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1855 (MDCCCLV) was
a common year starting
on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and
a common
year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1855th year of
the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the
855th year of the 2nd millennium,
the 55th year of the 19th century,
and the 6th year of the 1850s decade. As of
the start of 1855, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian
calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January–March[edit] ·
January 1 – Ottawa, Ontario is incorporated as a city. ·
January 5 – Ramón Castilla begins
his third term as President of Peru. ·
The
first bridge over the Mississippi River opens
in what is now Minneapolis, a
predecessor of the modern-day Father Louis
Hennepin Bridge. ·
The
8.2–8.3 Mw Wairarapa
earthquake claims between five and nine lives, near the Cook Strait area of New Zealand. ·
January 26 – The Point No Point
Treaty is signed in the Washington Territory. ·
January 27 – The Panama Railway becomes the first
railroad to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. ·
January 29 – Lord
Aberdeen resigns as Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom, over the management of the Crimean War. ·
February 5 – Lord
Palmerston becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. ·
February 11 – Kassa Hailu is
crowned Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia. ·
February 12 – Michigan State
University (the "pioneer" land-grant college)
is established. ·
February 15 – The North
Carolina General Assembly incorporates the Western
North Carolina Railroad, to build a rail line from Salisbury to
the western part of the state.[1] ·
February 22 – Pennsylvania
State University is founded, as the Farmers' High School of
Pennsylvania. ·
March 2 – Alexander II ascends
the Russian throne, upon the death of his father Nicholas I. ·
March 3 – The United States
Congress appropriates $30,000 to create the U.S. Camel Corps. ·
March 16 – Bates College is founded by
abolitionists in Lewiston, Maine. ·
March 17 – Taiping Rebellion:
A Taiping army of 350,000 invades Anhui. ·
March 30 – Elections are held for the
first Kansas Territory legislature. Missourians cross the border in large
numbers, to elect a pro-slavery body. April–June[edit] ·
April 3 – The Nepalese invasion of Tibet starts the Nepalese–Tibetan War (1855-1856).[2] ·
May 1 – Van Diemen's Land is
separated administratively from New South Wales, and granted self-government. ·
May 15 ·
The Exposition
Universelle officially opens in Paris (a direct result of the
exhibition is the introduction of the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855).[3] ·
The Great Gold Robbery is
made, from a train between London Bridge and Folkestone in England.[4] ·
May 17 – Mount
Sinai Hospital, New York, is dedicated (as the Jews' Hospital) in
New York City; it opens to patients on June 5. ·
May 22 – The province of Victoria is
separated administratively from New South Wales. ·
June 15 – Stamp duty is removed from British
newspapers, creating mass media in
the United Kingdom. ·
June 29 – The Daily Telegraph newspaper
begins publication in London. July–September[edit] ·
July 1 – The Quinault Treaty signed the Quinault and Quileute tribes cede their land to the
United States. ·
July 2 – The Kansas territorial
legislature convenes in Pawnee, and begins passing proslavery laws. ·
July 4 – Walt Whitman's poetry collection Leaves of Grass is published
in Brooklyn. ·
July 16 – The Australian Colonies are
granted self-governing status by the United Kingdom. ·
August 1 – Monte Rosa, the second highest summit in the
Alps, is first ascended. ·
September 3 – The last Bartholomew Fair is held in London,
England. ·
September 9 (August 28 O.S.)
– Crimean War – Siege of
Sevastopol (1854–55): Sevastopol falls to French and British
troops. ·
September 27 – Alfred Tennyson reads from his new
book Maud and other poems,
at a social gathering in the home of Robert and Elizabeth
Browning in London; Dante Gabriel
Rossetti makes a sketch of him doing so.[5] ·
September 29 – Iloilo is opened to world trade,
by Queen Isabella II of Spain .[6][7] October–December[edit] ·
October 17 – Henry Bessemer files his patent in the United Kingdom, for
the Bessemer process of steelmaking.[8] ·
October 24 – Van Diemen's Land is
officially renamed Tasmania. ·
November 17 – Scottish missionary explorer David Livingstone becomes
the first European to see Victoria Falls,
in modern-day Zambia–Zimbabwe.[9] ·
November 21 – Large-scale Bleeding Kansas violence begins, with
events leading to the 'Wakarusa War'
between antislavery and proslavery forces. ·
December 22 – The Metropolitan
Board of Works is established in London. Date unknown[edit] ·
Colt's
Manufacturing Company is incorporated. ·
The cocaine alkaloid is first isolated by
German chemist Friedrich Gaedcke. ·
Palm oil sales from West Africa to the
United Kingdom reach 40,000 tons. ·
Sual
(present-day Pangasinan) and Zamboanga open to world trade. Births[edit] January–June[edit] ·
January 5 – King Camp Gillette,
American razor inventor (d. 1932) ·
January 20 – Ernest Chausson, French composer (d. 1899) ·
John Moses Browning,
American firearms inventor (d. 1926) ·
Henry
B. Jackson, British admiral (d. 1929) ·
February 4 – George Cope,
American painter (d. 1929) ·
February 6 – Barbara Galpin, American journalist
(d. 1922) ·
February 12 – Marie-Anne de Bovet,
French writer ·
February 13 – Paul Deschanel, President of France
(d. 1922) ·
February 17 – Otto Liman von
Sanders, German general (d. 1929) ·
February 20 – John R. Lindgren, American founder of the
banking firm Haugan &
Lindgren (d. 1915) ·
March 4 – Luther Emmett Holt,
American pediatrician (d. 1924) ·
March 13 – Percival Lowell, American astronomer
(d. 1916) ·
March 24 – Andrew W. Mellon, American banker,
philanthropist (d. 1937) ·
March 25 – Grace Carew Sheldon,
American journalist and businesswoman (d. 1921) ·
April 9 ·
Pavlos Kountouriotis,
Greek admiral, 2-time president (d. 1935) ·
John Marden, Australian headmaster, pioneer
of women's education (d. 1924) ·
April 21 – Hardy Richardson, American baseball player
(d. 1931) ·
April 27 – Caroline Rémy
de Guebhard, French feminist (d. 1929) ·
May 1 – Marie Corelli, English novelist (d. 1924) ·
May 8 – Bohuslav Brauner, Czech chemist (d. 1935) ·
May 9 – Julius Röntgen,
German-Dutch classical composer (d. 1932) ·
May 10 – Swami Sri
Yukteswar Giri, Bengali yogi, author of The Holy Science (d. 1936) ·
May 21 – Emile Verhaeren, Belgian poet (d. 1916) ·
May 23 – Isabella Ford, English socialist, feminist,
trade unionist and writer (d. 1924) ·
May 28 – Emilio Estrada
Carmona, 18th President of Ecuador (d. 1911) ·
June 1 – Edward Angle, American dentist (d. 1930) ·
June 2 – Archibald
Berkeley Milne, British admiral (d. 1938) ·
June 14 – Robert M. La
Follette Sr., American politician (d. 1925) ·
June 18 – Alice Sudduth Byerly,
American temperance activist (d. 1904) ·
June 28 – Theodor Reuss, German occultist (d. 1923) July–December[edit] ·
July 26 – Ferdinand Tönnies,
German sociologist (d. 1936) ·
August 4 – Jay Hunt,
American film director (d. 1932) ·
August 25 – Hugo von Pohl, German admiral (d. 1916) ·
August 28 – Alexander Bethell,
British admiral (d. 1932) ·
August 31 – Vsevolod Rudnev, Russian admiral (d. 1913) ·
September 5 – Henry Victor Deligny,
French general (d. 1938) ·
September 8 – Marieta de
Veintemilla, Ecuadorian first lady, women's rights activist
(d. 1907) ·
September 9 – Houston
Stewart Chamberlain, British-born German writer (d. 1927) ·
September 17 – Effie Ellsler, American stage actress
(d. 1942) ·
September 25 – James P. Parker, United States Navy
commodore (d. 1942) ·
October 10 – Eduard von Capelle,
German admiral (d. 1931) ·
October 12 – Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor
(d. 1922) ·
October 21 – Howard Hyde Russell,
American activist (d. 1946) ·
October 24 – James S. Sherman, 27th Vice
President of the United States (d. 1912) ·
October 26 – Jessie Wilson
Manning, American author and lecturer (unknown year of death) ·
November 1 – Templin Potts, American naval officer;
11th Naval Governor of
Guam (d. 1927) ·
Léon Teisserenc
de Bort, French meteorologist (d. 1913) ·
Eugene V. Debs, American union leader
(d. 1926) ·
November 6 – Ezra Seymour Gosney, American
philanthropist, eugenicist (d. 1942) ·
November 8 – Nikolaos
Triantafyllakos, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1939) ·
November 8 – Nikolaos
Triantafyllakos, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1939) ·
December 16 – Alice Mary Dowd, American educator, poet
(unknown year of death) ·
December 28 – John William Wood,
Sr., North Carolinan politician, founder of Benson, North Carolina (d. 1928) ·
December 29 – William
Thompson Sedgwick, American teacher, epidemiologist and
bacteriologist (d. 1921) Unknown date[edit] ·
Flora Haines
Loughead, American miner; mother of Allan Lockheed, founder of Lockheed
aerospace company (d. 1943) ·
Katharine
A. O'Keeffe O'Mahoney, Irish-born American teacher of poetry
to Robert Frost (d. 1918) Deaths[edit] January–June[edit] ·
January 6 – Giacomo Beltrami, Italian explorer (b. 1779) ·
January 10 – Mary Russell Mitford,
English novelist, dramatist (b. 1787) ·
January 15 – Henri Braconnot, French chemist, pharmacist
(b. 1780) ·
January 26 – Gérard de Nerval,
French writer (b. 1808) ·
February 6 – Josef Munzinger, Member of the Swiss Federal
Council (b. 1791) ·
February 23 – Carl Friedrich Gauss,
German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (b. 1777) ·
March 2 – Emperor Nicholas I of Russia (b. 1796) ·
March 8 – William Poole, infamous member of New York
City's Bowery Boys Gang
(b. 1821) ·
March 29 – Henri Druey, member of the Swiss Federal
Council (b. 1799) ·
March 31 – Charlotte Brontë,
English author (b. 1816) ·
May 5 – Robert
Inglis, English politician (b. 1786) ·
May 23 – Charles Robert
Malden, English explorer (b. 1797) ·
May 30 – Mary Reibey, Australian businesswoman
(b. 1777) ·
June 7 – Friederike Lienig,
Latvian entomologist (b. 1790) ·
June 28 – FitzRoy
Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, commander of British forces in the
Crimean War (b. 1788) July–December[edit] ·
July 12 (June 30 O.S.)
– Pavel Nakhimov,
Russian admiral (b. 1802) ·
August 7 – Mariano Arista, President of Mexico
(b. 1802) ·
August 12 – Helen Hunt Jackson,
American activist (b. 1830) ·
August 30 – Feargus O'Connor,
British political radical, Chartist leader (b. 1794) ·
September 7 – William Barton
Wade Dent, U.S. Congressman (b. 1806) ·
November 11 – Søren Kierkegaard,
Danish philosopher (b. 1813) ·
September 20 – José Trinidad Reyes,
Honduran Father, national hero, and founder of Autonomous National University
of Honduras (b. 1797) ·
November 26 – Adam Mickiewicz, Lithuanian-Polish poet,
writer (b. 1798) ·
December 6 – William John
Swainson, English naturalist, artist (b. 1789) References[edit] 1.
^ "Railroad — Western North Carolina Railroad". North
Carolina Business History. historync.org. 2006. Archived from the
original on October 30, 2013. Retrieved 2013-05-09. 2.
^ Rose, Leo E. (1971). Nepal: Strategy for
Survival. University of California Press. pp. 110–111. 3.
^ Wine-Searcher. "Classification of Medoc and Graves of 1855".
wine-searcher.com. Archived from the original on March 30, 2010.. 4.
^ Hanrahan, David C. (2011). The First Great Train
Robbery. London: Robert Hale. ISBN 978-0-7090-9040-3. 5.
^ "Tennyson Reading 'Maud'". Pre-Raphaelite Online
Resource. Birmingham
Museums & Art Gallery. Retrieved 2013-05-09. 6.
^ Demy Sonza. "The Port of Iloilo: 1855 - 2005". Graciano
Lopez-Jaena Life and Works and Iloilo History Online Resource. Dr.
Graciano Lopez-Jaena (DGLJ) Foundation, Inc. Archived from the original on January 19, 2016.
Retrieved January 31, 2016.. 7.
^ Henry Funtecha. "Iloilo's position under colonial rule".
thenewstoday.info.. 8.
^ van Dulken, Stephen (2001). Inventing the 19th
Century: the great age of Victorian inventions. London: British Library. pp. 30–1. ISBN 0-7123-0881-4. 9.
^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin
Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0. Further reading[edit] ·
Louis Heilprin (1885). "Chronological Table of Universal History". Historical
Reference Book. New York: D. Appleton and Company – via Hathi
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