What is 1859?
{{Year nav|1859}} {{Year in various calendars|1859}} {{Year article header|1859}} == 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 [[Category:1859| ]]