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1859
Events
January–March
January 24
(
O. S.
) –
Wallachia
and
Moldavia
are
united
under
Alexandru Ioan Cuza
(
Romania
since 1866, final unification takes place on December 1,
1918
; Transylvania and other regions are still missing at that time).
January 28
– The city of
Olympia
is incorporated in the
Washington Territory
in the United States of America.
February 4
– German scholar
Constantin von Tischendorf
rediscovers the
Codex Sinaiticus
, a 4th-century
uncial
manuscript of the
Greek
Bible
, in
Saint Catherine's Monastery
on the foot of
Mount Sinai
in the
Khedivate of Egypt
.
February 14
–
Oregon
is admitted as the 33rd
U.S. state
.
February 18
– French forces under
Charles Rigault de Genouilly
capture
Sài Gòn
in
Vietnam
.
February 27
– United States Congressman
Daniel Sickles
shoots
Philip Barton Key (U.S. District Attorney)
for having an affair with his wife.
March 9
– The army of the
Kingdom of Sardinia
mobilizes against Austria, beginning the crisis which will lead to the
Austro-Sardinian War
.
March 21
– The
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
issues the charter establishing the
Zoological Society of Philadelphia
, the first organization of its kind in the United States and founder of the nation's first zoo.
March 26
– A French amateur astronomer,
Edmond Modeste Lescarbault
, claims to have noticed a planet closer to the Sun than Mercury – later named
Vulcan
.
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