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[[File:Edouard Dubufe Congrès de Paris.jpg|thumb|[[March 30]]: ''[[The Congress of Paris]]'' by [[Édouard Dubufe]]. The [[Treaty of Paris (1856)|Treaty of Paris]] was signed ending the [[Crimean War]]]]
[[File:Southern Chivalry.jpg|thumb|[[May 22]]: [[Caning of Charles Sumner|Charles Sumner is caned on the floor of the American Senate]]]]
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=== January–March ===
* [[January 8]] – [[Borax]] deposits are discovered in large quantities by [[John Veatch]] in [[California]].<ref>[https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fve02 Veatch, John Allen, Texas State Historical Association]</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Linsley |first1=Judith |last2=Rienstrad |first2=Ellen |last3=Stiles |first3=Jo |title=Giant Under the Hill, A History of the Spindletop Oil Discovery at Beaumont, Texas in 1901 |date=2002 |publisher=Texas State Historical Association |location=Austin |isbn=9780876112366 |pages=9–11}}</ref>
* [[January 23]] – The American [[sidewheel steamer]] [[SS Pacific (1849)|SS ''Pacific'']] leaves [[Liverpool]] (England) for a transatlantic voyage on which she will be lost with all 186 on board.<ref name=":Shipping Gazette">{{Cite news|agency=London Shipping Gazette|author=<!--not stated-->|date=1861-08-07|title=Reminisecence of the Lost Steamship Pacific.; INTERESTING STATEMENT.|quote=Our readers may have observed recently, amongst our maritime extracts, the copy of the contents of a slip of paper, found in a bottle some weeks ago, on the western coast of Uls, in the Hebrides, and forwarded to us by our agent at Sternoway. The paper in question, apparently the leaf of a pocketbook, used in the hurry of the moment, was covered on both sides with pencil marks, from which the following was with difficulty deciphered: ''On board the Pacific, from L'pool to N. York. Ship going down. (Great) confusion on board. Icebergs around us on every side. I know I cannot escape. I write the cause of our loss, that friends may not live in suspense. The finder of this will please get it published, WM. GRAHAM.'' If we are right in our conjecture, the ship here named is the Pacific, one of the Collins line of steamers, which vessel left Liverpool on Jan. 23, 1856, three days before the Persia, and has not since been heard of; and this slip of paper, three inches by two, is probably the only record of the fate of that missing ship. |language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1861/08/07/archives/reminisecence-of-the-lost-steamship-pacific-interesting-statement.html|access-date=2020-10-30|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
* [[January 24]] – U.S. President [[Franklin Pierce]] declares the new [[Free-Stater (Kansas)|Free-State]] [[Topeka Constitution|Topeka government]] in "[[Bleeding Kansas]]" to be in rebellion.
* [[January 26]] – First [[Battle of Seattle (1856)|Battle of Seattle]]: Marines from the {{USS|Decatur|1839|6}} suppress an indigenous uprising, in response to Governor Stevens' declaration of a "war of extermination" on Native communities.
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