Historical Events In 1855
Friday, 31 March 2023
Jan 05 On this day in history king Camp Gillette, inventor (safety razor)
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 On this day in history mary Russell Mitford, Engl playwright/poet (Julian), dies at 67
Jan 10 In the year 1855 peter J Blok, Dutch historian (History of the Dutch People)
Jan 20 Amedee-Ernest Chausson, composer in the year 1855.
Jan 21 On this day in history john M Browning, US, weapons manufacturer
Jan 22 Ernst Kullak, composer on this day in history.
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 in the year 1855.
Jan 25 In the year 1855 dorothy Wordsworth, writer, dies at 83
Jan 26 On this day in history arthur Hervey, composer
Jan 28 In the year 1855 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 In the year 1855 western railroads blocked by snow
Feb 01 On this day in history 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 on this day in history.
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 on this day in history.
Feb 05 In the year 1855 british government of Palmerston forms
Feb 05 In the year 1855 british govt of Palmerston forms
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 on this day in history.
Feb 11 In the year 1855 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 on this day in history.
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 in the year 1855.
Feb 17 In the year 1855 otto Liman von Sanders, German general in Turkey (WW I)
Feb 20 On this day in history joseph Hume, social reformer, dies
Feb 21 In the year 1855 alice Freeman Palmer, educator (Hall of Fame)
Feb 23 Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician, dies on this day in history.
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 on this day in history.
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