Historical Events In 1855
Monday, 18 March 2024
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 On this day in history 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 on this day in history.
Jan 10 Peter J Blok, Dutch historian (History of the Dutch People) on this day in history.
Jan 20 On this day in history amedee-Ernest Chausson, composer
Jan 21 In the year 1855 john M Browning, US, weapons manufacturer
Jan 22 Ernst Kullak, composer in the year 1855.
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 on this day in history.
Jan 25 Dorothy Wordsworth, writer, dies at 83 in the year 1855.
Jan 26 Arthur Hervey, composer on this day in history.
Jan 28 The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Railway on this day in history.
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 Wisconsin Supreme Court declares US Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional on this day in history.
Feb 03 Wisconsin Supreme Ct declares US Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional on this day in history.
Feb 04 Soldiers shoot Jewish families in Coro, Venezuela on this day in history.
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 On this day in history the Devil's Footprints mysteriously appear in southern Devon.
Feb 10 On this day in history uS citizenship laws amended all children of US parents born abroad granted US citizenship
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 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 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 On this day in history alice Freeman Palmer, educator (Hall of Fame)
Feb 23 On this day in history carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician, dies
Feb 24 US Court of Claims established for cases against the government on this day in history.
Feb 24 In the year 1855 uS Court of Claims forms for cases against govt
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