Sargent's Year in Context    (Frontpage) (Thumbnail Index)

US and World History -- Year In Context
(In large part, dates are from  http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/pub/dates)

1850's              56 57 58 59
1860's
1870's
1880's
1890's
1900's
1910's
1920's
 

1856

1857
  • ?? ?? 1857 Transatlantic cable begins; used briefly in 1858.  Replaced in 1866
  • 06 03 1857 Dred Scott decision handed down by Supreme Court
  • 27 06 1857 British soldiers and others massacred at Cawnpore, India
  • 10 09 1857 Mormons, embittered by religious persecution, attack and kill Gentile wagon train in what was to become known as the Mountain Meadows Massacre
  • 16 09 1857 Patent was issued for the typesetting machine
  • 1858
     
    1859
    ?? ?? 1859 "On  the Origin of Species by  Means of Natural Selection" by Charles Darwin published
    28 01 1859 Seth Thomas, American clock maker, died
    14 02 1859 Oregon, the Beaver State, becomes the 33rd state
    25 04 1859 Ground broken for the Suez Canal
    27 08 1859 1st successful oil well drilled near Titusville, Penn
    01 09 1859 Joshua A. Norton proclaims himself Emperor Norton I
    19 09 1859 The song "Dixie" was first sung by its composer, a blackfaced minstrel singer, Daniel Decatur Emmett
    20 09 1859 Patent granted on the electric range
    16 10 1859 Abolitionist John Brown leads assault on armory at Harper's Ferry, Colonel Robert E. Lee, US Army, commands troops against John Brown.
    02 12 1859 John Brown is hung for treason, murder and conspiracy in Charlestown, Virginia
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