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1859 was a year.
Events
Dated
On 1 September, Earth experienced the Carrington Event, one of the biggest solar storms on record. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary)
Undated
Henry Gordon Jago began working in the music halls. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang)
The Eighth Doctor and Charley Pollard visited Tanganyika in the hope of meeting the Victorian explorer Pieter Mon Marchè. (AUDIO: The Man Who Wasn't Three)
The novel A Tale of Two Cities was published. (AUDIO: The Pursuit of History)
Other
On 15 November, there were exactly 1,000,300,558 human beings on Earth, according to the Bi-Al Foundation's genealogical database. (AUDIO: The Pursuit of History)
Queen Victoria sat on the throne of Great Britain and Ireland. (AUDIO: The Pursuit of History)