Wars, battles and sieges37
- Second Italian War of IndependenceWars & conflicts
- Battle of SolferinoBattles
- Pig WarWars & conflicts
- Battle of MagentaBattles
- Hispano-Moroccan War1859–1860 · Wars & conflicts
- Battle of MontebelloBattles
- Battle of PalestroBattles
- Battle of VareseBattles
- Battle of San FermoBattles
- Banjarmasin War1859–1863 · Wars & conflicts
- Battle of Taku FortsBattles
- Battle of CepedaBattles
- Battle of TurbigoBattles
- Feriköy Protestant CemeteryWars & conflicts
- Battle of LogandèmeBattles
- Battle of San MartinoBattles
- Battle of Sierra BullonesBattles
- Battle of TrepontiBattles
- Battle of BoffaloraBattles
- Battle of GhunibSieges
- Crimean War MemorialWars & conflicts
- Indian Mound CemeteryWars & conflicts
- Battle of MelegnanoBattles
- Capture of VedenoBattles
- Cortina TroublesWars & conflicts
- Westminster Scholars War MemorialWars & conflicts
- Battle of Cerro GrandeBattles
- Battle of TlatempaBattles
- First Siege of VeracruzSieges
- Battle of La EbonalBattles
- Battle of MaipónBattles
- Battle of MedoleBattles
- Battle of Rio Grande CityBattles
- Capture of CoroBattles
- Capture of TalcaBattles
- La SampableraBattles
- Valtellina InsurrectionWars & conflicts
Revolts, massacres and attacks6
- John Brown's raid on Harpers FerryRevolts & coups
- 1859 Perugia uprisingRevolts & coups
- Bombing of MartilAttacks
- Hospital Creek massacreMassacres
- Eliot School rebellionRevolts & coups
- New Year’s Revolt of 18601859–1860 · Revolts & coups
Accidents and fires6
- HMS ConwayAccidents
- South Bend train wreckAccidents
- Anne CatherineAccidents
- Granville Street FireFires & explosions
- John JamesAccidents
- ThomasAccidents
Expeditions4
- Prussian expedition to East Asia (1859-1862)1859–1862 · Expeditions
- Expedition against the Beni-SnassenExpeditions
- Second Fiji ExpeditionExpeditions
- Pitt River ExpeditionExpeditions
Treaties, councils and politics3
- Treaty of VillafrancaTreaties
- Treaty of ZürichTreaties
- Treaty of LisbonTreaties
Disasters3
- 1859 Shamakhi earthquakeNatural disasters
- Erzurum earthquake of 1859Natural disasters
- Royal Charter StormNatural disasters
Already under way in 185985
- Second Opium War1856–1860 · Wars & conflicts
- Taiping Rebellion1850–1864 · Wars & conflicts
- Opium Wars1839–1860 · Wars & conflicts
- Caucasian War1763–1864 · Wars & conflicts
- Russo-Turkish Wars1568–1918 · Wars & conflicts
- American Indian Wars1609–1924 · Wars & conflicts
- Circassian genocide1800–1864 · Massacres
- Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War1651–1986 · Wars & conflicts
- Chechen–Russian conflict1785–2017 · Wars & conflicts
- Carlist Wars1833–1876 · Wars & conflicts
- Bleeding Kansas1854–1861 · Wars & conflicts
- Anglo-Burmese Wars1824–1886 · Wars & conflicts
- New Zealand Wars1845–1872 · Wars & conflicts
- French conquest of Algeria1830–1904 · Wars & conflicts
- Reform War1857–1861 · Wars & conflicts
Came to an end in 18594
- 1859 Haitian Revolution1858–1859 · Revolts & coups
- Mohave War1858–1859 · Wars & conflicts
- North–South War of the Lushai Hills1856–1859 · Wars & conflicts
- Paraguay expedition1858–1859 · Wars & conflicts
Founded or built in 185976
- United Principalities of Moldavia and WallachiaStates & realms
- Baku GovernorateStates & realms
- Norwegian University of Life SciencesUniversities
- Moncada BarracksBuildings
- Gare de la BastilleTransport
- Mandalay PalacePalaces
- Goethe HouseMonuments
- Tennessee State CapitolBuildings
- Stora TeaternTheatres
- Valparaiso UniversityUniversities
- Sosnowiec GłównyMonuments
- Ibrohim Oxund MadrasaSchools
- Crom CastlePalaces
- Scrabo TowerMonuments
- J WardMuseums & galleries
- Botanical Garden BernMuseums & galleries
- Quintin CastlePalaces
- Rosehill CemeteryCemeteries
- Whitman CollegeUniversities
- Cathedral BridgeBridges & tunnels
- Echmiadzinsky UyezdStates & realms
- Former British Consulate of HakodateGovernment
- KönigsbauBuildings
- Wilsons Promontory LighthouseMonuments
- Circle of LodiStates & realms
- Circle of MonzaStates & realms
- Circle of VogheraStates & realms
- Circondario of AbbiategrassoStates & realms
- Clock Tower of XanthiTowers
- Plaça de BrausBuildings
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