Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1820s  1830s  1840s  – 1850s –  1860s  1870s  1880s
Years:	1852 1853 1854 – 1855 – 1856 1857 1858

1855 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

Sports – Rail Transport

Countries:     Australia – Canada – France – Germany – Ireland – Mexico – Netherlands – New Zealand – Norway – South Africa – Spain – UK – USA

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

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).

Contents 1 Events of 1855 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 1.4 Ongoing events 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] Events of 1855

[edit] January–June

• January 1 – Ottawa, Ontario is incorporated as a city.
• January 23
  • The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota (a crossing made today by the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge).
  • The region of Wairarapa, New Zealand is hit by the strongest earthquake ever recorded in New Zealand (Magnitude 8.1 on the Richter Scale); there are 5 deaths.
• 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 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 12 – Michigan State University (the "pioneer" land-grant college) is established.
• February 22 – Pennsylvania State University is founded as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania.
• March 3
  • The U.S. Congress appropriates $30,000 to create the U.S. Camel Corps.
  • Alexander II of Russia ascends the Russian throne, upon the death of his father Nicholas I.
• 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.
• May 15 – The Great Gold Robbery of 1855 occurs in England.
• May 17 – The Mount Sinai Hospital is dedicated (as the Jews' Hospital) in New York City; it opens to patients on June 5.
• June 28 – The Sigma Chi Fraternity is founded at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
• June 29 – The Daily Telegraph begins publication.

[edit] July–December

• July 1 – Quinault Treaty signed, Quinault and Quileute cede their land to the United States.
• July 2 – The Kansas territorial legislature convenes in Pawnee and begins passing proslavery laws.
• August 1 – First ascent of Dufourspitze (Monte Rosa), the second highest summit in the Alps.
• September 3 – The last Bartholomew Fair is held in London, England.
• September 11 – Sevastopol falls to 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 the Wakarusa War between antislavery and proslavery forces.
• December 22 – The Metropolitan Board of Works is established.

[edit] Undated

• Stamp duty is removed from newspapers in Britain, creating mass market media in the United Kingdom.
• Palm oil sales from West Africa to Britain reach 40,000 tons.
• Ramón Castilla starts to rule second time in Peru.
• Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855 ^[1]

[edit] Ongoing events

• Crimean War (1854–1856)
• Taiping Rebellion (1851–1864)

[edit] Births

1855 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1855 MDCCCLV
Ab urbe condita	2608
Armenian calendar	1304 ԹՎ ՌՅԴ
Bahá'í calendar	11 – 12
Bengali calendar	1262
Berber calendar	2805
Buddhist calendar	2399
Burmese calendar	1217
Byzantine calendar	7363 – 7364
Chinese calendar	甲寅年十一月十三日 (4491/4551-11-13) — to — 乙卯年十一月廿三日 (4492/4552-11-23)
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 2 (安政2年)
Korean calendar	4188
Thai solar calendar	2398
v • d • e

• January 1 – Miller High Life, The Champagne of Beers (d. never)
• January 5 – King Camp Gillette, American razor 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)
• February 20 – John R. Lindgren, 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 Mellon, American banker and philanthropist (d. 1937)
• April 9 – John Marden, Australian Headmaster and pioneer of women's education (d. 1924)
• 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, North Carolina (d. 1928)

[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, 11th Tsar 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)
• June 28 – Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Lord Raglan, 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)
• September 7 – William Barton Wade Dent, Congressman (b. 1806)
• November 11 – Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (b. 1813)
• November 26 – Adam Mickiewicz, Lithuanian-Polish poet and writer (b. 1798)
• December 6 – William John Swainson, English naturalist and artist (b. 1789)

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