Crime/Disasters |
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Burned out Buffalo grain elevator collapses and kills two clean-up workers |
Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Buchanan's Secretary of the Treasury recommends secession to his home state of Georgia |
Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Buchanan's Secretary of the Interior arrives in North Carolina to lobby that state for secession |
Science/Technology |
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Brunel's Royal Albert Bridge over the Tamar in the west of England is officially opened |
Education/Culture |
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Brooklyn Excelsiors leave on the first baseball tour |
Science/Technology |
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Brooklyn celebrates the completion of its ambitious scheme to supply the city with running water |
Foreign |
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British troops reconquer Dehli |
Foreign |
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British troops defeat the Sikh army at the Battle of Aliwal in northern India |
Foreign |
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British troops defeat Sikh forces at Chilianwala |
US/the World |
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British sign treaty with Honduras concerning the Mosquito Coast |
Crime/Disasters |
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British ship sinks in a Ceylon harbor during a squall |
US/the World |
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British ship Emily St. Pierre seized off the South Carolina coast and sent as a prize to Philadelphia |
Crime/Disasters |
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British ship bound for Australia with 250 souls aboard sinks in the Bay of Biscay and all but 19 are lost |
Science/Technology |
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British scientists estimate the country's coal reserves will last 930 years at present levels of consumption |
Personal |
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British scientist Michael Faraday, inventor of the electric generator, dies at his home near London. |
Foreign |
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British Prime Minister William Gladstone introduces a landmark budget bill that includes dramatic free trade reforms |
Crime/Disasters |
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British passenger ship hits the Nova Scotia coast and is lost along with twenty-seven lives |
US/the World |
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British parliament votes to repeal the Corn Laws |
Crime/Disasters |
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British naval vessel is shipwrecked on the Chinese coast with a very heavy loss of life |
US/the World |
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British naval units bombard and largely destroy the Japanese city of Kagoshima on the island of Kyushu |
US/the World |
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British naval and land units arrive to defend Campobello Island from a Fenian Raid |
Science/Technology |
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British medical researcher Thomas Addison commits suicide at his home in Brighton |
Crime/Disasters |
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British immigrant ship bound for Quebec sinks off Newfoundland with very heavy loss of life |
US/the World |
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British governor of New Zealand declares martial law in dispute with native Maori |
US/the World |
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British Government seizes a newly-built schooner under the Foreign Enlistment Act |
US/the World |
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British government reports a recent nationwide increase in measles and scarlet fever |
Crime/Disasters |
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British gales wreck one hundred and forty-three ships in one day |
Science/Technology |
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British fire the world's first breech-loading rifled cannon in anger for the first time in China |
Personal |
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British colonel implicated in the Jamaican massacres of October 1865 commits suicide |
Religion/Philosophy |
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British clergyman, poet, and founder of the Oxford Movement John Keble dies in southwest England. |