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 in the year 1855.   

Jan 09   Clipper Guiding Star disappears in Atlantic, 480 dies in the year 1855.   

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   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   In the year 1855 john M Browning, US, weapons manufacturer   

Jan 22   On this day in history 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 in the year 1855.   

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

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   On this day in history william Seward Burroughs, NY, inventor (recording adding machine)   

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   Yellow fever in United States in the year 1855.   

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   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 in the year 1855.   

Feb 08   In the year 1855 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   Kassa Hailu is crowned Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia, by Abuna Salama III in a ceremony at the church of Derasge Maryam in the year 1855.   

Feb 12   Michigan State University was established on this day in history.   

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   On this day in history gustav Hollaender, composer   

Feb 17   In the year 1855 otto Liman von Sanders, German general in Turkey (WW I)   

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

Feb 21   Alice Freeman Palmer, educator (Hall of Fame) in the year 1855.   

Feb 23   In the year 1855 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 on this day in history.   

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

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

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

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

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   On this day in history mary Russell Mitford, Engl playwright/poet (Julian), dies at 67   

Jan 25   In the year 1855 dorothy Wordsworth, writer, dies at 83   

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 in the year 1855.   

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

Feb 23   In the year 1855 carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician, dies   

Mar 02   Nicholas I Pavlovitch, tsar of Russia (1825-55), dies at 58 in the year 1855.