Science/Technology |
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Donati's Comet passes at its closest to the Earth |
Cultural |
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The highly influential Association for the Promotion of Social Science holds its second annual meeting in Liverpool, England |
Campaigns/Elections |
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Lincoln and Douglas hold their sixth, and most acrimonious, debate in Quincy, Illinois |
Campaigns/Elections |
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Lincoln and Douglas hold their final debate in Alton, Illinois |
Personal |
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Future boxing champion John L. Sullivan born to Irish immigrant parents in Boston |
Business/Industry |
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Suffolk Bank announces its intention to end the Suffolk Banking System in force since 1824 |
Education/Culture |
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London based philanthropist George Peabody donates a further $200,000 to the Peabody Institute in Baltimore |
Battles/Soldiers |
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In New Mexico, an audacious Navajo attack on the Fort Defiance livestock herd is driven off |
Cultural |
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Offenbach's operetta "Orpheus in the Underworld" opens in Paris and introduces the world to the "can-can" |
Foreign |
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The dispute between France and Portugal over the slave ship "Charles-et-Georges" is settled |
Slavery/Abolition |
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Senator Seward gives his famous "irrepressible conflict" speech in Rochester, New York |
Personal |
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Theodore Roosevelt is born in New York City |
Business/Industry |
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Rowland Hussey Macy opens his new New York City store for its first day of business and has takings of $11.06 |
Personal |
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The last of Wolfgang Mozart's sons dies in Milan |
Religion/Philosophy |
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All Saints Day |
Foreign |
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Queen Victoria is proclaimed throughout India as Queen; Lord Canning is to be the first Viceroy of India |
Legal/Political |
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A Reform Association is constituted in Baltimore to attempt to bring order to the city |
Campaigns/Elections |
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Illinois Democrats retain control of the state legislature in the November 1858 election |
Religion/Philosophy |
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Quakers moderate their demands in marriage and in dress |
Personal |
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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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Samuel Eli Cornish, pioneer black journalist and abolitionist, dies in Brooklyn |
Foreign |
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Mexican liberals begin to advance westward towards Mexico City in hopes of winning the War of the Reform |
Personal |
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Benjamin Franklin Butler, former Attorney General of the United States, dies in Paris |
Lawmaking/Litigating |
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The United States and Chile agree to submit the long standing "Macedonia" dispute for arbitration |
Personal |
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James Garfield marries Lucretia Randolph in Ohio |
Personal |
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Robert Owen dies in Wales, aged eighty |
Foreign |
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Big Ben sounds for the first time |
Lawmaking/Litigating |
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The city of Denver is founded in Colorado and named for the territorial governor |
Foreign |
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Montalembert is tried and convicted for libel in a French imperial court |
Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Vermont passes a new Personal Liberty Law |