What Happened In May 1859 In History

Historical Events for May, 1859

• 4th » The Cornwall Railway opens across the Royal Albert Bridge linking the counties of Devon and Cornwall in England.
• 31st » The clock tower at the Palace of Westminster called Houses of Parliament, which houses Big Ben, starts keeping time.

Famous Birthdays on May in 1859

• 2nd » Jerome K. Jerome, English author (d. 1927)
• 3rd » Andy Adams (writer) or Andy Adams, American author (d. 1935)
• 8th » Johan Jensen (mathematician) named Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician and engineer (d. 1925)
• 12th » William Alden Smith, American politician (d. 1932)
• 15th » Pierre Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics known as Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1906)
• 22nd » Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish physician and author (d. 1930)
• 22nd » Tsubouchi Shōyō, Japanese author, playwright, and educator (d. 1935)
• 23rd » Joseph-Alfred Archambeault, Canadian bishop (d. 1913)

Famous Deaths for May 1859

• 4th » Joseph Diaz Gergonne, French mathematician (b. 1771)
• 5th » Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, German mathematician and academic (b. 1805)
• 6th » Alexander von Humboldt, German geographer and explorer (b. 1769)
• 12th » Sergey Aksakov, Russian author (b. 1791)
• 22nd » Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies (b. 1810)

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