They have a poetry section every month. The 2000 edition is out already. Russian fleet arrives at Nagasaki aiming to open trade relations and resolve boundaries in the Kuriles and Sakhalin. Franklin Pierce is inaugurated as the 14 th President of the United States. Turkey declares war on Russia, beginning the Crimean War.
Peace is declared between Britain and Burma.
Britain annexes Mahratta State of Nagpur. Brunswick, Hanover, and Oldenburg join the German Zollverein, bringing all non- Austrian states into the customs union founded in 1833. Transportation of British convicts to Van Dieman's Land ends after a half-century in which some 67,000 convicts have landed on the island now renamed Tasmania. The Massachusetts Constitution Convention receives a petition to permit woman suffrage. The appeal comes from the wife of educator and social reformer Amos B. Alcott and 73 other women.