the Sundarbans as result of Rahimullah's home being sieged, killing 34 in total A tenement collapses in the Old Town, Edinburgh (Scotland), killing 35 with 15 survivors. November 28 – Acting on the ordinance passed by the Jackson government, the Confederate Congress admits Missouri as the 12th Confederate state. December 10 American Civil War: Kentucky is accepted into the Confederate States of America. In southern French Indochina, resistance forces led by Nguyễn Trung Trực ambush, board and sink the French lorcha (boat) L'Esperance on the Nhat Tao canal. December 21 - Medal of Honor: Public Resolution 82, containing a provision for a Navy Medal of Valor, is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln. Date unknown The British Empire establishes bases in Lagos to stop the slave trade. The Perpetual Truce of Peace and Friendship is signed between Bahrain and the United Kingdom. The first industrial meat packing plant in Uruguay is established, at Fray Bentos. The Royal Seminary becomes the first public institution of higher academic learning open to women in Sweden. Births January–June January 5 – Robert Lee Bullard, American general (d. 1947) January 6 – Victor Horta, Belgian architect and designer (d. 1947) January 10 – Germogen (Maximov), Russian Orthodox Metropolitan (d. 1945) January 14 – Mehmed VI, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1926) January 27 – Constantin Prezan, Romanian general, Marshal of Romania (d. 1943) January 28 Julián Felipe, Filipino musician, bandleader (d. 1944) Ramón Meza y Suárez Inclán, Cuban literary critic, historian, professor and author (d. 1911) January 30 – Charles Martin Loeffler, American composer (d. 1935) February 12 – Lou Andreas-Salomé, Russian-born author (d. 1937) February 15 Charles Édouard Guillaume, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1938) Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician and philosopher (d. 1947) February 17 – Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Duchess of Albany, German-born member of the British royal family (d. 1922) February 19 – Henry Horne, 1st Baron Horne, British general (d. 1929) February 22 Mabelle Biggart, American elocutionist (unknown year of death) Katō Tomosaburō, Imperial Japanese Navy officer, 12th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1923) February 26 – King Ferdinand I of Bulgaria (d. 1948) February 27 – Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher, social reformer and author (d. 1925) March 2 – Nikola Ivanov, Bulgarian general (d. 1940) March 21 – Charles Swickard, German-American film director (d. 1929) April 6 – Stanislas de Guaita, French poet (d. 1897) April 8