1859 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1859?
- January 24, 1859 – Political union of Moldavia and Wallachia; Alexandru Ioan Cuza is elected as ruler.
- February 4, 1859 – The Codex Sinaiticus is discovered in Egypt.
- February 5, 1859 – Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexander John Cuza as the United Principalities, an autonomous region within the Ottoman Empire, which ushered the birth of the modern Romanian state.
- February 14, 1859 – Oregon is admitted as the 33rd U.S. state.
- April 4, 1859 – Bryant’s Minstrels debut “Dixie” in New York City in the finale of a blackface minstrel show.
- April 25, 1859 – British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.
- May 4, 1859 – The Cornwall Railway opens across the Royal Albert Bridge linking the counties of Devon and Cornwall in England.
- May 30, 1859 – Westminster’s Big Ben rang for the first time in London.
- May 31, 1859 – The clock tower at the Houses of Parliament, which houses Big Ben, starts keeping time.
- June 4, 1859 – Italian Independence wars: In the Battle of Magenta, the French army, under Louis-Napoleon, defeat the Austrian army.
- 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.
- August 16, 1859 – The Tuscan National Assembly formally deposes the House of Habsburg-Lorraine.
- September 1, 1859 – Solar Superstorm
- September 2, 1859 – A solar super storm affects electrical telegraph service.
- October 16, 1859 – John Brown leads a raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
- October 22, 1859 – Spain declares war on Morocco.
- November 1, 1859 – The current Cape Lookout, North Carolina, lighthouse is lit for the first time. Its first-order Fresnel lens can be seen for about 19 miles (30 kilometers), in good conditions.
- November 15, 1859 – The first modern revival of the Olympic Games takes place in Athens, Greece.
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