Historical Events In 1855

May 02   In the year 1855 theodore Moses Tobani, composer  

May 03   On this day in history antwerp-Rotterdam railway opens  

May 04   Camille Pleyel, Austria piano builder/composer, dies at 66 on this day in history.  

May 05   In the year 1855 nYC regains Castle Clinton, to be used for immigration  

May 09   Julius Rontgen, composer on this day in history.  

May 10   Anatoli Liadov, St Petersburg, Russia, composer (Enchanted Lake) [NS] on this day in history.  

May 11   Anatol Konstantinovich Lyadov, Russian composer (Bewitched Lake) in the year 1855.  

May 15   On this day in history eduard earl of Keyserling, German writer (Dritte Stiege)  

May 15   In the year 1855 jan Mazereeuw, Frisian farmer/sect leader, dies at 75  

May 21   Emile A G Verhaeren, Belgian poet/writer (Les Flammes Hautes) in the year 1855.  

May 24   Arthur Wing Pinero, British playwright on this day in history.  

May 27   On this day in history nikolaj A Bestoezjev, Russ writer/painter (Account of Holland), dies  

Jun 01   In the year 1855 uS adventurer Wm Walker conquers Nicaragua, reestablishes slavery  

Jun 02   The Portland Rum Riot occurs in Portland, Maine on this day in history.  

Jun 05   On this day in history anti-foreign anti-Roman Catholic Know-Nothing Party's 1st convention  

Jun 05   On this day in history anti-foreign anti-Roman Catholic Know-Nothing Party's first convention  

Jun 13   Opera "Les Vêpres Sicilenne" is produced (Paris) in the year 1855.  

Jun 14   On this day in history robert Marion La Follette, Wisconsin, pres candidate (Progressive)  

Jun 17   In the year 1855 fritz Steinbach, composer  

Jun 17   Heavy French/British bombing of Sebastopol, 2000+ killed in the year 1855.  

Jun 20   Commissioners appointed to lay out SF streets west of Larkin in the year 1855.  

Jun 22   Sam Morris, Hobart, cricketer (Barbados parents only black Aus player) in the year 1855.  

Jun 23   Maude Valerie White, composer on this day in history.  

Jun 28   Giovanni Agostino Perotti, composer, dies at 86 in the year 1855.  

Jun 28   The Sigma Chi Fraternity was founded at Miami University in the year 1855.  

Jul 03   Piotr Maszynski, composer in the year 1855.  

Jul 04   On this day in history in Brooklyn, New York, the first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, titled Leaves of Grass, is published.  

Jul 09   On this day in history johann P Zilcher, German composer  

Jul 09   On this day in history lord Raglan Commander of the British forces during the Crimean War  

Jul 14   Richard Samuel Hughes, composer in the year 1855.  

Jul 16   Charles Francis Abdy Williams, composer in the year 1855.  

Jul 20   1st train from Rotterdam to Utrecht in Netherlands on this day in history.  

Jul 25   Edward Solomon, composer in the year 1855.  

Jul 30   On this day in history james Edward Kelly, US, sculptor "Sculptor of American History"  

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Jan 03   In the year 1855 birth of hubert Bland, English socialist (d. 1914)  

Jan 05   King Camp Gillette, inventor (safety razor) was born in the year 1855.  

Jan 10   On this day in history birth of peter J Blok, Dutch historian (History of the Dutch People)  

Jan 15   On this day in history 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   In the year 1855 birth of ernst Kullak, composer  

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

Jan 06   In the year 1855 death of giacomo Beltrami, Italian explorer (b. 1779)  

Jan 10   In the year 1855 mary Russell Mitford, Engl playwright/poet (Julian), dies at 67  

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   Josef Munzinger, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1791) died in the year 1855.  

Feb 20   Joseph Hume, social reformer, dies on this day in history.  

Feb 23   Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician, dies in the year 1855.  

Mar 02   Nicholas I Pavlovitch, tsar of Russia (1825-55), dies at 58 on this day in history.