attempts. The service ends on September 1, due to weak current. August 7 – A football match, played under an unknown set of rules, is held between Melbourne Grammar School and Scotch College. August 11 – The Eiger is first ascended. August 16 – U.S. President James Buchanan inaugurates the new trans-Atlantic telegraph cable, by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria. However, a weak signal forces a shutdown of the service in a few weeks. August 21 – The first of the Lincoln–Douglas debates is held in Illinois. September – Cochinchina Campaign: French warships, under Charles Rigault de Genouilly, attack and occupy Da Nang, Vietnam. September 11 – Dom, the third-highest summit in the Alps, is first ascended. October–December October 21 – Jacques Offenbach's operetta Orpheus in the Underworld, featuring music associated with the can-can, is first performed in Paris. October 28 – Macy's department store, founded by R. H. Macy, opens for business in New York City. November 12 – Johann II, Prince of Liechtenstein, succeeds to the throne aged 18; he will rule until his death in 1929, the second-longest in European royal history and the longest precisely documented tenure of any monarch without a regent since antiquity. November 16 – The 2,400,000th day of the Epoch of the Julian day is reached. November 17 The city of Denver, Colorado, is founded. Modified Julian Day zero. December 7 — Mexican Conservative interim president Félix María Zuloaga proclaims the Plan of Tacubaya to abolish the Reform Laws, setting off a three-year civil war (1857–1860). December 24 — Manuel Robles Pezuela (1817–1862) becomes Conservative president of Mexico. December 29 – The Northern Railway Company is established in Madrid, Spain, with a purpose to construct the Northern Railway. December 30 – Paraguay expedition: Seventeen U.S. Navy warships, under the command of William Shubrick, depart from Uruguay on a mission to demand concessions from Paraguay, and to go to war if necessary. Date unknown The Russian Empire changes its flag. William M. Tweed begins his 13-year term as "Boss" of Tammany Hall. The haute couture firm of Worth and Bobergh is established in Paris. The Miners Association is established in Cornwall, England, UK. Feudalism and serfdom in Bulgaria are abolished in the Ottoman Empire (practically in 1880). Squibb Pharmacy, as predecessor of Bristol-Myers Squibb, a worldwide pharmaceutical brand, is founded in New York, United States. Births January–June January 7 – Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Russian-born