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   In the year 1855 clipper Guiding Star disappears in Atlantic, 480 dies   

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

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   Amedee-Ernest Chausson, composer in the year 1855.   

Jan 21   John M Browning, US, weapons manufacturer in the year 1855.   

Jan 22   On this day in history ernst Kullak, composer   

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

Jan 26   Arthur Hervey, composer in the year 1855.   

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   In the year 1855 third plague pandemic in Worldwide killing 12 million+ in India and China alone people   

Feb 01   On this day in history yellow fever in United States   

Feb 03   Wisconsin Supreme Court declares US Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional in the year 1855.   

Feb 03   In the year 1855 wisconsin Supreme Ct declares US Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional   

Feb 04   Soldiers shoot Jewish families in Coro, Venezuela on this day in history.   

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   The Devil's Footprints mysteriously appear in southern Devon in the year 1855.   

Feb 10   US citizenship laws amended all children of US parents born abroad granted US citizenship in the year 1855.   

Feb 11   Kassa Hailu is crowned Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia, by Abuna Salama III in a ceremony at the church of Derasge Maryam on this day in history.   

Feb 12   On this day in history michigan State University was established.   

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 in the year 1855.   

Feb 15   In the year 1855 gustav Hollaender, composer   

Feb 17   On this day in history otto Liman von Sanders, German general in Turkey (WW I)   

Feb 20   On this day in history joseph Hume, social reformer, dies   

Feb 21   Alice Freeman Palmer, educator (Hall of Fame) on this day in history.   

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

Feb 24   US Court of Claims established for cases against the government in the year 1855.   

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

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Jan 03   Hubert Bland, English socialist (d. 1914) was born in the year 1855.   

Jan 05   On this day in history birth of king Camp Gillette, inventor (safety razor)   

Jan 10   In the year 1855 birth of peter J Blok, Dutch historian (History of the Dutch People)   

Jan 15   Jacques Damala, Greek military officer and actor (d. 1889) was born in the year 1855.   

Jan 20   On this day in history birth of amedee-Ernest Chausson, composer   

Jan 21   In the year 1855 birth of john M Browning, US, weapons manufacturer   

Jan 22   Ernst Kullak, composer was born on this day in history.   

Jan 23   In the year 1855 birth of john Moses Browning, American inventor (d. 1926)   

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 in the year 1855.   

Jan 26   Gérard de Nerval, French writer (b. 1808) died in the year 1855.   

Feb 06   On this day in history death of josef Munzinger, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1791)   

Feb 20   Joseph Hume, social reformer, dies in the year 1855.   

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

Mar 02   On this day in history nicholas I Pavlovitch, tsar of Russia (1825-55), dies at 58