In 1859, tensions between the Catholic Irish immigrants and the existing Protestant community led to the Eliot School Rebellion.

Only four men eventually escaped alive from Cawnpore on one of the boats: two private soldiers ( both of whom died later during the Rebellion ), a lieutenant, and Captain Mowbray Thomson, who wrote a first-hand account of his experiences entitled The Story of Cawnpore ( London, 1859 ).

Charles John Canning, 1st Earl Canning KG, GCB, PC ( 14 December 1812 – 17 June 1862 ), known as The Viscount Canning from 1837 to 1859, was an English statesman and Governor-General of India during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

* Edward Allen ( Medal of Honor recipient ) ( 1859 – 1917 ), U. S. Navy sailor in the Boxer Rebellion

* Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe of Great Britain ( 1859 – 1935 ), awarded the Order, 2nd Class, with swords, for actions in China during the Boxer Rebellion, where he served as a captain.

During British rule, the region was the location of several uprisings, including Wahabi Movement ( 1831 ), Faraizi Movement ( 1838 – 47 ), Sepoy Rebellion ( 1857 ), Indigo Rebellion ( 1859 – 60 ), Khilafat Movement ( 1920 ), Swadeshi Movement ( 1906 ), Non-cooperation movement, Violation of Law and Salt Satyagraha ( 1920 – 40 ), Quit India Movement or August Revolt ( 1942 ).

Bakht Khan ( 1797 – 13 May 1859 ) was nominal commander-in-chief of Indian rebel forces in the Indian Rebellion of 1857 against the East India Company.

The Portsmouth and Weldon Railroad, completed in the 1830s allowed for goods to be transported from the Roanoke River to be directly transported to Weldon, and the Albemarle-Chesapeake Canal, completed in 1859, created a deeper channel for merchants shipping goods from the Eastern Albemarle Sound to Norfolk.

** Papilio amynthor Boisduval, 1859 – Norfolk Swallowtail

FitzAlan-Howard was the only son of the 1st Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent, second son of the 14th Duke of Norfolk, and Lady Mary Bertie ( 1859 – 1938 ), daughter of the 7th Earl of Abingdon.

In December 1859, the Merrimac reached Norfolk, and the vessel was laid up for an overhaul and the crew discharged.

* Jacob Astley, 16th Baron Hastings ( 1797 – 1859 ), British MP for West Norfolk

About half of the route was abandoned in 1859 ; the rest became part of the Pennsylvania Railroad's route into the Delmarva Peninsula and is still used by Norfolk Southern.

Heidenstam was born in 1859, of a prosperous family.

On October 31, 1859, John Brown was found guilty of treason against the state of Virginia, inciting slave rebellion, and murder.

For these crimes he was sentenced to be hanged in public on Friday, December 2, 1859.

On Wednesday morning, November 2, 1859, the Providence Daily Journal stated that although Brown justly deserved the extreme penalty, no man, however criminal, ought to suffer the penalty without a fair trial.

The results of the election of 1859 found Republican candidates not only winning the offices of governor and lieutenant-governor but also obtaining the two Congressional offices from the eastern and western sections of the state.

On November 7, 1859, the Providence Daily Journal reprinted a letter sent to John Brown from `` E. B. '', a Quaker lady in Newport.

On Wednesday evening, November 23, 1859, in Warren, Rev. Mark Trafton of New Bedford, gave a `` Mission of Sympathy '' lecture in which he favorably viewed the Harper's Ferry insurrection.

On November 22, 1859, the Providence Daily Journal stated that although Brown's `` pluck '' and honest fanaticism must be admired, any honor paid to Brown would only induce other fanatics to imitate his actions.

On December 2, 1859, John Brown was hanged at Charles Town, Virginia.

More than 250 Scottish Rite Masons and guests gathered in their House of the Temple to pay tribute to their most prominent leader, Albert Pike, who headed the Scottish Rite from 1859 to 1891.

Lincoln rarely raised objections in the courtroom ; but in an 1859 case, where he defended a cousin Peachy Harrison, who was accused of stabbing another to death, Lincoln angrily protested the judge's decision to exclude evidence favorable to his client.

In May 1859, Lincoln purchased the Illinois Staats-Anzeiger, a German-language newspaper which was consistently supportive ; most of the state's 130, 000 German Americans voted Democratic but there was Republican support that a German-language paper could mobilize.

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

But political debate was cut short throughout the South with Northern abolitionist John Brown's 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry Armory in an attempt to incite slave insurrections.

* 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 )

He graduated from Harvard University in 1855, subsequently studying engineering and chemistry, and taking the degree of bachelor of science at the Lawrence scientific school of the same institution in 1857 ; and in 1859 became an assistant in the United States Coast Survey.

* 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 )

Kett's Rebellion in Norfolk and the Prayer Book Rebellion in Devon and Cornwall simultaneously created a crisis during a time when invasion from Scotland and France were feared.

Instead of heading to London from her residence at Hunsdon, Mary fled into East Anglia, where she owned extensive estates and Dudley had ruthlessly put down Kett's Rebellion.

* Kett's Rebellion ( 1549 )

According to the leaders of Kett's Rebellion ( 1549 ), " all bond men may be made free, for God made all free with his precious blood-shedding.

* July – Kett's Rebellion in East Anglia, against land enclosures ; rebellion in Oxfordshire against landowners associated with religious changes.

* August 26 – Battle of Dussindale in England: Kett's Rebellion quashed.

In 1549 Robert Dudley participated in crushing Kett's Rebellion and probably first met Amy Robsart, whom he was to wed on 4 June 1550 in the presence of the young King Edward.

Kett's Rebellion was a revolt in Norfolk, England during the reign of Edward VI, largely in response to the enclosure of land.

Kett's Rebellion is remembered on Wymondham's town sign

Norwich at the time of Kett's Rebellion

In 1550 the Norwich authorities decreed that in future 27 August should be a holiday to commemorate " the deliverance of the city " from Kett's Rebellion, and paid for lectures in the cathedral and parish churches on the sins of rebellion.

The rebellion is remembered in the names of schools, streets, pubs and a walking route in the Norwich and Wymondham area, including the Robert Kett Junior School in Wymondham, Dussindale Primary School in Norwich, the Robert Kett pub in Wymondham and Kett's Tavern in Norwich, and in a folk band, Lewis Garland and Kett's Rebellion, and a beer, Kett's Rebellion, by Woodforde's Brewery in Norwich.

Tansley's For Kett and Countryside ( 1910 ), Jack Lindsay's The Great Oak ( 1949 ), Sylvia Haymon's children's story The Loyal Traitor ( 1965 ), and Margaret Callow's A Rebellious Oak ( 2012 ); plays, including George Colman Green's Kett the tanner ( 1909 ); and poetry, including Keith Chandler's collection Kett's Rebellion and Other Poems ( 1982 ).

1977 Kett's Rebellion: the Norfolk rising of 1549.

* MacCulloch, D. 1979 Kett's Rebellion in context.

* Virtual Norfolk: The ' Commotion Time ' in Norfolk: Kett's Rebellion of 1549

simple: Kett's Rebellion

Kett's Rebellion was evidence of an undercurrent of ferment in sixteenth-century Wymondham.