Historical Events In 1855
Sunday, 24 September 2023
Jan 05 King Camp Gillette, inventor (safety razor) in the year 1855.
Jan 05 On this day in history uSS Plymouth crew skirmish with Chinese troops
Jan 09 In the year 1855 clipper Guiding Star disappears in Atlantic, 480 dies
Jan 09 On this day in history the clipper ship Guiding Star disappears in Atlantic, 480 dies
Jan 10 Mary Russell Mitford, Engl playwright/poet (Julian), dies at 67 in the year 1855.
Jan 10 Peter J Blok, Dutch historian (History of the Dutch People) in the year 1855.
Jan 20 On this day in history amedee-Ernest Chausson, composer
Jan 21 On this day in history john M Browning, US, weapons manufacturer
Jan 22 Ernst Kullak, composer in the year 1855.
Jan 23 On this day in history 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 In the year 1855 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 William Seward Burroughs, NY, inventor (recording adding machine) on this day in history.
Jan 31 On this day in history 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 On this day in history yellow fever in United States
Feb 03 On this day in history wisconsin Supreme Court declares US Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional
Feb 03 Wisconsin Supreme Ct declares US Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional in the year 1855.
Feb 04 On this day in history soldiers shoot Jewish families in Coro, Venezuela
Feb 05 On this day in history british government of Palmerston forms
Feb 05 British govt of Palmerston forms on this day in history.
Feb 08 The Devil's Footprints mysteriously appear in southern Devon on this day in history.
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 Michigan State University was established in the year 1855.
Feb 14 In the year 1855 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 In the year 1855 gustav Hollaender, composer
Feb 17 Otto Liman von Sanders, German general in Turkey (WW I) on this day in history.
Feb 20 On this day in history joseph Hume, social reformer, dies
Feb 21 Alice Freeman Palmer, educator (Hall of Fame) in the year 1855.
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 on this day in history.
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