The American champion Seneca Indian Louis Bennett, who ran under the name "Deerfoot," finished his remarkable first season in England with a dead-heat against 20-year old English champion Edward Mills over eight miles at the Hackney Wick track in London.  This was a reprise of his first race of the tour when he lost against Mills at the same track more than three months before.  In the interim, the crowd-pulling Native American had won all thirteen races against the best athletes in the country.  He continued his tour in 1862 and 1863. (By John Osborne) 

The American champion Seneca Indian Louis Bennett, who ran under the name "Deerfoot," competed against 20-year old English star athlete Edward Mills in the first race of his year stay in Britain.  Running over 41 laps at the Hackney Wick track in London, neither runner came into the race in top condition and Mills won by around thirty feet. Deerfoot's effort, nevertheless, along with his six foot frame - big for a runner - and costume of bare chest, an eagle feather, bead jewelry, and moccasins ensured his future popularity in England.  (By John Osborne) 

At the Fashion Course on Long Island, a ten-mile race was run between two visiting British athletes and two Americans, Albert Smith and the Seneca Indian Louis Bennett, who raced under the name "Deerfoot."  Jack White, the "Gateshead Clipper" and the fastest man in Britain, outlasted Deerfoot and won the race in a time of just under an hour, jogging the last mile.  Deerfoot impressed the British promoter, however, and signed him for a tour of England. (By John Osborne) 

Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, had died of typhoid fever nine days before.  He was interred temporarily in the House of Brunswick vault in St. George's Chapel on the grounds of Windsor Castle.  The ceremony was relatively limited and private; the Prince of Wales was the chief mourner.  The devastated Queen Victoria did not attend, having begun her years of personal mourning and seclusion. Albert was reburied in the new Royal Mausoleum at Frogmore, near Windsor, in 1871.  (By John Osborne) 

Prince Albert, the husband of Queen Victoria, died at the age of forty-two after a sudden attack of typhoid fever at ten minutes to eleven p.m. in the Blue Room at Windsor Castle.  Albert, the father of Victoria's nine children, had shown ill-health for much of the year.  The death of the popular, innovative and reform-minded consort sent Queen Victoria into a mourning that lasted years.  He was buried temporarily in St. George's Chapel and then in 1871 at the family mausoleum at Frogmore near Windsor Castle.  (By John Osborne)