Person report

★06 Nov 1856
Scenes of Clerical Life, the first work by English author George Eliot, was submitted for publication.

★21 Oct 1858
French composer Jacques Offenbach's operetta Orpheus in the Underworld, featuring music most associated with the can-can was first performed at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens in Paris.

★04 Feb 1859
German scholar Constantin von Tischendorf rediscovered the Codex Sinaiticus, a 4th-century uncial manuscript of the Greek Bible, in Saint Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai in Egypt.

★09 Feb 1861
American Civil War: Jefferson Davis was named as the provisional president of the Confederate States of America.

★10 Jan 1863
Service began on the Metropolitan Railway between Paddington and Farringdon Street, today the oldest segment of the London Underground.

★14 May 1863
American Civil War: Union troops captured Jackson, the capital of Mississippi.

★25 Nov 1863
American Civil War: Confederate forces were defeated at the Battle of Missionary Ridge in Chattanooga, Tennessee, opening the door to the Union's invasion of the Deep South.

★12 Mar 1864
American Civil War: The Union Army began the ill-fated Red River Campaign, in which not a single objective was fully accomplished.

★12 Jun 1864
Union General Ulysses S. Grant pulled his troops out of the Battle of Cold Harbor in Hanover County, Virginia, ending one of the bloodiest, most lopsided battles in the American Civil War.

★01 Oct 1868
St Pancras railway station in London, which is now the terminus of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, opened to the public.

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