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History

1859

Population: 1.27 Billion*

Archaeology: LFK Tischendorf discovers Codex Sinaiticus
Entertainment: Writers include Harriet Wilson (African-American novel), Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities), George Eliot, Edward Fitzgerald, Ivan Goncharov, Victor Hugo, George Sand, Tennyson, Ferdinand Lasalle (about Prussia), Karl Marx, JS Mill (On Liberty), Ranke (history of England), Ernest Renen (moral essays), Pasquale Villari, Samuel Smiles writes "Self-Help" the manual on how to succeed in life
Art includes Corot's "Macbeth", Millet's "The Angelus", Whistler's "At the Piano"
Music includes Daniel Decatur Emmet "Dixie", Gounod "Faust", Verdi,
Science: Darwin's "Origin of Species" published
Bunsen and Kirchhoff begins experimenting with spectrum analysis
HJS Smith writes about number theory
Dinosaur eggs first described
Technology: RLG Plante creates first practical storage battery
Steamroller invented
Deaths: Naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, Prince Klemens von Metternich of Austria, Historian Henry Hallam, Financier Richard Rush, Washington Irving, Composer Louis Spohr, Author Leigh Hunt, Author Thomas de Quincey, Folklorist Wilhelm Grimm, Politician Amos Kendall, Historian WH Prescott, Historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, Author Alexis de Toqueville, Author Zygmunt Krasinski, King Oscar I of Sweden, Pedro Alarcon

General: Lake Tanganyika discovered
Egypt: Founding of Port Said
Work on Suez Canal begun under the Lesseps' direction

Canada: French tightrope walker Charles Blondin crosses Niagara falls on tightrope
Ecuador: Earthquake

General: French-Austrian War - Austria invades Sardinia and France declares war - ends with Treaty of Zurich
British-French treaty lays basis for free trade between countries
Austria: Death of Prince Metternich
France: Anthropological Society of Paris founded
Hot summer in Paris leads to low birthrates next spring
German States: German National Association founded aimed at uniting Germany under Prussia
Albert von Roon Prussian War Minister reforms army
Bismarck becomes Prussian ambassador to St. Petersburg
Great Britain: Lord Derby resigns and Lord Palmerston (Liberal) becomes British Prime Minister
Engineer Brunel of England crosses his designed Royal Albert Bridge – from platform truck from overwork
Italian States: King Ferdinand of the Two Sicilies dies – Francis II rules
Piedmont, supported by France, expels Austrians from N Italy
End of Grand Duchies of Tuscany, Parma, Mocerna
Milan captured in French-Austrian War
Romania: Wallachia unites with Moldavia to form Romania
Sweden: Death of King Oscar I of Sweden – Charles XV rules

Australia: Outbreak of rabbits
Queensland separated from New South Wales with Brisbane as capital

Pig War, Saltfleet Township – teacher locked in the classroom by students and pelted with mud,