His father-in-law was a prominent Democrat in St. Louis, a factor that helped derail Grant's bid to become county engineer in 1859, while his own father was an outspoken Republican in Galena.

* January 15 – Louis Majorelle, French furniture designer ( b. 1859 )

* April 5 – Louis Spohr, German violinist and composer ( d. 1859 )

The garage had been rented by a man calling himself Frank Rogers, who gave his address as 1859 West North Avenue – which happened to be the address of the Circus Café, operated by Claude Maddox, a former St. Louis gangster with ties to the Capone organization, the Purple Gang, and a St. Louis gang called Egan's Rats.

Access from other regions was by horseback, wagon, or stagecoach on what became known as Old Wire Road, after the US Army ran a telegraph line from St. Louis, Missouri to Fort Smith, Arkansas in 1859.

In 1859, the St. Louis Iron Mountain Railroad built a depot.

In 1859, in association with Étienne Eugène Azam, Charles-Pierre Denonvilliers, François Anthime Eugène Follin, and Alfred Armand Louis Marie Velpeau, Broca performed the first experiments in Europe using hypnotism as surgical anesthesia.

Louis Pasteur's 1859 experiment is widely seen as having settled the question.

Tresillo, the habanera, and related African-based single-celled figures have long been heard in the left hand part of piano compositions by New Orleans musicians, for example — Louis Moreau Gottschalk (" Souvenirs From Havana " 1859 ), and Jelly Roll Morton (" The Crave " 1910 ).

Shenandoah Valley, oil on canvas, William Louis Sonntag, Sr., 1859 – 1860.

* Auguste Charles Louis Valentin de Morny ( 1859 – 1920 ), who succeeded his father as the 2e Duc de Morny.

The above-mentioned Louis von Tempsky's birth is registered at Sandhurst, Victoria for 1858, and Lina von Tempsky, born 1859 at Sandhurst.

Louis Spohr ( 5 April 178422 October 1859 ), born Ludwig Spohr, was a German composer, violinist and conductor.

His friendship with the exiled Louis Napoleon helped lead to quick British acquiescence in the Prince-President's decision to restore the Empire in 1852, but did not prevent Malmesbury from pursuing a policy relatively sympathetic to Austria during the crisis leading up to the Italian War of 1859.

Publisher Louis Godey showed off that in 1859, it cost $ 105, 200 to produce the Lady's Book, with the coloring of the fashion-plates costing $ 8, 000.

* Louis Spohr ( 1784 – 1859 ), German composer, violinist, and conductor

In 1859, Louis Guinard built a toll bridge across the North Platte and a trading post near the original ferry's locations.

* in Afghanistan, a kingdom entitled to a gun salute of 21 guns ( the highest rank among princely states, not then among Sovereign monarchs ): the first British Residents were Sir Alexander Burnes ( 1837 – 2 November 1841 ); William Hay McNaghten ( 7 August 1839 – 23 December 1841 ); Eldred Pottinger ( December 1841 – 6 January 1842 ). After that, four native Vakils acted on behalf of the British government: Nawab Foujdar Khan ( 1856 – April 1859 ), Ghulam Husain Khan Allizai ( April 1859 – 1865 ), Bukhiar Khan ( February 1864 – January 1868, acting ), Attah Muhammad Khan Khagwani ( January 1868 – 1878 ); then there were two more British Residents Louis Napoleon Cavagnari ( 24 July 1879 – 3 September 1879 ), Henry Lepel-Griffin ( 1880 ); next came two Military Commanders ( 8 October 1879 – 11 August 1880 ) and until 1919 ten native British Agents, one of whom served two non-consecutive terms.

* 1859 – Birth of Louis Majorelle and Cass Gilbert.

On 5 April 1859, Smith married his sixteen-year-old cousin Levira Annette Clark Smith ( 29 April 1842 Nauvoo, Illinois – 18 December 1888 St. Louis, Missouri ), daughter of Samuel Harrison Smith.

* Louis Spohr ( 1784 – 1859 ) String Sextet in C major, Op.

Louis Poinsot ( 1777 – 1859 ) was a French mathematician and physicist.

In 1859, when the site was part of the Nebraska Territory, Louis Guinard built a competing bridge at the trading post, called the Platte Bridge Station, at the site of the old Mormon Ferry crossing.

Clipper ships largely ceased being built in American shipyards in 1859 when, unlike the earlier boom years, only 4 clipper ships were built.

During the time from 1859 British clipper ships continued to be built.

These ships built from 1859 continued to be called extreme clippers.

They were built for the China tea trade and began with the Falcon in 1859, and finished with the last ships built in 1870.

An example was Royal Charter, built in 1857 and wrecked on the coast of Anglesey in 1859.

Inspired by Babbage's difference engine plans, Per Georg Scheutz built several difference engines from 1855 onwards, one of which was sold to the British government in 1859.

Crossing the Kaskaskia became much easier when the bridge now known as the General Dean Suspension Bridge was built in 1859, at a cost of $ 40, 000.

Between 1859 and 1869, under the direction of Ferdinand de Lesseps, the Compagnie universelle du canal maritime de Suez, a French company, built the Suez Canal, opening a new chapter in global transportation and trade.

The bridge was built in 1859 by Levi Fink and Elias McMellen.

Between 1859 and 1875, 23 new engines were built in the workshops attached to the shed, including several of the distinctive Bristol and Exeter Railway 4-2-4T locomotives.

Lee Hall, Virginia | Lee Hall, built in 1859 by Richard Lee.

The current courthouse was built in 1859 by the George Moore and Sons company.

Until the 19th century it was an area with few isolated buildings: examples being the Georgian Danson House and the Red House on Bexley Heath built for William Morris in 1859.

In October, 1859, the first courthouse was built and the first public school opened its doors with 32 pupils.

It was built from 1857 to 1859 by Perry M. Blankenship of Martinsville at a cost of $ 32, 000.

Robert Williamson Steele, Governor of the Provisional Government of the Territory of Jefferson from 1859 to 1861, built his home in the county at Mount Vernon and later at Apex.

File: Miller-Martin Town House Clayton Alabama. JPG | The Miller-Martin Town House was built in 1859 by John H. Miller.

His largest single commission was a programme of architectural sculptures for the Manchester Assize Courts, built in Manchester from 1859 through 1864.

The first school was built in 1859 at the corner of Grant Avenue at what is today Redwood Boulevard.

The first white settler in the area was Uriah Wood, who built his two room cabin in 1859.

Along it, in 1859, Fort Mojave was built to protect new pioneer immigrants to California and other travelers from the Mohave.

A railroad station was built in 1859 and a post office was established in 1860.