Page 2: Historical Events In 1856

Mar 01   Florimond Fonteyne, Flemish priest/politician (Volkseeuw).   

Mar 05   Covent Garden Opera House destroyed in a fire.   

Mar 05   Georgia is recorded as becoming inaugural state to regulate railroads.   

Mar 07   Argentine and Brazilian sign a navigation pact.   

Mar 07   Matilde Serao, [Tuffolina], Italian writer (Land of Cockayne).   

Mar 09   Sigma Alpha Epsilon is founded in the Johnston Mansion House on the University of Alabama   

Mar 16   E Louis YY Napoleon Bonaparte, French/English prince   

Mar 20   Frederick Winslow Taylor, father of scientific management   

Mar 25   A E Burnside patents Burnside carbine   

Mar 26   David Alfred Thomas, Glamorganshire UK, 1st Viscount Rhondda   

Mar 26   New South Wales' inaugural inaugural-class game, vs Victoria at Melbourne; New South Wales won.   

Mar 26   NSW's 1st 1st-class game, v Victoria at Melbourne NSW won   

Mar 28   Pyotr Ivanovich Turchaninov, composer, dies at 76.   

Mar 30   Russia signs Peace of Paris, ending the Crimean War.   

Apr 03   Gunpowder in church explodes killing 4000 in Rhodos.   

Apr 05   Booker Taliaferro Washington, pioneer educator (1st black on US stamp).   

Apr 10   The Theta Chi Fraternity is founded at Norwich University   

Apr 11   Arthur Shrewsbury, cricketer (dominant England bat late 19th cent).   

Apr 11   Battle of Rivas; Costa Rica beats Wm Walker's invading Nicaraguans   

Apr 12   William M Conway, English historian/explorer (Spitzbergen)   

Apr 18   Russian Republic Chancellor Earl von Nesselrode steps down.   

Apr 21   The inaugural rail train to pass over the mighty Mississippi River between Davenport, Iowa and Rock Island, IL made its journey across a newly completed bridge between the two rail centers.   

Apr 21   The inaugural railroad bridge across Mississippi completed.   

Apr 22   [Marie] Louise Hens, Flemish actress (Two Orphans)   

Apr 24   Henri POBJ Pétain, French marshal (Verdun/Vichy regime)   

Apr 29   Peace between England and Russia   

May 03   Adolfo Fumagalli, composer, dies at 27.   

May 06   Robert Edwin Peary, US, arctic explorer (North Pole-Apr 6 1909).   

May 06   Robert Peary, American Artic explorer is born.   

May 06   Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychologist is born   

May 06   William Hamilton, metaphysicist, dies.   

May 07   Argentine and Brazilian sign a navigation pact.   

May 13   Peter Henry Emerson, 1st to promote photography as an independent art.   

May 15   2nd SF Vigilance Committee organized   

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Jan 06   Giuseppe martucci: Composer   

Jan 09   Anton askerc: Slavic priest/poet (primoz trubar)   

Jan 09   Lizette woodworth reese: Us poet (branch of may, tears)   

Jan 09   Stevan mokranjac: Composer   

Jan 11   Christian august sinding: Kongsberg norway, composer   

Jan 12   John singer sargent: Us, portrait painter (wyndham sisters)   

Jan 14   J. f. archibald: Australian journalist and publisher    

Jan 18   Daniel nathan hale williams: Surgeon (1st open heart operation)   

Jan 05   Pierre j david: [david d'angers], french sculptor,   

Jan 11   Nikolai i nadezjdin: Russian archaeologist,    

Jan 12   Ľudovít Štúr: Slovak politician, author of slovak language, (b. 1815)   

Jan 16   Thaddeus william harris: American naturalist (b. 1795)   

Jan 17   Thomas attwood walmisley: Composer,    

Jan 24   Rabbi yechezkel of kuzmir: Polish hasidic leader (b. 1775)   

Feb 08   Agostino bassi: Italian entomologist (b. 1773)   

Feb 17   Heinrich heine: German poet,