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Battles/Soldiers	Sat, January 5, 1861	Chartered steamship sails from New York City bound for Charleston and the resupply of Fort Sumter
Personal	Tue, July 3, 1860	Charlotte Perkins Gilman born in Hartford, Connecticut
Education/Culture	Wed, August 1, 1860	Charles W. Sanders publishes his "revised, improved, and newly illustrated" edition of school readers
Campaigns/Elections	Tue, December 6, 1859	Charles Robinson elected governor of Kansas in first election held under the Wyandotte Constitution
Personal	Sat, October 10, 1818	Charles Lush Wilson is born in Fairfield County, Connecticut
Personal	Sat, March 9, 1878	Charles Lush Wilson dies in San Antonio, Texas
Campaigns/Elections	Thu, December 14, 1865	Charles Jones Jenkins is inaugurated as the first post-Civil War elected governor of Georgia
Education/Culture	Sat, March 19, 1859	Charles Gounod's opera "Faust" premieres in Paris to luke-warm critical acclaim
Personal	Sun, July 1, 1860	Charles Goodyear dies a poor man in New York City
Education/Culture	Sat, November 9, 1867	Charles Dickens sails from Liverpool for his second visit to the United States.
Education/Culture	Sat, April 30, 1859	Charles Dickens begins publication of his "The Tale of Two Cities"
Education/Culture	Mon, December 2, 1867	Charles Dickens begins his live reading tour of the United States at the Steinway Hall in Boston.
Science/Technology	Thu, November 24, 1859	Charles Darwin's great work on evolution is published in London
Science/Technology	Sat, February 12, 1859	Charles Darwin, busy in the preparation of his great work on the origin of species, celebrates his fiftieth birthday
Science/Technology	Mon, October 10, 1859	Charles Darwin finishes editing his great work on evolution and sends it to the printers
Science/Technology	Wed, May 25, 1859	Charles Darwin begins the final editing of his great work on evolution
Personal	Wed, January 25, 1860	Charles Curtis born in Topeka, Kansas
Commercial	Tue, June 2, 1857	Chain-stitch sewing machine patented in Virginia
Science/Technology	Wed, July 1, 1863	Central Pennsylvania has fifteen hours of daylight today and a Full Moon
Cultural	Thu, November 10, 1859	Centenary of Schiller's birth celebrated in Europe and North America
Education/Culture	Sat, April 23, 1864	Celebrations for the 300th birthday of William Shakespeare are held around the world, but not in Paris
Education/Culture	Fri, January 28, 1859	Celebrated historian William H. Prescott dies of a stroke at his home in Boston
Lawmaking/Litigating	Sat, February 16, 1861	Celebrated extradition case of escaped Missouri slave John Anderson in Canada ends with his release
Personal	Fri, November 23, 1866	Cave Johnson, former Postmaster General of the United States, dies at his home in Tennessee.
Religion/Philosophy	Tue, December 8, 1863	Catholics celebrate the Feast of the Immaculate Conception
Religion/Philosophy	Sun, January 8, 1860	Catholic Bishop of Philadelphia lies in state in his Cathedral
Religion/Philosophy	Thu, January 5, 1860	Catholic Bishop of Philadelphia dies on the street of a stroke aged forty-eight
Religion/Philosophy	Tue, January 10, 1860	Catholic Bishop of Philadelphia buried in St. Peter's Church in the city
Crime/Disasters	Sat, December 23, 1865	Catholic Bishop accosted and wounded by highwaymen near Cincinnati, Ohio
Slavery/Abolition	Tue, January 10, 1860	Cassius Clay speaks for more than three hours from the Capitol steps in Frankfort, Kentucky