1859

1859 (MDCCCLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1859th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 859th year of the 2nd millennium, the 59th year of the 19th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1850s decade. As of the start of 1859, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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

1859 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1859 MDCCCLIX
Ab urbe condita	2612
Armenian calendar	1308 ԹՎ ՌՅԸ
Assyrian calendar	6609
Bahá'í calendar	15–16
Balinese saka calendar	1780–1781
Bengali calendar	1266
Berber calendar	2809
British Regnal year	22 Vict. 1 – 23 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar	2403
Burmese calendar	1221
Byzantine calendar	7367–7368
Chinese calendar	戊午年 (Earth Horse) 4555 or 4495     — to — 己未年 (Earth Goat) 4556 or 4496
Coptic calendar	1575–1576
Discordian calendar	3025
Ethiopian calendar	1851–1852
Hebrew calendar	5619–5620
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1915–1916
- Shaka Samvat	1780–1781
- Kali Yuga	4959–4960
Holocene calendar	11859
Igbo calendar	859–860
Iranian calendar	1237–1238
Islamic calendar	1275–1276
Japanese calendar	Ansei 6 (安政６年)
Javanese calendar	1787–1788
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4192
Minguo calendar	53 before ROC 民前53年
Nanakshahi calendar	391
Thai solar calendar	2401–2402
Tibetan calendar	ས་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Earth-Horse) 1985 or 1604 or 832     — to — ས་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Earth-Sheep) 1986 or 1605 or 833

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