A horse-drawn public omnibus was traveling at around nine in the evening towards the city center in Dublin with three male, two females, and a small child as passengers.  Crossing the Portobello Bridge over the Grand Canal, the horses became disturbed and backed the omnibus up through a barrier into a water-filled lock on the Canal.  The driver was dragged to safety but all the passengers and the horses were drowned. (By John Osborne) 

The Lord Mayor of London convened a meeting in his offices to embark on a fund-raising effort to mitigate a massive drought and famine in north-west India that had already killed hundreds of thousands.  The campaign spread across the country, raised £20,000 in a week and at its ending in July 1861, had collected £107,585. (By John Osborne) 

With great ceremony orchestrated by Napoleon III, the body of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte reached its final resting place in a newly completed tomb under the dome of Les Invalides in Paris.  It had been returned to France in 1840 and had rested till then in the Chapel of Saint Jerome, the soldier's chapel of the Invalides.   The new tomb was constructed of red quartzite and rests on a green granite base.  (By John Osborne) 

In London, on the River Thames between the now-traditional course between the Putney and Mortlake bridges, the eighteenth annual Oxford and Cambridge boat race was rowed.  In the eighteenth meeting between the two, the Oxford crew cut an early deficit, took the lead, and won by 200 yards in a time of twenty-three minutes and thirty seconds.  Cambridge still led the series so far in 1861 with ten wins to eight.  (By John Osborne) 

A massive earthquake struck the Mendoza region of Argentina completely destroying the towns Mendoza, San Juan, and St. Louis.  The brief, eight-second tremor began at 8:30 in the evening when most people were at home and a reported eight to ten thousand people died, with thousands more injured.  In Mendoza, scores were killed at evening mass, the prison lost all but eight of its one hundred inmates, and the convent had 120 of its 150 nuns killed.  (By John Osborne)