Conflicts in 1859

John Brown was an American abolitionist in the decades preceding the Civil War. First reaching national prominence in the 1850s for his radical abolitionism and fighting in Bleeding Kansas, Brown was captured, tried, and executed by the Commonwealth of Virginia for a raid and incitement of a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859.

1859 conflict, part of the Italian unification (Risorgimento)

1859 major battle of the Second Italian War of Independence

1859 battle of the Second Italian War of Independence

confrontation in 1859 between the United States and the British Empire

war conflict between Spain and Morocco (1859-1860)

1858–1861 internal conflict in Mexico

1859 battle

1859 effort by abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in Southern states

1859 battle

1859 battle

peasant revolt

two-year siege of Saigon started with its capture on February 17, 1859 by Franco-Spanish forces

1859 battle

1859 battle

battle of the Second Italian War of Independence, fought on June 3, 1859

battle 1859

conflict between Ecuador and Peru between 1857 and 1860

1858 siege at the start of the French conquest of Vietnam

series of anti-Jewish pogroms in Odesa, Ukraine (1821–1905)

uprising led by Maad a Sinig Kumba Ndoffene Famak Joof, king of Sine, against the French Empire