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Historical Event(s)
– Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Il Trovatore receives its premiere performance in Rome.
– The Taiping reform movement occupies and makes Nanjing its capital until 1864.
– The first passenger rail opens in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane.
– The Russian Army crossed the Pruth river into the Danubian Principalities, Moldavia and Wallachia—providing the spark that set off the Crimean War.
– Opening of the first major US world’s fair, the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City.
– Joaquin Murietta, the famous Californio bandit known as “Robin Hood of El Dorado”, is killed.
– Admiral Despointes formally takes possession of New Caledonia in the name of France.
– Crimean War: The Ottoman Empire declares war on Russia.
– Crimean War: Battle of Sinop – The Imperial Russian Navy under Pavel Nakhimov destroys the Ottoman fleet under Osman Pasha at Sinop, a sea port in northern Turkey.
– Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest.
Who Were Born On ?
– Jessie Bond, English singer and actress (d. 1942)
– Georgios Jakobides, Greek painter (d. 1926)
– Gen Sir Ian Hamilton, British military commander (d. 1947)
– Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist (d. 1901)
– Tad Lincoln, son of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln (d. 1871)
– Aleksei Brusilov, Russian general (d. 1926)
– Bat Masterson, American Old West figure (d. 1921)
– Haraprasad Shastri, Indian scholar and historian (d. 1931)
– Charles Fitzpatrick, Canadian politician, lieutenant-governor of Quebec (d. 1942)
– André Messager, French composer (d. 1929)