The Peabody Institute building is dedicated in Baltimore, Maryland

George Peabody, an American living in London, had endowed an music institute for his home city in 1857. The Peabody Institute was incorporated on March 9, 1858 and its cornerstone was laid at the corner of Charles and Monument Streets in Baltimore, Maryland. The building was not completed until after the Civil War and was dedicated on October 25, 1866. (By John Osborne)
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The cornerstone of the Peabody Institute is laid in Baltimore, Maryland

George Peabody, an American living in London, had endowed an music institute for his home city in 1857. The Peabody Institute was incorporated on March 9, 1858 and its cornerstone was laid at the corner of Charles and Monument Streets in Baltimore, Maryland. The building was not completed until after the Civil War and was dedicated on October 25, 1866. (By John Osborne)
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The British execute Tatya Tope, one of the last and most intrepid leaders of the Indian Rebellion to be captured

Ram Chandra Pandurang Tope, better known to his enemies as Tatya Tope, or Tantia Topee, was a civilian adviser to Nana Sahib, one of the early leaders of the Indian Rebellion. As the fighting progressed Tope developed into a brilliant guerrilla leader, always one step ahead of his British pursuers and with a powerful capacity to rebound after defeat. He was active for twenty-three months, long after all other resistance was quelled, and was only captured through betrayal. He was tried by British Army court-martial a week after his capture, found guilty, and hanged on April 18, 1859. (By John Osborne)
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The British court-martial Tatya Tope, one of the last leaders of the Indian Rebellion to be captured

Ram Chandra Pandurang Tope, better known to his enemies as Tatya Tope, or Tantia Topee, was a civilian adviser to Nana Sahib, one of the early leaders of the Indian Rebellion. As the fighting progressed Tope developed into a brilliant guerrilla leader, always one step ahead of his British pursuers and with a powerful capacity to rebound after defeat. He was active for twenty-three months, long after all other resistance was quelled, and was only captured through betrayal. He was tried by British Army court-martial a week after his capture, found guilty, and hanged on April 18, 1859. (By John Osborne)

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Tatya Tope, one of the last leaders of the Indian Rebellion, is captured in north central India

Ram Chandra Pandurang Tope, better known to his enemies as Tatya Tope, or Tantia Topee, was a civilian adviser to Nana Sahib, one of the early leaders of the Indian Rebellion. As the fighting progressed Tope developed into a brilliant guerrilla leader, always one step ahead of his British pursuers and with a powerful capacity to rebound after defeat. He was active for twenty-three months, long after all other resistance was quelled, and was only captured through betrayal. He was tried by British Army court-martial a week after his capture, found guilty, and hanged on April 18, 1859. (By John Osborne)

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Brunel's Royal Albert Bridge over the Tamar in the west of England is officially opened

Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Royal Albert Bridge spanned the Tamar River and carried the Cornwall Railway between Devon and Cornwall for the first time. Still in use today as a rail bridge, Prince Albert opened the structure just five months before Brunel died and remains one of the legendary engineer's great triumphs. An innovative combination of suspension and arch with only one central pier, the bridge covers 2240 feet and used 5000 tons of wrought and cast iron in its construction. (By John Osborne)
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Courteous Spanish diplomat commits suicide in Blenheim Park in England

Don Antonio Arrom de Ayala, the Spanish consul to Australia, committed suicide in the Duke of Marlborough's Blenheim Park at Woodstock in England. On his person was a long letter addressed to the Duke apologizing for the intrusion.  He wrote, "It may be a childish feeling but one cannot blow one's brains out in a common road... So I have not found another proper place to die decently than your handsome park, and you must bear the inconvenience of a dead man in your grounds. I mean no offense." (By John Osborne)
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Prayers of thanksgiving made in all British churches for the success in putting down the Indian Mutiny

By royal recommendation, prayers were offered in all churches in the kingdom, thanking God for the victories in India of British forces and for the return of tranquility and full British rule to the sub-continent. The rebellion had begun in May 1857 and progressed with great slaughter on both sides until July 1858 when major fighting ended. The hunting down of rebels and a rigorous British policy of bloody retaliation against rebel areas continued for some months after. (By John Osborne)
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Dozens of miners are drowned when a mine floods in South Wales

At the Mair Colliery near Neath in South Wales, the working of a new shaft breached a wall that released into the mine the hundreds of thousands of gallons accumulated from old workings over the years. With the whole mine flooding rapidly, frantic efforts were made to bring the eighty-one workers and their pit-ponies to the surface. Fifty-five men and two ponies escaped; twenty-six other men and all their animals were drowned. (By John Osborne)
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Rescuers in New Guinea discover the gruesome fate of hundreds of shipwrecked passengers at the hands of cannibals

In September 1858, a ship from Hong Kong to Sydney carrying Chinese workers for the gold-fields was wrecked on Rossel, what is now called Yela, an island in Papua New Guinea. The crew were able to land the 327 men, women, and children among the passengers and then left in a surviving ship's boat to summon help. When this help arrived three months later, rescuers found only one man left alive who reported native inhabitants of the island had captured and methodically killed and eaten all his companions, about five each day. (By John Osborne)
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