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The Prince of Wales prepares to sail on his tour of Canada and the United States |
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The Prince of Wales relaxes on an Illinois farm |
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The Prince of Wales resumes his American tour, visiting St. Louis, Missouri |
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The Prince of Wales sails from Plymouth Sound for his tour of Canada and the United States |
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The Prince of Wales spends three busy days in New York City |
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The Prince of Wales spends twenty-four hours in Baltimore |
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The Prince of Wales visits Albany, New York |
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The Prince of Wales visits Canada's future capital of Ottawa |
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The Prince of Wales visits Canada's largest and richest city of Montreal |
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The Prince of Wales visits Chicago |
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The Prince of Wales visits Niagara Falls and watches Blondin cross on the high wire |
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The Prince of Wales visits Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
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The Prince of Wales visits Quebec |
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The Prince of Wales visits the tomb of George Washington at Mount Vernon |
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The Prince of Wales' tour moves on to Toronto, capital of Upper Canada |
Battles/Soldiers |
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The private British steam yacht "Deerhound" lands rescued survivors of the raider "Alabama" at Southampton |
Crime/Disasters |
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The probable first ever peacetime daylight bank robbery in American history takes place in Liberty, Missouri |
Lawmaking/Litigating |
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The Provisional Congress of the Confederate States is sitting in Montgomery, Alabama |
Foreign |
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The Prussian monarchy begins to crack down on the independent press by reintroducing censorship laws |
Battles/Soldiers |
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The Prussians win the decisive victory of the Prussia-Austria War at the Battle of Königgrätz/Sadowa. |
Battles/Soldiers |
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The public sees for the first time the series of orders by which President Lincoln took full command of the war |
Cultural |
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The purportedly oldest man in the United States dies in California aged one hundred and twenty |
Slavery/Abolition |
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The Radical Abolition Party holds their first convention in New York |
Personal |
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The Radical Republican former Congressman Henry Winter Davis is buried in Baltimore, Maryland |
Crime/Disasters |
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The railroad bridge at Gray's Ferry near Philadelphia suffers severe fire damage |
Religion/Philosophy |
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The Reformed Dutch Church holds its annual synod in New York City. |
Commercial |
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The Registered Letter authorized |
Commercial |
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The Registered Letter makes its appearance |
Lawmaking/Litigating |
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The regular second session of the 34th Congress opens in Washington, DC |
Slavery/Abolition |
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The Republic of Liberia celebrates the thirteenth anniversary of its independence |