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Key Events in the History of Nova Scotia: 1859.
- Apr 15th: The Twentieth Assembly of the Nova Scotia Legislature, first convened in 1856, was Dissolved.
- May 12th: Election Date.
- Liberals come into power and Joe Howe became Premier replacing James William Johnson who had been Premier since 1857. Joe Howe continued in his premiership until 1863.
- Alarm in England that France was now headed up by another Napoleon, Napoleon III, and an evasion might be launched. "The dockyards and arsenals of England were unprotected from attack; a royal commission on national defence, appointed in 1859, recommended the expenditure of £11,000,000 on coastal fortifications."
- Darwin's The Origin of the Species is published.
- In 1859, Sir Joseph Whitworth (1803-1887) "invented a gun of compressed steel, with spiral polygonal bore."
- The large gun that came in to vogue was the RBLs (rifled breach loaders). The RBLs represented a new era in ordnance technology and was to impact on Halifax to a very significant degree. "In Halifax, frequent reassessments of the defences by British military strategists were often followed by large-scale construction and reconstruction of the forts and batteries around the harbour."
- June 1st, daily mail service established between St. John and Halifax.
- September 9th, nearly all of Granville Street destroyed by fire.
- Halifax: An act to limit the erection of wooden buildings within a portion of the city.
- Halifax: An act in respect to a signal station.
- An Act "concerning Indian Reserved."
- [Backward In Time (1858)]
[Forward In Time (1860)]- Apr 15th: The Twentieth Assembly of the Nova Scotia Legislature, first convened in 1856, was Dissolved.
