What Happened In April 1859 In History

Historical Events for April, 1859

• 25th » British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.

Famous Birthdays on April in 1859

• 7th » Walter Camp, American football player and coach (d. 1925)
• 8th » Edmund Husserl, Austrian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1938)
• 11th » Stefanos Thomopoulos, Greek historian (d. 1939)

Famous Deaths for April 1859

• 16th » Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (France) or French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1805)
• 18th » Tatya Tope, Indian general (b. 1814)

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