England, when philanthropist William Rathbone employs Mary Robinson to nurse the sick poor in their own homes. The island of Timor is divided between Portugal and the Netherlands. The Rancho Rincon de Los Esteros Land Grant is confirmed to Rafael Alvisa (part of the present Santa Clara County, California). Bernhard Riemann in November 1859 publishes On the Number of Primes Less Than a Given Magnitude. In his paper there is an incidental comment that later becomes the Riemann Hypothesis, one of the most important unsolved problems in Mathematics. Brisbane is declared the capital of newly separated colony Queensland, Australia. The University of Michigan Law School is founded. Karl Marx publishes A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy. John Stuart Mill publishes On Liberty. George Eliot publishes Adam Bede. Alfred, Lord Tennyson publishes the first set of Idylls of the King. The Society for Promoting the Employment of Women is founded. The Mary Institute is founded in Missouri. Tidskrift för hemmet, the first women's magazine in the Nordic countries, begins publication in Sweden. Nillmij, as predecessor of Aegon, a worldwide insurance service, founded in Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). Births January–March January 6 – Hugh Rodman, American admiral (d. 1940) January 8 – Fanny Bullock Workman, American geographer, writer and mountain climber (d. 1925) January 11 – George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, British statesman, Viceroy of India (d. 1925) January 27 – Wilhelm II of Germany, last Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia (d. 1941) January 29 – Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, American-born Parisian socialite, model for the painting Portrait of Madame X (d. 1915) February 1 Henry Miller, English-born American stage actor, producer (d. 1926) Victor Herbert, Irish-born composer (Babes In Toyland) (d. 1924) February 3 – Hugo Junkers, German industrialist, aircraft designer (d. 1935) February 5 – Louis Cheikho, Lebanese Jesuit Chaldean priest and venerable (d. 1927) February 9 – Akiyama Yoshifuru, Japanese general (d. 1930) February 10 – Alexandre Millerand, President of France (d. 1943) February 14 Henry Valentine Knaggs, English physician, author (d. 1954) George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., American inventor of the Ferris wheel (d. 1896) February 19 – Svante Arrhenius, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1927) February 25 – Vasil Kutinchev, Bulgarian general (d. 1941) February 26 – Louise DeKoven Bowen, American philanthropist, activist (d. 1953) February 28 – Florian Cajori, Swiss historian of mathematics (d. 1930) March 2 –