January 1 City of Glasgow steamer inaugurates Philadelphia-Liverpool line January 15 GGeneralen Arista replaces Mexican President Herrera January 25 Sojourner Truth addresses 1st Black Women's Rights Convention (Akron) January 28 Northwestern University in Chicago chartered January 31 Gail Borden announces invention of evaporated milk January 31 SF Orphan's Asylum, 1st in California, founded February 6 Robert Schumann's 3rd Symphony "Rhenisch," premieres in Dusseldorf February 11 1st cricket 1st-class game in Australia, Tasmania vs. Vic, Launceston February 15 Black abolitionists invade Boston courtroom rescueing a fugitive slave March 3 Congress authorizes smallest U.S. silver coin (3 cent piece) March 6 Dion Boucicault's "Love in a Maze," premieres in London March 7 Poll tax levied on Russo-Polish Jews entering Austrian Galicia ends March 11 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto," premieres in Venice March 21 Yosemite Valley discovered in California April 15 Earl G. Andrassy sentenced to death in Hungary April 23 Canada issues its 1st postage stamps May 1 Great Exhibition opens in Chrystal Palace London May 3 Most of San Francisco destroyed by fire; 30 die May 4 1st major San Francisco fire May 6 Dr. John Gorrie patents a "refrigeration machine" May 6 Linus Yale patents Yale-lock May 6 San Francisco Chamber of Commerce starts May 15 Rama IV, Phra Chomklao Chaoyuhua, king of Thailand 1851 - 1868, crowned May 18 Amsterdam-Nieuwediep telegraph connection linked May 28 Sojourner Truth attends Women's Rights Convention June 2 1st U.S. alcohol prohibition law enacted, Maine June 3 1st baseball uniforms worn, New York Knickerbockers wear straw hat, white shirt and blue long trousers June 15 Jacob Fussell, Baltimore dairyman, sets up 1st ice-cream factory June 22 Fire destroys part of San Francisco July 13 John F. Loudon discovers tin on East Indian Island of Billiton July 23 Treaty of Traverse des Sioux signed by Sioux Indians and U.S. July 24 Window tax abolished in Britain July 28 Total solar eclipse captured on a daguerreotype photograph August 12 1st America's Cup-U.S. schooner America beats British yacht Aurora August 12 Isaac Singer patents sewing machine August 22 Gold fields discovered in Australia August 22 Yacht "America" wins 1st Royal Yacht Squadron Cup (America's Cup) September 18 New York Times starts publishing at 2 cents a copy October 1 1st Hawaiian stamps issued October 24 William Lassell discovers Ariel and Umbriel, satellites of Uranus October 30 Alfred de Mussets "Bettine," premieres in Paris November 2 Louis Napoleon takes power in France November 11 Alvan Clark patents telescope November 13 1st meeting of anti-revolutionary "Netherlands and Orange" November 13 Telegraph connection between London-Paris linked November 14 "Moby Dick," by Herman Melville, published November 22 Opera "La Perle Du Bresil" is produced (Paris) December 4 President Louis Napolean Boaparte forces crush a coup d'etat in France December 9 1st Young Men's Christian Association in North America (Montreal) December 24 Fire devastates Library of Congress in Wash, destroys 35,000 volumes December 24 U.S. Library of Congress catches fire; 35,000 books burn December 29 1st Young Men's Christian Association chapter opened (Boston)
