Historical Events In 1855

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

Jan 05   In the year 1855 uSS Plymouth crew skirmish with Chinese troops  

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

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) on this day in history.  

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

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

Jan 22   Ernst Kullak, composer in the year 1855.  

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 on this day in history.  

Jan 26   Arthur Hervey, composer in the year 1855.  

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   Western railroads blocked by snow on this day in history.  

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

Feb 01   In the year 1855 yellow fever in United States  

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

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

Feb 04   In the year 1855 soldiers shoot Jewish families in Coro, Venezuela  

Feb 05   British government of Palmerston forms on this day in history.  

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   In the year 1855 uS citizenship laws amended all children of US parents born abroad granted US citizenship  

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   On this day in history gustav Hollaender, composer  

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

Feb 24   In the year 1855 uS Court of Claims established for cases against the government  

Feb 24   On this day in history uS Court of Claims forms for cases against govt  

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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   Peter J Blok, Dutch historian (History of the Dutch People) was born in the year 1855.  

Jan 15   Jacques Damala, Greek military officer and actor (d. 1889) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 20   In the year 1855 birth of amedee-Ernest Chausson, composer  

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

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

Jan 23   John Moses Browning, American inventor (d. 1926) was born on this day in history.  

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   In the year 1855 death of josef Munzinger, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1791)  

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

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

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