May 1 » In Vienna, Austria, Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro is performed for the first time.
June 10 » A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.
June 25 » Gavriil Pribylov discovers St. George Island of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea.
August 7 » The first federal Indian Reservation is created by the United States.
November 7 » The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
December 4 » Mission Santa Barbara is dedicated (on the feast day of Saint Barbara).
Day of death March 16, 1861
The temperature on March 16, 1861 was about 5.7 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. Source: KNMI
From February 23, 1860 till March 14, 1861 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Van Heemstra with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. S. baron Van Heemstra (liberaal).
From March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
February 4 » American Civil War: In Montgomery, Alabama, delegates from six break-away U.S. states meet and form the Confederate States of America.
March 3 » Alexander II of Russia signs the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing serfs.
March 21 » Alexander Stephens gives the Cornerstone Speech.
June 1 » American Civil War: The Battle of Fairfax Court House is fought.
July 25 » American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Crittenden–Johnson Resolution, stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery.
December 26 » American Civil War: The Trent Affair: Confederate diplomatic envoys James Murray Mason and John Slidell are freed by the United States government, thus heading off a possible war between the United States and the United Kingdom.
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