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1859 Calendar

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•  February 19, 1859 – Daniel E. Sickles, a New York Congressman, is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity. This is the 1st time this defense is successfully used in the United States.
•  April 25, 1859 – British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.
•  June 15, 1859 – Pig War: Ambiguity in the Oregon Treaty leads to the “Northwestern Boundary Dispute” between United States and British/Canadian settlers.
•  June 18, 1859 – First ascent of Aletschhorn, second summit of the Bernese Alps.
•  June 24, 1859 – Battle of Solferino (Battle of the Three Sovereigns): Sardinia and France defeat Austria in Solferino, northern Italy.
•  June 30, 1859 – French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
•  July 8, 1859 – King Charles XV & IV accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
•  August 16, 1859 – The Tuscan National Assembly formally deposes the House of Habsburg-Lorraine.
•  October 16, 1859 – John Brown leads a raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
•  October 22, 1859 – Spain declares war on Morocco.

•  January 6, 1859 – Samuel Alexander, Australian-born British philosopher (d. 1938)
•  January 11, 1859 – Lord George Nathaniel Curzon, British statesman, Viceroy of India (d. 1925)
•  February 6, 1859 – Wilhelm Cohn, German chess master (d. 1913)
•  February 18, 1859 – Sholom Aleichem, Russian Yiddish humorist (d. 1916)
•  May 15, 1859 – Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1906)
•  May 22, 1859 – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish physician and writer (d. 1930)
•  July 30, 1859 – Henry Simpson Lunn, English humanitarian (d. 1939)
•  September 11, 1859 – Vjenceslav Novak, Croatian writer (d. 1905)
•  December 2, 1859 – Georges Seurat, French painter (d. 1891)
•  December 29, 1859 – Venustiano Carranza, 54th President of Mexico (d. 1920)