Lawmaking/Litigating |
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William Walker and his companions are indicted in New Orleans under the Neutrality Laws |
Crime/Disasters |
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Yale students and local volunteer firemen battle in New Haven and a young fireman is fatally shot |
Religion/Philosophy |
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A fourteen-year old girl gathering wood near Lourdes in rural France encounters the first of her visions of "a Lady." |
Crime/Disasters |
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The New York Insane Asylum on Blackwell's Island is destroyed by fire but no lives are lost |
Personal |
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William Guerrier of the Ward and Guerrier Company dies in an explosion in Wyoming |
Religion/Philosophy |
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Ash Wednesday |
Personal |
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Millard Fillmore marries Mrs. Caroline Carmichael McIntosh in Albany, New York |
Crime/Disasters |
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The Pacific Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri burns with significant loss of life |
Foreign |
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The Government falls in Britain; Lord Palmerston's Coalition gives way to the Earl of Derby's Conservatives |
Crime/Disasters |
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Merchant ship wrecked off Long Island, New York with no survivors amongst its crew |
Business/Industry |
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First burglar alarm installed |
Crime/Disasters |
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In Greece, a large earthquake destroys much of the ancient city of Corinth |
Personal |
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John Kintzing Kane, the U.S. District Judge who ruled against Passmore Williamson in the Jane Johnson case, dies in Philadelphia |
Cultural |
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The Virginia Washington Monument is unveiled in Richmond with Crawford's equestrian statue of Washington as its centerpiece |
Religion/Philosophy |
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First Sunday in Lent |
Foreign |
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Jose Desiderio Valverde becomes the new President of the Dominican Republic |
Commercial |
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The metallic tie for cotton bales patented |
Personal |
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Commodore Perry dies at his home in New York City |
Foreign |
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The two year sporadic revolt in Peru finally ends and peace returns to Peruvian politics |
Legal/Political |
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President Buchanan reappoints Isaac Cook as Chicago Postmaster |
Commercial |
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Street letter box patented in Philadelphia |
Foreign |
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Civil war erupts in Mexico |
Foreign |
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Felice Orsini and Guiseppe Pieri, unsuccessful assassins of Napoleon III, are executed in Paris |
Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Governor Banks of Massachusetts signs the order removing Judge Edward Greely Loring as Judge of Probate for Suffolk County |
Science/Technology |
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First day of Spring |
Business/Industry |
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The Cable Car is patented in Philadelphia |
Personal |
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Thomas B. Cuming, twice governor of Nebraska Territory, dies in office aged thirty. |
Business/Industry |
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The first pencil with attached eraser patented in Philadelphia |
Business/Industry |
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New railroad completed linking Jackson, Mississippi with New Orleans |
Religion/Philosophy |
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Good Friday |