* John Austin ( legal philosopher ) ( 1790 – 1859 ), English jurist

In 1859, Nobel's father left his factory in the care of the second son, Ludvig Nobel ( 1831 – 1888 ), who greatly improved the business.

* 1859 – Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world's first commercially successful oil well.

* 1779 – Carl Ritter, German geographer ( d. 1859 )

* 1785 – Thomas De Quincey, English author ( d. 1859 )

* 1859 – Charles Comiskey, American baseball player and manager ( d. 1931 )

* 1859 – The Tuscan National Assembly formally deposes the House of Habsburg-Lorraine.

* 1859 – Katharine Lee Bates, American poet ( d. 1929 )

* Alexander John Cuza, prince of Romania ( 1859 – 1866 )

* 1859 – A geomagnetic storm causes the Aurora Borealis to shine so brightly that it is seen clearly over parts of USA, Europe, and even as far away as Japan.

* 1859 – Matilda Howell, American archer ( d. 1938 )

* 1859 – Vittorio Sella, Italian photographer ( d. 1943 )

* 1917 – L. L. Zamenhof, Polish creator of Esperanto ( b. 1859 )

* 1859 – Knut Hamsun, Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1952 )

* 1859 – British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.

* 1944 – William Stephens, American politician ( b. 1859 )

* 1803 – James Curtiss, American politician, Mayor of Chicago ( d. 1859 )

* 1859 – Walter Camp, American football player, coach, and writer ( d. 1925 )

* 1943 – Alexandre Millerand, French politician, President of France ( b. 1859 )

Alfred Edward Housman (; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936 ), usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad.

* Page, Norman, ‘ Housman, Alfred Edward ( 1859 – 1936 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004 )

His siblings included Sarah ( 1802 – 1859 ), Naphtali ( 1807 ), Ralph ( 1809 – 1898 ), and James ( 1813 – 1868 ).

The Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister 1855 – 58, 1859 – 65

* July 4 – King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway ( d. 1859 )

Also there, on February 21, 1859, together with 151 republicans he signed a manifesto against the alliance between Piedmont and the King of France which resulted in the Second War of Italian Independence and the conquest of Lombardy.

Oscar I ( born Joseph François Oscar Bernadotte ; 4 July 1799 – 8 July 1859 ) was King of Sweden and Norway from 1844 to his death.

1859 stamp of Sicily with deferential cancellation designed not to deface the " sacred image " of Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies | King Ferdinand II

In the centre of the quad is the Harris Building, formerly Oriel court, a real tennis court where Charles I played tennis with his nephew Prince Rupert in December 1642 and King Edward VII had his first tennis lesson in 1859.

On December 27, 1852, King Maximilian II granted Ludwigshafen am Rhein political freedom and as soon as November 8, 1859, the settlement gained town status.

Following the death of her father-in-law in 1859, Oscar was first in line to the Swedish throne after his brother the King.

Ferdinand II ( Ferdinando Carlo, 12 January 1810 – 22 May 1859 ) was King of the Two Sicilies from 1830 until his death.

The expulsion in 1837 of the seven professors – Die Göttinger Sieben – the Germanist, Wilhelm Eduard Albrecht ( 1800 – 1876 ); the historian Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann ( 1785 – 1860 ); the orientalist Georg Heinrich August Ewald ( 1803 – 1875 ); the historian Georg Gottfried Gervinus ( 1805 – 1875 ); the physicist Wilhelm Eduard Weber ( 1804 – 1891 ); and the philologists, the brothers Jakob ( 1785 – 1863 ) and Wilhelm Grimm ( 1786 – 1859 ), for protesting against the revocation by King Ernest Augustus I of Hanover of the liberal constitution of 1833, further reduced the prosperity of the university.

She also played the roles of Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1856 ), Prince Arthur in King John ( 1858 ) and Fleance in Macbeth ( 1859 ), continuing at the Princess's Theatre until the Keans ' retirement in 1859.

One of its first public performances was for a South Australian Institute soirée at White's Rooms, King William Street, on 14 December 1859 by the Adelaide Liedertafel, conducted by Herr Linger.

Francis II (, christened Francesco d ' Assisi Maria Leopoldo, 16 January 1836 – 27 December 1894 ), was King of the Two Sicilies from 1859 to 1861.

Under the patronage of King William IV it later became known as The Royal Geographical Society ( RGS ) and was granted its Royal Charter under Queen Victoria in 1859.

The Death of King Arthur by James Archer ( artist ) | James Archer ( 1823 – 1904 ), who began painting Arthurian subjects in about 1859.

* Oscar Bernadotte ( 1859 – 1953 ), second son of King Oscar II of Sweden.

Pulling Down the Statue of King George III, N. Y. C., ( Circa | c. 1859 ) A romanticized Victorian era painting with historical inaccuracies: the sculpture is depicted in 1850's garb, and Native Americans, women and children are at the scene.

* Prince Carl ( as of 1826 ; King from 1859 )

He also became involved in the civil concerns of the islands, and was the King ’ s Minister of Foreign Affairs from November 1843 to March 1845, Minister of Interior from March 1845 to February 1846, Minister of Finance from April 1846 to September 1853, and in the house of representatives from 1858 to 1859.

On 11 May 1859 at Belém Palace, Lisbon, George married the Infanta Maria Anna of Portugal ( 1843 – 1884 ), the eldest surviving daughter of Queen Maria II of Portugal ( 1819 – 1853 ) and her consort, King Ferdinand II ( 1816 – 1885 ).

The first submarine communications cable across Bass Strait in 1859 went via King Island, starting at Cape Otway, Victoria, it made contact with the Tasmanian mainland at Stanley Head, and then continued on to George Town.

The Faculty of Letters ( Portuguese: Faculdade de Letras ), FLUL, was created in 1911, although it's predated by the Superior Studies in Letters ( Curso Superior de Letras ), created in 1859 by King Pedro V, from which all students and professors were transferred.

King had arranged for Maj W. W. Chapman ( died 1859 ) to bid on the Rincón property, which Chapman acquired for $ 1, 575.

King and Walworth's brand was registered June 27, 1859 along with his earlier brands ( see below ).