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Campaigns/Elections	Wed, January 5, 1859	Illinois legislature reelects Douglas to the US Senate
Campaigns/Elections	Sat, January 8, 1859	The Kentucky Democratic Party Convention endorses Dred Scott decision, purchase of Cuba, and other Administration policies
Crime/Disasters	Sat, January 8, 1859	Rescuers in New Guinea discover the gruesome fate of hundreds of shipwrecked passengers at the hands of cannibals
Crime/Disasters	Sun, January 9, 1859	Eighty-thousand bushels of rice burn in a Charleston, South Carolina fire
US/the World	Sun, January 9, 1859	American sailors on shore leave riot at the port of Colón in Panama
Crime/Disasters	Mon, January 10, 1859	Sudden freezing weather grips the north-eastern United States
Lawmaking/Litigating	Mon, January 10, 1859	Senator Slidell of Louisiana introduces a bill to appropriate funds for the purchase of Cuba from Spain
Campaigns/Elections	Thu, January 13, 1859	The Connecticut Republican Party Convention meets in New Haven
Business/Industry	Sat, January 15, 1859	Postage costs in the United States in 1859, by the numbers
Education/Culture	Sat, January 15, 1859	The National Portrait Gallery opens to the public in London
Legal/Political	Tue, January 18, 1859	United States Circuit Courts in 1859, by the numbers
Legal/Political	Wed, January 19, 1859	United States District Courts in 1859, by the numbers
Crime/Disasters	Fri, January 21, 1859	In Ohio, the Coshocton County Treasurer's Office is robbed of $20,000
Education/Culture	Sat, January 22, 1859	Brahms' First Piano Concerto premieres at Hanover in northern Germany
Crime/Disasters	Sun, January 23, 1859	Large volcanic eruption begins on the island of Hawaii
Foreign	Sun, January 23, 1859	Nicholas Fabre Geffrard is sworn in a President of Haiti
Foreign	Mon, January 24, 1859	The eastern European provinces of Wallachia and Moldavia are united to form what will be called Romania
Cultural	Tue, January 25, 1859	Scots all over the world celebrate the hundredth anniversary of Robert Burns, their national poet
US/the World	Wed, January 26, 1859	U.S. Commissioner James Bowlin arrives in Paraguay to negotiate a commerce and navigation treaty
Lawmaking/Litigating	Thu, January 27, 1859	Speaker of the House Orr and Congressman Hughes of Indiana exchange insults and almost come to blows in the U.S. Capital
Slavery/Abolition	Thu, January 27, 1859	The 27th Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society is held in Boston
Foreign	Thu, January 27, 1859	Future Kaiser Wilhelm II born in Berlin
Crime/Disasters	Fri, January 28, 1859	Steamship from Norfolk to Baltimore burns with one passenger and a crewman lost
Business/Industry	Fri, January 28, 1859	New York City's Committee on Streets meets to discuss a proposal that the city's telegraph lines be buried underground
Education/Culture	Fri, January 28, 1859	Celebrated historian William H. Prescott dies of a stroke at his home in Boston
US/the World	Sun, January 30, 1859	Prince Napoleon marries Princess Clohilde of Savoy in Turin
Crime/Disasters	Mon, January 31, 1859	Giant lava flow on the island of Hawaii reaches the ocean forty miles from the point of eruption
Education/Culture	Tue, February 1, 1859	George Eliot publishes her best-selling three volume novel Adam Bede
Business/Industry	Tue, February 1, 1859	New decimal standard of weight for grains comes into effect in the Liverpool Corn Exchange
Slavery/Abolition	Tue, February 1, 1859 - Wed, February 2, 1859	The New York State Anti-Slavery Convention meets in Albany and advocates the dissolution of the Union