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
1858?? ?? 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
1859
?? ?? 1859 "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection" by Charles Darwin publishedNext
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
updated
10/03/2003