Historical Events In 1855

Jan 05   King Camp Gillette, inventor (safety razor) on this day in history.   

Jan 05   USS Plymouth crew skirmish with Chinese troops on this day in history.   

Jan 09   Clipper Guiding Star disappears in Atlantic, 480 dies on this day in history.   

Jan 09   The clipper ship Guiding Star disappears in Atlantic, 480 dies on this day in history.   

Jan 10   In the year 1855 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 on this day in history.   

Jan 22   In the year 1855 ernst Kullak, composer   

Jan 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 on this day in history.   

Jan 25   Dorothy Wordsworth, writer, dies at 83 in the year 1855.   

Jan 26   On this day in history arthur Hervey, composer   

Jan 28   On this day in history the first locomotive runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Railway.   

Jan 28   In the year 1855 william Seward Burroughs, NY, inventor (recording adding machine)   

Jan 31   In the year 1855 western railroads blocked by snow   

Feb 01   Third plague pandemic in Worldwide killing 12 million+ in India and China alone people in the year 1855.   

Feb 01   In the year 1855 yellow fever in United States   

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   Soldiers shoot Jewish families in Coro, Venezuela in the year 1855.   

Feb 05   On this day in history british government of Palmerston forms   

Feb 05   On this day in history british govt of Palmerston forms   

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   In the year 1855 michigan State University was established.   

Feb 14   On this day in history texas is linked by telegraph to the rest of the United States, with the completion of a connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas.   

Feb 15   Gustav Hollaender, composer on this day in history.   

Feb 17   Otto Liman von Sanders, German general in Turkey (WW I) on this day in history.   

Feb 20   In the year 1855 joseph Hume, social reformer, dies   

Feb 21   In the year 1855 alice Freeman Palmer, educator (Hall of Fame)   

Feb 23   On this day in history carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician, dies   

Feb 24   On this day in history uS Court of Claims established for cases against the government   

Feb 24   US Court of Claims forms for cases against govt in the year 1855.   

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Jan 03   In the year 1855 birth of hubert Bland, English socialist (d. 1914)   

Jan 05   King Camp Gillette, inventor (safety razor) was born in the year 1855.   

Jan 10   On this day in history birth of peter J Blok, Dutch historian (History of the Dutch People)   

Jan 15   In the year 1855 birth of jacques Damala, Greek military officer and actor (d. 1889)   

Jan 20   Amedee-Ernest Chausson, composer was born on this day in history.   

Jan 21   On this day in history birth of john M Browning, US, weapons manufacturer   

Jan 22   On this day in history birth of ernst Kullak, composer   

Jan 23   John Moses Browning, American inventor (d. 1926) was born in the year 1855.   

Jan 06   Giacomo Beltrami, Italian explorer (b. 1779) died in the year 1855.   

Jan 10   Mary Russell Mitford, Engl playwright/poet (Julian), dies at 67 on this day in history.   

Jan 25   Dorothy Wordsworth, writer, dies at 83 on this day in history.   

Jan 26   In the year 1855 death of gérard de Nerval, French writer (b. 1808)   

Feb 06   Josef Munzinger, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1791) died on this day in history.   

Feb 20   In the year 1855 joseph Hume, social reformer, dies   

Feb 23   Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician, dies in the year 1855.   

Mar 02   In the year 1855 nicholas I Pavlovitch, tsar of Russia (1825-55), dies at 58