Events

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Type	Date Span	Title Sort ascending
Education/Culture	Mon, April 23, 1866	Carlotta De Berg, celebrated equestrienne circus performer, makes her American debut in New York City
US/the World	Sat, June 16, 1860	Carlist pretender Don Carlos, Count Montemolin retracts his renunciation of Spanish throne
US/the World	Mon, April 23, 1860	Carlist pretender Don Carlos, Count Montemolin gives up his claim to be rightful King of Spain
Foreign	Tue, April 3, 1860	Carlist forces land in Catalonia and declare the pretender Don Carlos as rightful King of Spain
Battles/Soldiers	Thu, September 1, 1864	Career soldier Absalom Baird wins the Medal of Honor, leading a bayonet charge at Jonesborough
Battles/Soldiers	Sat, May 3, 1862	Captured blockade runner packed with munitions arrives in New York harbor as a U.S. Navy prize
Battles/Soldiers	Fri, October 25, 1861	Captured blockade runner arrives at Philadelphia Naval Yard - her cargo includes 400,000 Cuban cigars
Legal/Political	Fri, August 27, 1858	Captured American slaveship arrives in Charleston Harbor with 318 slaves aboard
Crime/Disasters	Sat, January 21, 1860	Captain of the giant steamship Great Eastern drowns in a boating accident
Battles/Soldiers	Wed, January 2, 1861	Captain Charles Stone takes up his duties at the head of the District of Columbia Militia
Battles/Soldiers	Fri, May 9, 1862	Captain Charles H. Davis replaces Commodore A.H. Foote as commander of the Union's Mississippi Flotilla
US/the World	Wed, November 9, 1859	Canadians meet in a convention at Toronto to discuss federation
Crime/Disasters	Sun, June 14, 1863	Canadian passenger ship wrecks on Nova Scotia coast after crossing Atlantic, all aboard saved
Crime/Disasters	Sun, February 19, 1860	Canadian mail steamship lost off Nova Scotia with all two hundred people aboard
US/the World	Tue, July 2, 1867	Canada's new Governor-General invites Sir John A. MacDonald to form a federal coalition government.
Business/Industry	Mon, November 21, 1859	Canada's Grand Trunk Railway links Montreal with Detroit
US/the World	Mon, July 1, 1867	Canada becomes a Dominion, its provinces united in a federal parliamentary structure under the British Crown.
Campaigns/Elections	Wed, September 26, 1860	Campaigning in Kansas, Senator Seward receives a hero's welcome at Lawrence
US/the World	Thu, June 6, 1861	Camillo, Count Cavour, Prime Minister and architect of the new Kingdom of Italy dies in Turin aged fifty
US/the World	Tue, August 11, 1863	Cambodia becomes a protectorate of France, extending French influence in southeast Asia.
Crime/Disasters	Fri, September 16, 1859	California Senator David Broderick dies of a wound received in a duel three days earlier over slavery in the state
Education/Culture	Sat, March 17, 1860	California enacts law to protect young dancing girls
Campaigns/Elections	Sat, July 28, 1860	California Breckinridge Democrats organize in San Francisco
Lawmaking/Litigating	Tue, October 30, 1866	By almost unanimous legislation, Vermont becomes the sixth state to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment
Crime/Disasters	Fri, June 18, 1858	Business district in Mariposa burns
Legal/Political	Sat, March 4, 1865 - Fri, March 3, 1871	Burton Chauncey Cook serves in the United States House of Representatives
Personal	Tue, May 11, 1819	Burton Chauncey Cook is born in Pittsford, New York
Personal	Sat, August 18, 1894	Burton Chauncey Cook dies in Evanston, Illinois
Education/Culture	Fri, January 25, 1861	Burns Night, the birthday of Scottish poet Robert Burns celebrated around the globe
Legal/Political	Thu, November 17, 1859	Burning haystack panics Virginians anticipating an attempt to rescue John Brown