Events

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Battles/Soldiers Mexican troops expel Gaston Raousset and his filibuster followers from the city of Hermosillo in northern Mexico
Battles/Soldiers Gaston Raousset departs Mexico for San Francisco
Business/Industry Efficient telegraph service initiated between London and Paris
Foreign Future emperor born in Japan
Crime/Disasters Sacramento, California suffers a devastating fire
Foreign The Duke of Wellington buried in St. Paul's Cathedral in London
Foreign A French plebiscite confirms popular support for the restoration of the empire
Business/Industry Six tons of bullion from the new Australian goldfields arrives in London
Foreign In Paris, Louis Napoleon declares France an Empire and himself its Emperor
Legal/Political The second session of the 32nd Congress opens in Washington, DC
Legal/Political - The second session of the 32nd Congress is sitting in Washington, DC between early December, 1852 and early March, 1853
Business/Industry The first railroad west of the Mississippi makes its inaugural run
Foreign New administration takes office in Great Britain
Cultural Statue of Andrew Jackson unveiled in Washington, D.C.
Personal Moncure Conway enters Harvard Divinity School
Foreign Mexico's controversial ex-president Antonio López de Santa Anna, living in exile, wins a new presidential election
Religion/Philosophy Ash Wednesday
Commercial The three dollar gold piece is authorised
Legal/Political In Washington DC, the 32nd Congress of the United States finishes its term and adjourns
Legal/Political - Elihu Washburne serves in the United States House of Representatives
Legal/Political William Rufus King sworn in as Vice President in Havana, Cuba
Religion/Philosophy Palm Sunday
Legal/Political President Pierce appoints Isaac Cook as Chicago Postmaster
Crime/Disasters Steamboat from Houston suffers fatal explosion in Galveston Bay
Religion/Philosophy Good Friday
Cultural New York passes a comprehensive truancy law
Personal Vice-President King dies in Alabama
Foreign British Prime Minister William Gladstone introduces a landmark budget bill that includes dramatic free trade reforms
Foreign Russia claims right to protect Christian subjects in the Ottoman Empire
Religion/Philosophy Passover begins