eastern United States.
Battles/Soldiers	Tue, December 8, 1863	A Union winter cavalry raid departs its West Virginia base and marches south to cut communications
Foreign	Tue, September 12, 1848	A unified Swiss Confederation is formed
US/the World	Fri, November 8, 1861	A U.S. warship intercepts and boards a British mail ship off Cuba to arrest Confederate diplomats
Crime/Disasters	Fri, September 16, 1864	A tugboat race in New York's East River ends in tragedy when one vessels bursts its boilers, killing four
Crime/Disasters	Thu, July 20, 1865	A transport ship sinks shortly after leaving port in North Carolina, drowning seventeen soldiers
Science/Technology	Wed, June 11, 1862 - Thu, June 12, 1862	A total eclipse of the Moon late in the evening is visible across much of the United States
Crime/Disasters	Sat, January 16, 1858	A tornado strikes the city and port of New Orleans
Battles/Soldiers	Mon, April 30, 1860	A thousand Navajo launch an attack on Fort Defiance in New Mexico
Personal		A supporter of the women's suffrage movement, Tubman speaks at the 1896 Rochester Convention
Battles/Soldiers	Wed, June 19, 1867	A strong U.S. naval landing on southern Taiwan to punish Paiwan aboriginals is driven off.
Crime/Disasters	Sat, December 30, 1865	A storm dumps snow over wide areas of the East, from Washington, DC to Boston
Crime/Disasters	Sun, January 28, 1866	A stern-wheeler steamboat explodes and burns on the Arkansas River, killing around 130 people
Crime/Disasters	Sat, May 4, 1867	A steamship is caught in an hurricane on Lake Pontchartrain and all ten people aboard are lost.
Crime/Disasters	Mon, April 1, 1867	A steamboat burns to the waterline on the Mississippi but all aboard have a lucky escape.
Campaigns/Elections	Tue, September 18, 1866 - Wed, September 19, 1866	A Southern Soldier's Convention of Confederate veterans is meeting in Memphis.
Crime/Disasters	Wed, January 3, 1866	A small steamer explodes its boiler in New York Bay and two men are drowned
Science/Technology	Thu, October 19, 1865	A significant lunar eclipse of the Sun is visible in the morning over much of the eastern United States
Crime/Disasters	Sat, September 30, 1865	A severe derailment near Auburn, New York destroys three railroad cars but remarkably kills no-one
Crime/Disasters	Mon, June 27, 1859	A serious railroad accident in Indiana kills dozens when floods wash away tracks
Crime/Disasters	Fri, February 2, 1866	A serious fire in Pennsylvania's oil fields destroys nine wells along Bennehof Run in Venango County
Crime/Disasters	Sun, October 12, 1856	A serious earthquake rocks most of the eastern Mediterranean
Crime/Disasters	Fri, June 30, 1865	A series of storms causes heavy damage to crops, farms, and railroads in northern Iowa
Campaigns/Elections	Tue, March 26, 1861	A secessionist flag flies near the Frankford Arsenal in north-east Philadelphia
US/the World	Mon, May 13, 1861	A royal proclamation from London declares Britain neutral in the American war
Crime/Disasters	Tue, March 26, 1867	A Royal Navy attempt to search on southern Taiwan for American survivors of a massacre is driven off.