1855
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Year 1855 (MDCCCLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).
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[edit] Events of 1855
[edit] January - June
- January 1 - Ottawa is incorporated as a city.
- January 23 - The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, a crossing made today by the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge.
- January 23 - The region of Wairarapa, New Zealand was hit by the strongest earthquake ever recorded in New Zealand, which reached Magnitude 8.1 on the Richter Scale. There were five deaths.
- January 26 - Point No Point Treaty signed in Washington Territory.
- January 27 - The Panama Railway becomes the first railroad to connect the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean.
- 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 22 - Pennsylvania State University is founded as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania.
- March 3 - US Congress appropriates $30,000 to create US Camel Corps
- March 17 - Taiping Rebellion: A Taiping army of 350,000 invades Anhui.
- March 30 - Elections held for first Kansas Territory legislature. Missourians cross border in large numbers to elect proslavery body.
- May 15 - The Great Gold Robbery of 1855 in England.
- June 29 - The Daily Telegraph begins publication.
[edit] July - December
- July 2 - Kansas Territorial legislature convenes in Pawnee and begins passing proslavery laws.
- September 3 - Last Bartholomew Fair in London, England.
- September 11 - Sevastapol falls to the British troops.
- November 17 - David Livingstone becomes the first European to see Victoria Falls in what is now present-day Zambia-Zimbabwe.
- November 21 - Large-scale Bleeding Kansas violence begins with events leading to "Wakarusa War" between antislavery and proslavery forces.
- December 22 - Metropolitan Board of Works established.
[edit] Undated
- Stamp duty was removed from newspapers in Britain creating mass market media in the UK.
[edit] Ongoing events
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1855 MDCCCLV
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| Ab urbe condita | 2608 |
| Armenian calendar | 1304 ԹՎ ՌՅԴ |
| Bahá'í calendar | 11 – 12 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2399 |
| Coptic calendar | 1571 – 1572 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1847 – 1848 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5615 – 5616 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1910 – 1911 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1777 – 1778 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4956 – 4957 |
| Holocene calendar | 11855 |
| Iranian calendar | 1233 – 1234 |
| Islamic calendar | 1271 – 1272 |
| Japanese calendar | Ansei
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| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2515 (皇紀2515年) |
| Julian calendar | 1900 |
| Korean calendar | 4188 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2398 |
- January 5 - King Camp Gillette, American inventor (d. 1932)
- January 20 - Ernest Chausson, French composer (d. 1899)
- January 21 - John Moses Browning, American firearms inventor (d. 1926)
- January 28 - William Seward Burroughs, American bank clerk and inventor (d. 1898)
- March 13 - Percival Lowell, American astronomer (d. 1916)
- March 24 - Andrew Mellon, American banker and philanthropist (d. 1937)
- April 21 - Hardy Richardson, 19th century baseball player (d. 1931)
- April 27 - Caroline Rémy, French feminist (d. 1929)
- May 1 - Marie Corelli, English novelist (d. 1924)
- May 9 - Julius Röntgen, German-Dutch classical composer (d. 1932)
- May 10 - Sri Yukteswar Giri, Author of The Holy Science
- July 26 - Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist (d. 1936)
- October 12 - Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor (d. 1922)
- October 21 - Howard Hyde Russell, American activist (d. 1946)
- November 5 - Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (d. 1913)
- November 6 - Ezra Seymour Gosney, American philanthropist and eugenicist (d. 1942)
- December 28 - John William Wood Sr., North Carolinan politician, founder of Benson (d. 1928)
- See also 1855 births.
[edit] Deaths
- January 6 - Giacomo Beltrami, Italian explorer (b. 1779)
- January 10 - Mary Russell Mitford, English novelist and dramatist (b. 1787)
- 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 - Nicholas I of Russia, the 11th Russian Tsar (b. 1796)
- 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)
- June 28 - Fitzroy Somerset, commander of British forces in the Crimean War (b. 1788)
- June 28 - Pavel Nakhimov, Russian admiral (b. 1802)
- August 7 - Mariano Arista, President of Mexico (b. 1802)
- November 11 - Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (b. 1813)
- November 26 - Adam Mickiewicz, Lithuanian - Polish poet and writer (b. 1798)
[edit] People of the year 1855 at Familypedia
31 people were born in 1855
17 people died in 1855
1543 people lived in 1855
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