HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leave South-America for last time

Event

British parliament accept registration of birth/marriage/death

Event

Thijs [Matthijs] Maris, Dutch painter/etcher

Birth

Hubert Platt Main, composer

Birth

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, England, writer (Irish Land League)

Birth

Lu¡s NF Varela, Brazilian romantic poet

Birth

Menelik II, King of Ethiopia (1896-1913)

Birth

US fleet officer Robert F Stockton annexes California

Event

Jos‚ Francisco de San Martin, South American revolutionary hero, dies

Death

Henry Drummond, Scottish geologist/evangelist

Birth

Violet Paget, [Vernon Lee], British author (Satan the master)

Birth

1st bank in Hawaii opens

Event

1st air mail (in a balloon) took off from Lafayette Ind

Event

Confederate troops under Kirby Smith enter Kentucky

Event

Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta), Tennessee

Event

Federal batteries and ships attacked Fort Sumter in SC

Event

Johann Nepomuk Poissl, composer, dies at 82

Death

Mosby Munroe Parsons, US Confederate gen-maj, dies in battle

Death

Bathe and Prussia signs peace treaty

Event

1st international boat race (Thames River, Oxford beats Harvard)

Event

1st ascent of Mt Rainier, Washington

Event

Frederick Russell, developed 1st successful typhoid fever vaccine

Birth

Mrs Esther Morris becomes 1st woman magistrate (South Pass, Wyoming)

Event

Theodor D„ubler, German writer (Northern Lights)

Birth

D„ubler, writer

Birth