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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." |
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A French plebiscite confirms popular support for the restoration of the empire |
Foreign |
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Alfred Dreyfus, future French artillery officer and Devil's Island prisoner, is born in Alsace |
Foreign |
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Aristide Briand, future wartime leader of France and Nobel Peace prize laureate is born in Nantes |
Personal |
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Atlantic packet returning from France sinks off Nova Scotia and nine seamen drown |
Crime/Disasters |
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Austria demands that Sardinia-Piedmont disarm, and issues a three-day ultimatum |
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Cambodia becomes a protectorate of France, extending French influence in southeast Asia. |
US/the World |
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Count Cavour, prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, assures Switzerland over the transfer of Nice to France |
US/the World |
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Crimean War begins in earnest, as France declares war on Russia |
Foreign |
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Emperor Napoleon III drops the requirement that Britons carry passports to enter and travel in France |
US/the World |
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Emperor Napoleon III initiates free trade reforms in France |
Foreign |
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France tells Austria war on Piedmont-Sardinia would mean war with France |
Foreign |
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French amateur astronomer observes a new planet in our solar system |
Science/Technology |
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French Emperor Napoleon III issues his official declaration of war on the Austrian Empire |
US/the World |
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French Government appropriate ten million francs for a massive reforestation project |
US/the World |
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French president Louis Napoleon Bonaparte abolishes universal suffrage |
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French troops are starting to depart Paris for Italy to confront the Austrians |
Foreign |
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French troops protecting the Papal State order all demonstrations against the Vatican halted |
Foreign |
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Future French president Raymond Poincaré born in Bar-le-Duc in Lorraine |
Personal |
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Great Britain and France sign a landmark free trade agreement |
Foreign |
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Great Power conference proposed in Europe to head off war between Austria and Piedmont-Sardinia |
Foreign |
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Harriet Taylor Mill, wife of and collaborator with John Stuart Mill, dies at Avignon in France |
Personal |
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In France, liberal politicians hold the first in a series of constitutional reform "banquets" |
US/the World |
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In Italy, the inhabitants of Savoy vote in a plebiscite on whether their province will become part of France |
US/the World |
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In Italy, the results of the recent plebiscite in Savoy confirms that the province will become part of France |
US/the World |
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Inhabitants of Nice voting in a plebiscite on whether their district will become part of France |
US/the World |
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Italian nationalists in Florence overthrow the Hapsburg Grand Duke Leopold II of Tuscany |
US/the World |
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Jean Jaurès, the French socialist hero, is born at Castre in south-western France |
Foreign |
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, the leading Neoclassical painter of his day, dies in at his home in France. |
Personal |
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Just arrived in New York City, French billiard champion Claudius Berger gives his first American exhibition |
Education/Culture |
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King Victor-Emmanuel of Piedmont-Sardinia explains the transfer of Nice and Savoy to France |
Foreign |
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Loaded passenger/cargo ship burns in New York's North River |
Crime/Disasters |
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Louis Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from prison in France |
US/the World |
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Louis Napoleon Bonaparte holds a plebiscite confirming French support for his coup d'etat |
Foreign |
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Mexico suspends interest payments on it foreign debts and causes consternation in Europe |
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Piedmont-Sardinia rejects Austria's call to disarm |
Foreign |
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Plans for the plebiscite on the transfer of Nice and Savoy from Piedmont-Sardinia to France are published |
Foreign |
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Powerful gales wreak havoc across the British Isles and north-west Europe |
Crime/Disasters |
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Queen Victoria visits France |
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Several nights of heavy gales wreak havoc on shipping around coasts of Britain and northern France |
Crime/Disasters |
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Switzerland once again protests the transfer of Nice and Savoy from Piedmont-Sardinia to France |
US/the World |
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Switzerland protest the pending French annexation of Savoy |
US/the World |
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The Austrian Empire declares war on Sardinia-Piedmont |
US/the World |
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The Austrian Empire mobilizes in response to the war preparations of Piedmont-Sardinia |
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The Bank of England raises its discount rate as financial disruption in the United States effects Europe |
Business/Industry |
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The French Navy launches the world's first ironclad ocean-going warship |
Science/Technology |
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The Irish future Nobel Prize for Literature winner William Butler Yeats is born in Dublin |
Education/Culture |
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The Italian Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia mobilizes its armed forces for war with Austria |
Foreign |
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The newly purchased Confederate ship "Rappahannock" slips out of its English Channel port at midnight |
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The Swiss Federal Council says Switzerland will defend itself and its neutrality, by force if need be |
Foreign |
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The United States and several European powers sign a joint trade agreement with Japan. |
US/the World |
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Thousands see American emigrant ship founder off French coast |
Crime/Disasters |
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Treaty negotiations successfully conclude the late war between France, Austria, and Piedmont |
US/the World |
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Treaty of Bayonne between France and Spain sets their international borders |
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