In 1859, while attending the free school, the Académie Suisse, Pissarro became friends with a number of younger artists who likewise chose to paint in the more realistic style.

The young Villiers was to have a long parliamentary career, while Cockburn became Lord Chief Justice of England in 1859 ).

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.

He married Lucretia Rudolph in 1858, and in 1860 was admitted to practice law while serving as an Ohio State Senator ( 1859 – 1861 ).

In 1848, the northwestern part, annexed in 1775 by the Habsburg Empire, Bukovina, had a population of 377, 571 ; in 1856, the eastern half of Moldavia, Bessarabia, annexed in 1812 by the Russian Empire, had a population of 990, 274, while the population of Moldavia proper ( the western half ), in 1859, was 1, 463, 927.

He followed it by painting At the Piano in 1859 in London, which he adopted as his home, while also regularly visiting friends in France.

The 1859 exhumation found that the wound was in accordance with a shot from the Danish fort while the other two analyses found that he had been murdered.

Monroe Township was originally formed as a township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 3, 1859, from portions of Washington Township, while the area was still part of Camden County.

John Brown stayed in an upstairs room at Mary Ritner's boarding house between June and October, 1859 while preparing for his raid on Harpers Ferry.

Impressed with the possibilities of the area while gathering wild hay there in early 1859, Warren P. Brady and Jehu Cox wrote to Brigham Young asking for permission to create a settlement.

He secured the French victory at Magenta ( 4 June 1859 ) and rose to the rank of Maréchal de France while in the field.

He was called to the bar in 1859, but, although contributing to a Liberal review, edited by Challemel-Lacour, did not make much of an impression until, on 17 November 1868, he was selected to defend the journalist Delescluze, prosecuted for having promoted a monument to the representative Baudin, who was killed while resisting the coup d ' état of 1851.

Cambridge also sank in 1859 and 1978, while Oxford did so in 1925, and again in 1951, when the race was then re-run on the following Monday.

Joel Estes and his son stumbled across the meadows that eventually became Estes Park in 1859 while on a hunting expedition.

His family moved to various locations around Melbourne while he was young, then in 1859 moved to Yackandandah in northern Victoria, close to family friends.

However, while in Britain privately overprinted stamps usually served as receipts for tax payments, in 1859, upon application of the Oxford Union Society, there was a unique instance of a private overprint being approved for application on the face of stamps.

The paper continued to be published until 1859 promoting temperance, moral reform, civil rights and black self-help while attacking the racial discrimination blacks faced within North America.

In addition to his literary productions, Kerner wrote some popular medical books, dealing with animal magnetism, a treatise on the influence of sebacic acid on animal organisms, Das Fettgift oder die Fettsäure und ihre Wirkung auf den tierischen Organismus ( 1822 ); a description of Wildbad and its healing waters, Das Wildbad im Königreich Württemberg ( 1813 ); while he gave a pretty and vivid account of his youthful years in Bilderbuch aus meiner Knabenzeit ( 1859 ); and in Die Bestürmung der württembergischen Stadt Weinsberg im Jahre 1525 ( 1820 ), showed considerable skill in historical narrative.

During 1859, Kogălniceanu again stood in the ad-hoc Divan and rallied support for Cuza from all factions of the unionist camp, while promoting his candidature in Bucharest — thus profiting from ambiguities in the Paris Treaty.

Moltke's own series of tactical problems, extending from 1859 to 1889, contributed very powerfully, of course, to the education of the selected young officers who passed through Verdy's hands, but Moltke dealt rather with a great number of separate problems, while Verdy developed in detail the successive events and ruling ideas of a whole day's or week's work in the same units.

In the US he published, from 1858 to 1862, a journal entitled Astronomical Notices, while his tables of the minor planets Flora, Victoria and Iris were severally issued in 1857, 1859 and 1869.

A match between Brisbane and Ipswich was held in 1859 while in 1860 a Toowoomba team played Dalby.

Another line ruled the Vorlande from 1803 to 1805, and Modena from 1814 to 1859, while Empress Marie Louise, Napoleon's second wife and the daughter of Austrian Emperor Francis, ruled over the Duchy of Parma between 1814 and 1847.

Daniel was the business brain, while Alexander laid the literary foundations, publishing such great authors as Charles Kingsley ( 1855 ), Thomas Hughes ( 1859 ), Francis Turner Palgrave ( 1861 ), Christina Rossetti ( 1862 ), Matthew Arnold ( 1865 ) and Lewis Carroll ( 1865 ).

* 1859 – Oregon is admitted as the 33rd U. S. state.

This defense was first used by U. S. Congressman Daniel Sickles of New York in 1859 after he had killed his wife's lover, Philip Barton Key, but was most used during the 1940s and 1950s.

Strongly opposed to the abolitionists who sought to end slavery in the U. S., Booth attended the hanging on December 2, 1859, of abolitionist leader John Brown, who was executed for leading a raid on the Federal armory at Harpers Ferry ( in present-day West Virginia ).

Brown ( 1835 – 1904 ), Kentucky governor 1891 – 1895, U. S. representative ( D – KY, 1859 – 1861, 1873 – 1877 )

* 1859 – Charles Brantley Aycock, 50th Governor of the U. S. state of North Carolina ( d. 1912 )

* Samuel M. Stephenson ( 1803 – 1859 ), U. S. politician from Michigan

The USMC Model 1859 NCO Sword is the longest continuously-issued edged weapon in the U. S. inventory

* November 14 – Nathaniel Claiborne, U. S. politician ( d. 1859 )

In early 1859, abolitionist U. S. Senator William H. Seward sold Tubman a small piece of land on the outskirts of Auburn, New York for US $ 1, 200.

The first U. S. Government sponsored expedition to enter Jackson Hole was the 1859 – 60 Raynolds Expedition.

In April 1859, an expedition of U. S. Corp of Topographical Engineers led by Captain James H. Simpson left Camp Floyd ( Utah ) to establish an army supply route across the Great Basin to the eastern slope of the Sierras.

In 1859, the first U. S. petroleum was drilled north of the river at Titusville.

On December 20, 1859, U. S. patent 26, 532 was granted to the Steinway founder's son, Henry Steinway, Jr., for the Overstrung Plate.

The vacant and decaying church was re-opened, in 1859, when the U. S .- based Santa Fe Diocese added Arizona to its jurisdiction.

* Robert B. Macon ( 1859 – 1925 ), U. S. Representative from Arkansas

The U. S. portion became the Oregon Territory in 1848 ; it was later subdivided into territories that were eventually admitted as states, the first of these being Oregon itself in 1859.

Under Lt. William Echols in 1859, caravans of the U. S. Camel Corps crossed the county searching for a shorter route to Fort Davis.

A 1859 expedition of the U. S. Camel Corps under 2d Lt. Edward L. Hartz set explored the Comanche Trail through Persimmon Gap and down Tornillo Creek to the Rio Grande.

* William Alden Smith ( 1859 – 1932 ), member of the U. S. House of Representatives ( 1895 – 1906 ) and Senator ( 1905 – 1918 ) from Michigan

* William Nathan Harrell Smith ( 1812 – 1889 ), member of the U. S. House of Representatives from North Carolina ( 1859 – 1860 )

* William Orlando Smith ( 1859 – 1932 ), member of the U. S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania ( 1903 – 1906 )

In 1859 the lodge erected a permanent meeting place at what is now the intersection of Main Street ( U. S. Highway 441 ) and Alabama Avenue.

The city drew its name from nearby Fort Larned, which was established in 1859 and named for Colonel Benjamin F. Larned, U. S. Army Paymaster, July 1854 to his death, September 6, 1862.

In 1859, following complaints of Pawnee depredations against settlers in the Elkhorn River valley, a combined force of Nebraska Territorial Militia under the command of General John Milton Thayer and 2nd U. S. Army Dragoons under Lieutenant Beverly Holcombe Robertson prepared to attack a Pawnee village.

* David Settle Reid was born in Reidsville, a two-term Democratic governor of the U. S. state of North Carolina from 1851 to 1854, and a U. S. Senator from December 1854 to March 1859.