1855
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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: |
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Australia - Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. - UK |
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Colonial Governors - State leaders |
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Births - Deaths |
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Establishments - Disestablishments |
Works category |
Works |
Gregorian calendar | 1855 MDCCCLV |
Ab urbe condita | 2608 |
Armenian calendar | 1304 ԹՎ ՌՅԴ |
Chinese calendar | 4491/4551-11-13 (甲寅年十一月十三日) — to —
4492/4552-11-23(乙卯年十一月廿三日) |
Ethiopian calendar | 1847 – 1848 |
Hebrew calendar | 5615 – 5616 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1910 – 1911 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1777 – 1778 |
- Kali Yuga | 4956 – 4957 |
Iranian calendar | 1233 – 1234 |
Islamic calendar | 1272 – 1273 |
Japanese calendar | Ansei 2 (安政2年) |
- Imperial Year | Kōki 2515 (皇紀2515年) |
- Jōmon Era | 11855 |
Thai solar calendar | 2398 |
1855 (MDCCCLV) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).
Contents |
[edit] Events
[edit] January
- 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.
- 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 27 - The Panama Railway becomes the first railroad to connect the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean.
- January 29 - Taiping Rebellion: Shi Dakai wins a spectacular victory over Zeng Guofan's Xiang Army.
- January 29 - Lord Aberdeen resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom over the management of the Crimean War.
[edit] February
- February 5 - Lord Palmerston, (Henry Temple), becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- February 11 - Kassa Hailu is crowned Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia, by Abuna Salama III in a ceremony at the church of Derasge Maryam.
- February 17 - Taiping Rebellion: Triad uprising in Shanghai suppressed.
- February 22 - Pennsylvania State University is founded as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania.
[edit] March
- March 3 - US Congress appropriates $30,000 to create US Camel Corps
- March 16 - Bates College in Lewiston, Maine was founded.
- 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.
[edit] May
- May 15 - The Great Gold Robbery of 1855 in England.
[edit] June
- June 28 - Sigma Chi Fraternity was founded.
- June 29 - The Daily Telegraph begins publication.
[edit] July
[edit] September
- September 3 - Last Bartholomew Fair in London, England.
- September 11 - Sevastapol falls to the British troops.
[edit] November
- November 21 - Large-scale Bleeding Kansas violence begins with events leading to "Wakarusa War" between antislavery and proslavery forces.
[edit] December
- December 22 - Metropolitan Board of Works established.
[edit] Unknown dates
- Stamp duty was removed from newspapers in Britain creating mass market media in the UK.
[edit] Births
- 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)
- 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)
[edit] Deaths
- January 6 - Giacomo Beltrami, Italian explorer (b. 1779)
- 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, 1st Lord Raglan, commander of British forces in the Crimean War (b. 1788)
- 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)
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