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Thirty-fifth Congress adjourns......March 3, 1859 Trial of Daniel E. Sickles begun at Washington, D. C.......April 4, 1859 [It lasted eighteen days and resulted in his acquittal.] A rich gold mine opened in Colorado, on the north fork of Clear Creek, by John H. Gregory......May 10, 1859 Unexampled frost prevails throughout the northern United States night of......June 4, 1859 M. Blondin for the first time crosses the Niagara River just below the falls on a tight-rope......June 30, 1859 San Juan islands occupied by General Harney, U. S. A. (though claimed by Great Britain as belonging to Vancouver Island)......July 9, 1859 Little John, a negro, arrested at Oberlin, O., as a slave, and rescued at Wellington......Sept. 13, 1859 Senator David C. Broderick, of California, mortally wounded in a duel with Judge Terry near Lake Merced, Cal., Sept. 13, dies......Sept. 16, 1859 United States steamship Niagara sails from Charleston, S. C., for Liberia, Africa, with
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
rated......April 3, 1856 Dudley observatory built at Albany......1856 Failure of the Ohio Life and Trust Company in New York; a commercial panic spreads throughout the United States......Aug. 24, 1856 First telegraphic despatch received in New York from London by the Atlantic telegraph......Aug. 5, 1858 Edwin D. Morgan, Republican, elected governor......1858 M. Blondin (Émile Gravelet) crosses the Niagara River, just below the Falls, for the first time on a tight-rope......June 30, 1859 Washington Irving, born in New York City in 1783, dies at Tarrytown, N. Y.......Nov. 28, 1859 Population of the State, 3,880,735......1860 Erie Canal enlargement completed; entire cost, $52,491,915.74......1862 Horatio Seymour, Democrat, elected governor......November, 1862 Manhattan College, at Manhattanville, New York City, incorporated by the regents......April 2, 1863 Peace meeting held in New York City, called by leading Democrats to devise means for ending the Ci