Record Data Place Unit Type Continent Events Date Type 02/28/1849 First ship in regular service from New York to California via Cape Horn arrives in San Francisco Commercial People Places Name Type Argentina Nation Bolivia Nation Brazil Nation Chile Nation Colombia Nation Ecuador Nation Paraguay Nation Peru Nation Suriname Nation Uruguay Nation Venezuela Nation Documents Date Title 10/15/1857 Washington (DC) National Era, "The Union," October 15, 1857 02/15/1858 Charleston (SC) Mercury, "Runaway Negros," February 15, 1858 03/20/1859 New Orleans (LA) Picayune, “Russia and America,” March 20, 1859 05/14/1859 James Buchanan to Harriet Rebecca Lane, May 14, 1859 02/01/1860 Boston (MA) Herald, "Where Shall They Go?," February 1, 1860 05/13/1860 New York Herald, “The Quarantine Question and the Approaching Summer,” May 13, 1860 05/29/1860 Chillicothe (OH) Scioto Gazette, “"The Awful Horrors of the Middle-Passage,"” May 29, 1860 Images South America, 1857, zoomable map World, globular projection, 1857, zoomable map World, Hemisphere Projections, 1866, zoomable map
