1859

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1820s  1830s  1840s  – 1850s –  1860s  1870s  1880s
Years:	1856 1857 1858 – 1859 – 1860 1861 1862

Events

• The Suez Canal begins to be built in Egypt.
• January 24 - Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexander John Cuza under the name Romania (see December 1 1918 for the final unification, Transylvania and other regions are still missing at that time).

Deaths

• Date unknown – Mahmud Bayazidi, Kurdish polymath
• John Brown