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Fenton's pictures during the Crimean War were one of the first cases of war photography, with Valley of the Shadow of Death considered "the most eloquent metaphor of warfare" by The Oxford Companion to the Photograph. [13] [14] [s 3] Sergeant Dawson and his Daughter: 1855 Unknown; attributed to John Jabez Edwin Mayall [15] Unknown [e]
May 31 – Peter Vivian Daniel, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court from 1841 to 1860 (born 1784) June 6 – Henry P. Haun, U.S. Senator from California from 1859 to 1860 (born 1815) July 1 – Charles Goodyear, inventor (born 1800) September 12 – William Walker, filibuster, briefly President of Nicaragua, executed (born 1824)
6 April – Henry Willis, New South Wales politician (d. 1950) 20 June – Jack Worrall, Australian rules footballer , cricketer and journalist (d. 1937) 23 June – Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer, evolutionary biologist, anthropologist, and ethnologist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1929) 27 July – Carty Salmon, Victorian politician (d. 1917)
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Franklin Lafayette Riley Jr. (August 24, 1868 – November 10, 1929) was an American historian. The title of his dissertation was Colonial Origins of New England Senates . [ 1 ] After receiving his doctorate from the Johns Hopkins University he was appointed as the first Professor of History at Ole Miss .
Riley is a surname of English origin, as well as an Anglicized version of an Irish surname.. The name has the meaning "rye clearing", or is from one of several placenames, including High Riley in Accrington, Lancashire, and in Devon.
The 1860 United States presidential election in Ohio took place on November 6, 1860, as part of the 1860 United States presidential election. Voters chose 23 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College , who voted for president and vice president .
Johannes Brahms. Vier Gesänge, for women's chorus, two horns and harp, Op. 17; String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat major, Op. 18; Karl Davydov – Fantasie über russische Lieder, Op.7