1859

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1859 was 12 years before the founding of the City of Birmingham and the 40th year of Alabama statehood.

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In 1859, the Taiping Rebellion and Second Opium War continued. Oregon was admitted as a state. Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities was published. Ground was broken for the Suez Canal. The Great Clock at the Palace of Westminster, housing Big Ben, was started. The first oil well in the U.S. was drilled. John Brown raided the Harpers Ferry Armory in Virginia. Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species.

Notable births in 1859 included composer Victor Herbert, author Kenneth Grahame, physicist Pierre Curie, writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and outlaw Billy the Kid. Notable deaths included abolitionist Horace Mann, author Washington Irving, and abolitionist John Brown (executed).

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