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Type Title
Foreign The last of Napoleon's Marshals dies in Venice
Cultural Uncle Sam makes his appearance
Campaigns/Elections Coles Bashford sworn in as Republican governor of Wisconsin
Business/Industry Ohio restricts hours for women workers
Foreign Great Britain and Burma go to war
Religion/Philosophy Palm Sunday
Religion/Philosophy Passover begins
Religion/Philosophy Good Friday
Religion/Philosophy Easter Sunday
Cultural New York Women's State Temperance Society founded in Rochester
Foreign Alberdi publishes a proposal for a new Argentine constitution based heavily on the Constitution of the United States
Cultural Compulsory education state law, the first in the nation, signed in Massachusetts
Battles/Soldiers French filibuster Gaston Raoul Raousset arrives in the northern Mexican state of Sonora
Foreign Underwater telegraph line across the Irish Sea completed
Religion/Philosophy Corpus Christi celebrated
Cultural Jew's Hospital of New York City incorporated
Personal Henry Clay dies in Washington
Dickinsonian Dickinson College holds annual commencement ceremonies
Crime/Disasters Fire in Montreal, Canada leaves thousands homeless
Commercial Mexico rejects Daniel Webster's request to allow a U.S. company to build a railroad across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec
Foreign Justo José de Urquiza revokes a February decree confiscating the property of former Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas
Legal/Political The 32nd Congress ends its first session in Washington, DC
Personal Joseph Medill marries Katherine Patrick
Legal/Political - Third National Women's Rights Convention held in Syracuse
Religion/Philosophy Rosh Hashana
Foreign The Duke of Wellington dies at Walmer Castle in England
Foreign French adventurer Gaston Raousset declares Sonora (Mexico) to be an independent republic
Foreign Largest warship in the world launched
Religion/Philosophy Yom Kippur
Crime/Disasters American ship bound for New Orleans founders off the coast of Ireland