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October 16 – John Brown raids the Harpers Ferry Armory in Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in an unsuccessful bid to spark a general slave rebellion. October 18 – Troops under Colonel Robert E. Lee overpower John Brown at the Federal arsenal.
Alexander von Humboldt. Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 1769 – 6 May 1859) was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. [2] He was the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher, and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835).
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The Carrington Event was the most intense geomagnetic storm in recorded history, peaking on 1–2 September 1859 during solar cycle 10. It created strong auroral displays that were reported globally [1] and caused sparking and even fires [citation needed] in multiple telegraph stations.
1859 ( MDCCCLIX ) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1859th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 859th year of the 2nd millennium, the 59th year of the 19th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1850s decade.
August 27 – Edwin Drake drills the first oil well in the United States, near Titusville, Pennsylvania, starting the Pennsylvanian oil rush. September – Joshua Abraham Norton proclaims himself "Emperor of the United States" in San Francisco.
9月1日 - リチャード・キャリントンが初めて太陽フレアを観測（1859年の太陽嵐）大規模磁気嵐発生（ - 9月2日）（オーロラがキューバでも観測、電信途絶） 9月6日（安政6年8月10日） - 仏国初代駐日総領事ベルクールが江戸に着任
Alfred Dreyfus ( French: [alfʁɛd dʁɛfys], German: [ˈalfʁeːt ˈdʁaɪfuːs]; 9 October 1859 – 12 July 1935) was a French artillery officer of Alsatian origin and Jewish faith. In 1894, he fell victim to a judicial conspiracy that sparked a major political crisis during the Third Republic, known as the Dreyfus Affair (1894-1906), when he ...
