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Type	Date Span	Title
Crime/Disasters	Tue, October 18, 1859	Small earthquake strikes San Francisco Bay but with no damage or injuries
Battles/Soldiers	Wed, October 19, 1859	John Brown and his surviving raiders are taken to Charlestown, Virginia under heavy guard
Foreign	Thu, October 20, 1859	With Vietnamese resistance continuing, the French commander in Indo-China asks to be relieved
Lawmaking/Litigating	Thu, October 20, 1859 - Mon, October 24, 1859	John Brown and his fellow prisoners are held at Charlestown, Virginia pending trial
Cultural	Thu, October 20, 1859	John Dewey, American philosoper and reformer, born in Vermont
Crime/Disasters	Fri, October 21, 1859	Explosion at the Du Pont Powder Mills in Delaware kills seven
Foreign	Sat, October 22, 1859	The Spanish-Moroccan War begins in earnest
Crime/Disasters	Sun, October 23, 1859 - Mon, October 24, 1859	Fire destroys a large section of New Orleans' thriving Fourth District
Science/Technology	Mon, October 24, 1859	Louis Agassiz donates his collections to the new Museum of Comparative Zoology in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Lawmaking/Litigating	Tue, October 25, 1859	John Brown appears before a Virginia court for the first time
Education/Culture	Tue, October 25, 1859	All-England Cricket team wind up their United States tour with a victory in Rochester, New York
Crime/Disasters	Tue, October 25, 1859 - Wed, October 26, 1859	Massive storms batter the western coast of the British Isles and cause hundreds of deaths
Lawmaking/Litigating	Wed, October 26, 1859	John Brown and his fellow prisoners are held at Charlestown pending trial before a Virginia court
Lawmaking/Litigating	Thu, October 27, 1859 - Mon, October 31, 1859	John Brown stands trial in Charlestown, Virginia
Slavery/Abolition	Fri, October 28, 1859 - Sat, October 29, 1859	Mob destroys the office of Abolitionist newspaper in Newport, Kentucky
Personal	Sun, October 30, 1859	John Young Mason buried in Richmond, Virginia
Crime/Disasters	Tue, November 1, 1859	Train derailment in Wisconsin kills ten people and injures many more
Religion/Philosophy	Tue, November 1, 1859	All Saints Day
Personal	Tue, November 1, 1859	Francis Hall arrives in Yokohama, Japan
Science/Technology	Tue, November 1, 1859	New Cape Lookout Lighthouse lit for the first time on North Carolina coast
Legal/Political	Tue, November 1, 1859	At the Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, Wendell Phillips praises John Brown in a speech
Lawmaking/Litigating	Wed, November 2, 1859	New Georgia legislature assembles in Milledgeville
Legal/Political	Wed, November 2, 1859	The Commonwealth of Virginia sentences John Brown to death
Campaigns/Elections	Wed, November 2, 1859	Widespread violence in Baltimore as the state elections are held
US/the World	Thu, November 3, 1859	Abundant Canadian harvest celebrated with a day of thanksgiving across the country
Crime/Disasters	Thu, November 3, 1859	Another large fire strikes New Orleans leaving five hundred homeless
Crime/Disasters	Thu, November 3, 1859	Fire destroys large cotton mill in Concord, New Hampshire
Business/Industry	Sat, November 5, 1859	Meeting in Kentucky protests the economic domination of the East Coast
Legal/Political	Sat, November 5, 1859	John Copeland, African-American Harpers Ferry raider, convicted in Charlestown, Virginia
Crime/Disasters	Sat, November 5, 1859	Fire destroys part of central Bath in upstate New York