Historical Events In 1855
Wednesday, 24 April 2024
Jan 05 In the year 1855 king Camp Gillette, inventor (safety razor)
Jan 05 In the year 1855 uSS Plymouth crew skirmish with Chinese troops
Jan 09 Clipper Guiding Star disappears in Atlantic, 480 dies on this day in history.
Jan 09 On this day in history the clipper ship Guiding Star disappears in Atlantic, 480 dies
Jan 10 On this day in history mary Russell Mitford, Engl playwright/poet (Julian), dies at 67
Jan 10 On this day in history peter J Blok, Dutch historian (History of the Dutch People)
Jan 20 In the year 1855 amedee-Ernest Chausson, composer
Jan 21 John M Browning, US, weapons manufacturer in the year 1855.
Jan 22 Ernst Kullak, composer in the year 1855.
Jan 23 In the year 1855 the first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, a crossing made today by the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge.
Jan 25 On this day in history dorothy Wordsworth, writer, dies at 83
Jan 26 On this day in history arthur Hervey, composer
Jan 28 The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Railway on this day in history.
Jan 28 William Seward Burroughs, NY, inventor (recording adding machine) on this day in history.
Jan 31 Western railroads blocked by snow on this day in history.
Feb 01 On this day in history third plague pandemic in Worldwide killing 12 million+ in India and China alone people
Feb 01 Yellow fever in United States in the year 1855.
Feb 03 On this day in history wisconsin Supreme Court declares US Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional
Feb 03 On this day in history wisconsin Supreme Ct declares US Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional
Feb 04 On this day in history soldiers shoot Jewish families in Coro, Venezuela
Feb 05 British government of Palmerston forms in the year 1855.
Feb 05 British govt of Palmerston forms on this day in history.
Feb 08 On this day in history the Devil's Footprints mysteriously appear in southern Devon.
Feb 10 US citizenship laws amended all children of US parents born abroad granted US citizenship in the year 1855.
Feb 11 On this day in history kassa Hailu is crowned Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia, by Abuna Salama III in a ceremony at the church of Derasge Maryam.
Feb 12 Michigan State University was established in the year 1855.
Feb 14 Texas is linked by telegraph to the rest of the United States, with the completion of a connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas on this day in history.
Feb 15 Gustav Hollaender, composer in the year 1855.
Feb 17 Otto Liman von Sanders, German general in Turkey (WW I) on this day in history.
Feb 20 Joseph Hume, social reformer, dies in the year 1855.
Feb 21 On this day in history alice Freeman Palmer, educator (Hall of Fame)
Feb 23 In the year 1855 carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician, dies
Feb 24 US Court of Claims established for cases against the government on this day in history.
Feb 24 In the year 1855 uS Court of Claims forms for cases against govt
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