Historical Events In 1856

Jul 16   In the year 1856 statue of Laurens Jansz Coster unveiled in Haarlem  

Jul 17   In the year 1856 sunday school excursion train collides killing 46 children (Phila)  

Jul 21   On this day in history harry A P Eyres, British diplomat (Constantinople, Albania)  

Jul 23   In the year 1856 arthur H Bird, composer  

Jul 26   George Bernard Shaw, Dublin Ire, dramatist (Pygmalion-Nobel 1925) on this day in history.  

Jul 26   On this day in history the birth of George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright  

Jul 29   In the year 1856 robert A Schumann, German pianist/composer (Humoresque), dies at 46  

Jul 30   In the year 1856 richard B Haldane, British viscount/lord-chancellor (Life of A Smith)  

Jul 31   In the year 1856 christchurch, New Zealand is chartered as a city.  

Aug 04   Johann Gottlieb Schneider, composer, dies at 59 in the year 1856.  

Aug 05   Rubert Lucas Pearsall, composer, dies at 61 in the year 1856.  

Aug 10   Hurricane washes away 2-300 revelers at Last Island, Louisiana in the year 1856.  

Aug 10   In the year 1856 hurricane washes away 300 in Louisiana  

Aug 10   Paul Geisler, composer in the year 1856.  

Aug 12   On this day in history anthony Fass patents accordion  

Aug 14   William Buckland, dean (Westminister)/geologist, dies in the year 1856.  

Aug 15   In the year 1856 j Keir Hardie, 1st Labour representative in British Parliament  

Aug 17   Violet Paget, [Vernon Lee], British author (Satan the master) in the year 1856.  

Aug 18   In the year 1856 charles Hutchison Gabriel, composer  

Aug 20   Innokenti F Annenski, Russian poet/interpreter (Laodania) [NS Sept 1] in the year 1856.  

Aug 20   Philipp Jakob Riotte, composer, dies at 80 in the year 1856.  

Aug 20   Wilberforce University forms in Ohio on this day in history.  

Aug 21   In the year 1856 america's first consul to Japan, Townsend Harris, arrives in Shimoda. (Traditional Japanese date: July 21, 1856)  

Aug 21   On this day in history peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, composer, dies at 64  

Aug 24   Felix Mottl, composer on this day in history.  

Aug 27   Iwan Franko, writer in the year 1856.  

Aug 31   Nikoghayos Fadeyi Tigranyan, composer on this day in history.  

Sep 01   In the year 1856 innokenti F Annenski, Russian poet/interpreter (Laodania)  

Sep 02   On this day in history tianjing's struggle Incident in Nanjing, China.  

Sep 02   Yang Hsiu-ch'ing, commander in chief of Taiping Rebellion in the year 1856.  

Sep 03   On this day in history louis Henri Sullivan, Boston Mass, father of modern US architecture  

Sep 05   Jacobus C J Hermans, actor (7th Command) on this day in history.  

Sep 12   On this day in history johann Heinrich Beck, composer  

Sep 14   Battle of San Jacinto, Nicaragua defeats invaders in the year 1856.  

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Jan 06   In the year 1856 birth of giuseppe Martucci, composer  

Jan 09   On this day in history birth of anton Askerc, Slavic priest/poet (Primoz Trubar)  

Jan 09   Lizette Woodworth Reese, US poet (Branch of May, Tears) was born in the year 1856.  

Jan 09   Stevan Mokranjac, composer was born in the year 1856.  

Jan 11   In the year 1856 birth of christian August Sinding, Kongsberg Norway, composer  

Jan 12   In the year 1856 birth of john Singer Sargent, US, portrait painter (Wyndham Sisters)  

Jan 14   J. F. Archibald, Australian journalist and publisher (d. 1919) was born in the year 1856.  

Jan 18   On this day in history birth of daniel Nathan Hale Williams, surgeon (1st open heart operation)  

Jan 05   In the year 1856 pierre J David, [David d'Angers], French sculptor, dies at 67  

Jan 11   Nikolai I Nadezjdin, Russian archaeologist, dies [NS=Jan 23] in the year 1856.  

Jan 12   In the year 1856 death of Ľudovít Štúr, Slovak politician, author of Slovak language, (b. 1815)  

Jan 16   Thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist (b. 1795) died in the year 1856.  

Jan 17   Thomas Attwood Walmisley, composer, dies at 41 on this day in history.  

Jan 24   In the year 1856 death of rabbi Yechezkel of Kuzmir, Polish Hasidic leader (b. 1775)  

Feb 08   Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist (b. 1773) died in the year 1856.  

Feb 17   Heinrich Heine, German poet, dies at 58 in Paris in the year 1856.