Historical Events In 1856

Feb 29   Hostilities in Russo-Turkish War cease in the year 1856.  

Mar 01   Florimond Fonteyne, Flemish priest/politician (Volkseeuw) on this day in history.  

Mar 05   Covent Garden Opera House destroyed in a fire on this day in history.  

Mar 05   On this day in history georgia becomes first state to regulate railroads  

Mar 07   On this day in history argentine & Brazilian sign a navigation pact  

Mar 07   In the year 1856 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 in the year 1856.  

Mar 16   On this day in history e Louis YY Napoleon Bonaparte, French/English prince  

Mar 20   On this day in history frederick Winslow Taylor, father of scientific management  

Mar 25   On this day in history a E Burnside patents Burnside carbine  

Mar 26   David Alfred Thomas, Glamorganshire UK, 1st Viscount Rhondda in the year 1856.  

Mar 26   New South Wales' first first-class game, vs Victoria at Melbourne; New South Wales won on this day in history.  

Mar 26   NSW's 1st 1st-class game, v Victoria at Melbourne NSW won in the year 1856.  

Mar 28   Pyotr Ivanovich Turchaninov, composer, dies at 76 on this day in history.  

Mar 30   In the year 1856 russia signs Peace of Paris, ending the Crimean War  

Apr 03   Gunpowder in church explodes killing 4,000 in Rhodos in the year 1856.  

Apr 05   In the year 1856 booker Taliaferro Washington, pioneer educator (1st black on US stamp)  

Apr 10   The Theta Chi Fraternity is founded at Norwich University in the year 1856.  

Apr 11   Arthur Shrewsbury, cricketer (dominant England bat late 19th cent) in the year 1856.  

Apr 11   Battle of Rivas; Costa Rica beats Wm Walker's invading Nicaraguans in the year 1856.  

Apr 12   William M Conway, English historian/explorer (Spitzbergen) in the year 1856.  

Apr 18   On this day in history russian Republic Chancellor Earl von Nesselrode resigns  

Apr 21   On this day in history the first 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 first railroad bridge across Mississippi completed on this day in history.  

Apr 22   [Marie] Louise Hens, Flemish actress (Two Orphans) in the year 1856.  

Apr 24   Henri POBJ Pétain, French marshal (Verdun/Vichy regime) on this day in history.  

Apr 29   Peace between England & Russia in the year 1856.  

May 03   On this day in history adolfo Fumagalli, composer, dies at 27  

May 06   Robert Edwin Peary, US, arctic explorer (North Pole-Apr 6 1909) on this day in history.  

May 06   The birth of Robert Peary, American Artic explorer in the year 1856.  

May 06   The birth of Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychologist on this day in history.  

May 06   William Hamilton, metaphysicist, dies in the year 1856.  

May 07   In the year 1856 argentine & Brazilian sign a navigation pact  

May 13   Peter Henry Emerson, 1st to promote photography as an independent art in the year 1856.  

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Jan 06   On this day in history birth of giuseppe Martucci, composer  

Jan 09   Anton Askerc, Slavic priest/poet (Primoz Trubar) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 09   In the year 1856 birth of lizette Woodworth Reese, US poet (Branch of May, Tears)  

Jan 09   On this day in history birth of stevan Mokranjac, composer  

Jan 11   Christian August Sinding, Kongsberg Norway, composer was born in the year 1856.  

Jan 12   In the year 1856 birth of john Singer Sargent, US, portrait painter (Wyndham Sisters)  

Jan 14   J. F. Archibald, Australian journalist and publisher (d. 1919) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 18   Daniel Nathan Hale Williams, surgeon (1st open heart operation) was born in the year 1856.  

Jan 05   Pierre J David, [David d'Angers], French sculptor, dies at 67 on this day in history.  

Jan 11   Nikolai I Nadezjdin, Russian archaeologist, dies [NS=Jan 23] on this day in history.  

Jan 12   In the year 1856 death of Ľudovít Å túr, Slovak politician, author of Slovak language, (b. 1815)  

Jan 16   Thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist (b. 1795) died in the year 1856.  

Jan 17   Thomas Attwood Walmisley, composer, dies at 41 on this day in history.  

Jan 24   In the year 1856 death of rabbi Yechezkel of Kuzmir, Polish Hasidic leader (b. 1775)  

Feb 08   In the year 1856 death of agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist (b. 1773)  

Feb 17   Heinrich Heine, German poet, dies at 58 in Paris on this day in history.