Facts and Events That Happened in This Year
The Clifton Suspension Bridge was finally opened.
Nevada became the 36th state to join the United States of America.
Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving Day a national holiday.
The Great Cyclone of Calcutta hit India and destroyed over half the city.
Sir William Huggins discovered the spectrum of a planetary nebula at his observatory in Upper Tulse Hill in London, England.
Italian astronomer Giovanni Donati became the first person to observe the spectrum of a comet.
President Abraham Lincoln asked for 500,000 volunteers to join the military service.
The USS Kearsarge sank the CSS Alabama off the coast of Cherbourg, France.
Russia declared an end to the Russian-Circassian War.
The US Congress passed legislation that allowed the 'In God We Trust' inscription on the currency.
Rebecca Lee Crumpler became the first African American female physician.
Saint Francis Xavier Church in Baltimore, Maryland, became the first church exclusively for blacks in the US.
Heineken International was founded in the Netherlands.
Charing Cross Railway Station opened in London, England.
