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1856
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:
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Centuries
:
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1856
was a
leap year starting on Tuesday
(see link for calendar).
Events
January 8
-
Borax
is discovered (
John Veatch
).
January 29
- Queen
Victoria
institutes the
Victoria Cross
February 18
- The American Party (
Know-Nothings
) convene in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
to nominate their first
Presidential
candidate, former President
Millard Fillmore
.
March 5
– Fire destroys Covent Garden Theatre
March 30
- The
Treaty of Paris (1856)
is signed, ending the
Crimean War
April 7
- Foundation of
Nelson College
,
Nelson, New Zealand
April 10
- Theta Chi Fraternity founded at
Norwich University
May 21
-
Lawrence, Kansas
is captured and burned by pro-
slavery
forces.
May 22
-
Congressman
Preston Brooks
of
South Carolina
beats
Senator
Charles Sumner
with a cane in the hall of the
United States Senate
for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-
slavery
violence in
Kansas
("
Bleeding Kansas
"). Sumner was unable to return to duty for three years while he recovered. Brooks became a hero across the South.
June 9
- 500
Mormons
leave
Iowa City, Iowa
and head west for
Salt Lake City, Utah
carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.
July 31
-
Christchurch, New Zealand
chartered as a city.
August 10
– A
hurricane
destroys Last Island, Louisiana - 400 dead. The whole island was broken up into several smaller islands by the storm.
November -
James Buchanan
defeats
John C. Fremont
in the
U.S. presidential election
November 17
-
American Old West
: On the
Sonoita River
in present-day southern
Arizona
, the
United States Army
establishes
Fort Buchanan
in order to help control new land acquired in the
Gadsden Purchase
.
British Country and Borough Police Act extends London
police
model to the entire country
Western Union
founded
Kate Warner , the first female
private detective
, begins to work for the
Pinkerton Detective Agency
Pre-human remains found in the
Neanderthal valley
in Germany
Gregor Mendel
starts his research on
genetics
.
National Portrait Gallery
in
London
opened.
Births
January 11
-
Christian Sinding
, composer (d.
1941
)
January 12
-
John Singer Sargent
, artist (d.
1925
)
January 20
- Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch , women's rights activist (d.
1940
)
February 2
-
Frederick William Vanderbilt
, railway magnate (d.
1938
)
February 14
-
Frank Harris
, author and editor (d.
1931
)
March 8
-
Tom Roberts
, artist (d.
1931
)
March 9
-
Eddie Foy
, singer, dancer,
vaudeville
performer (d.
1928
)
March 20
-
Frederick Winslow Taylor
, inventor, efficiency expert
April 5
-
Booker T. Washington
, African-American educator (d.
1915
)
April 12
-
William Martin Conway
, British art critic and mountaineer (d.
1937
)
May 6
-
Sigmund Freud
, Austrian psychiatrist, founder of
psychoanalysis
May 6
-
Robert Peary
, explorer (d.
1920
)
May 15
-
L. Frank Baum
, author (d.
1919
)
June 14
-
Andrey Markov
, Russian
mathematician
(d.
1922
)
July 2
-
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
, Indian political activist (d.
1920
)
July 10
-
Nikola Tesla
, inventor (d.
1943
)
July 26
-
George Bernard Shaw
, writer (d.
1950
)
August 13
-
Alfred Deakin
, second
Prime Minister of Australia
(d.
1919
)
September 18
-
Wilhelm von Gloeden
, photographer (d.
1931
)
November 22
-
Heber J. Grant
, president of
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
(d.
1945
)
November 24
-
Bat Masterson
, "Wild West" legend (d.
1921
)
December 25
-
Hans von Bartels
, German painter
December 25
-
Sir Samuel William Knaggs
, civil servant (West Indies) (d.
1924
)
Deaths
February 17
-
Heinrich Heine
, German writer (b.
1797
}
May 3
-
Adolphe Charles Adam
, French composer (b.
1803
)
July 9
-
Amedeo Avogadro
, Italian chemist (b.
1776
)
August 30
-
Gilbert Abbott a Beckett
, writer. (b.
1811
)
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