Events from 1859

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1859

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1859 ID: 916
Darwin's Origin of Species provides justification for treating children as categories - demolishes dogmatic barriers
ID: 916
1859 ID: 917
Kirchhoff and Bunsen develop spectroscopy at German universities - revolutionizes astronomy and chemistry
ID: 917
1859 ID: 918
Publication of Alta Vendita - Carbonari plan to infiltrate Catholic Church and spread liberal ideas
ID: 918
1859 ID: 919
Charles Darwin publishes Origin of Species with mathematical arguments and statistical analysis
ID: 919
1859 ID: 920
Edwin Drake drills first commercial oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania - begins petroleum industry
ID: 920
Titusville
1859 ID: 921
Darwin's Origin of Species - man descended from animals, no purpose, mind from matter
ID: 921
1859 ID: 922
Mill's On Liberty - individual freedom supreme but no transcendent foundation for rights
ID: 922
1859 ID: 924
London sewage system construction begins under Joseph Bazalgette
ID: 924
London
1859 ID: 925
Blessed Leon Dupont promotes Holy Face devotion - oil lamp becomes miraculous, thousands healed
ID: 925
Tours Carmel
1859 ID: 5580
Albrecht von Roon becomes Prussian War Minister - proposes army reorganization extending service to 3 years, strengthening regular army over Landwehr
ID: 5580
Berlin
1859 ID: 923
August 4, 1859
St. John Vianney dies - 100,000 pilgrims yearly, promoted Holy Face devotion, body incorrupt
ID: 923
Ars

Books & Texts from 1859

📖 charles-dickens - hunted-down-the-detective-stories-of-charles-dickens
📖 samuel-smiles - self-help-with-illustrations-of-conduct-and-perseverance
📖 charles-dickens - a-tale-of-two-cities
📖 harriet-e-wilson - our-nig-or-sketches-from-the-life-of-a-free-black-in-a-two-story-white-house-north
📖 omar-khayyam-translated-by-edward-fitzgerald - the-rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam
📖 george-eliot - adam-bede