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