Events
DateEvent
1859 Herman Bemberg Was Born
January 20 1859 Bettina Brentano Died
1859 Gerard von Brucken Fock Was Born
1859 Hedwige Chrétien Was Born
1859 Reginald De Koven Was Born
May 13 1859 August Enna Was Born
1859 Josef Bohuslav Foerster Was Born
1859 W. O. Forsyth Was Born
April 11 1859 Basil Harwood Was Born
1859 Victor Herbert Was Born
1859 Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov Was Born
1859 Julius Klengel Was Born
1859 Lewis Henry Lavenu Died
1859 Sergei Lyapunov Was Born
1859 William Reed Was Born
November 07 1859 Carl Gottlieb Reissiger Died
1859 Luigi Ricci Died
1859 Nikolay Sokolov Was Born
1859 Louis Spohr Died
1859 Roman Statkowski Was Born
January 24 1859 Cuza Elected Dominator In Moldavia And Wallachia
February 04 1859 The Codex Sinaiticus Is Discovered In Egypt
February 05 1859 Wallachia And Modavia United Under Cuza
February 14 1859 Oregon Becomes The 33rd State
February 19 1859 Sickles Found Not Guilty By Insanity
April 04 1859 Bryant's Minstrels Debut In New York City
April 25 1859 British And French Starts Suez Canal
May 04 1859 Cornwall Railway Opens
May 31 1859 House Of Parlaiment's, Big Ben, Keeps Time
June 04 1859 Battle Of Magenta; France Defeats Austria
June 06 1859 Queensland Separated From New South Wales
June 15 1859 Northwestern Boundary Disputed By Oregon Settlers
June 18 1859 Aletschhorn Climbed For First Time
June 24 1859 Battle Of Solferino: Victory Over Austria
June 28 1859 Newcastle Dog Show Held In England
July 08 1859 King Charles XV Accedes Swedish Throne
July 30 1859 First Climb Of Grand Combin
August 16 1859 Tuscan National Assembly Formally Deposes
August 27 1859 Oil Well Successful At Titsuville, Pennsylvania
August 28 1859 Carrington Event Disrupts Telegraph Services
September 02 1859 Solar Storm Affects Telegraph Service
September 17 1859 Norton Declares Himself Emperor Of USA
October 16 1859 John Brown Leads Raid On Harpers Ferry
October 22 1859 Spain Declares War On Morocco
October 26 1859 459 Dead In Wales Charter Wreck
November 01 1859 Cape Lookout Lit For First Time
November 15 1859 Athens, Greece Holds First Modern Olympic Games
November 24 1859 Charles Darwin Publishes Origin Of Species
December 02 1859 John Brown Is Hanged