
{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1852 1853 1854 - 1855 - 1856 1857 1858 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1820s 1830s 1840s - 1850s - 1860s 1870s 1880s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century
|} 1855 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ==Events== * January 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. *January 23 - The region of Wairarapa, New Zealand was hit by the strongest earthquake ever recorded in New Zealand, which reached Magnitude 8.1 on the Richter Scale. There were five deaths. * February 11 - Kassa Hailu is crowned Tewodros II of Ethiopia, Emperor of Ethiopia, by Abuna Salama III in a ceremony at the church of Derasge Maryam. * George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen is forced to resign as Prime Minister of Britain because of bad management of the campaigns in the Crimean War and the general unpopularity of that war. * Stamp duty was removed from newspapers in Britain creating mass market media in the UK. * The Panama Railway becomes the first railroad to connect the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean by rail as the railroad's route across Panama is completed. ==Births== * January 5 - King Camp Gillette, American inventor (d. 1932) * January 20 - Ernest Chausson, French composer (d. 1899) * January 21 - John Moses Browning, American firearms inventor (d. 1926) * January 28 - William Seward Burroughs, American bank clerk and inventor (d. 1898) * March 13 - Percival Lowell, American astronomer (d. 1916) * March 24 - Andrew Mellon, American banker and philanthropist (d. 1937) * April 21 - Hardy Richardson, 19th century baseball player (d. 1931) * April 27 - Caroline Rémy, French feminist (d. 1929) * May 1 - Marie Corelli, English novelist (d. 1924) * November 5 - Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (d. 1913) ==Deaths== *January 6 - Giacomo Beltrami, Italian explorer (b. 1779) *January 26 - Gérard de Nerval, French writer (b. 1808) *February 6 - Josef Munzinger, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1791) *February 23 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (b. 1777) *March 29 - Henri Druey, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1799) *March 31 - Charlotte Brontë, English author (b. 1816) *May 5 - Robert Inglis, English politician (b. 1786) *May 23 - Charles Robert Malden English explorer (b. 1797) *June 28 - Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Lord Raglan, commander of British forces in the Crimean War (b. 1788) *August 7 - Mariano Arista, President of Mexico (b. 1802) *November 11 - Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (b. 1813) * November 26 - Adam Mickiewicz, Polish writer (b. 1798) 1855 la:1855 os:1855
I have made some year layout proposals which would affect this page: the year in topic paragraph would be replaced with a see also box. If no-one flags where I have put the discussion on my talk page that they object in a month I will start making everything consistent. It may take some time... --User:BozMo 19:11, 6 May 2004 (UTC)user talk:BozMo
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{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1852 1853 1854 - 1855 - 1856 1857 1858 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1820s 1830s 1840s - 1850s - 1860s 1870s 1880s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century
|} 1855 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ==Events== * January 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. *January 23 - The region of Wairarapa, New Zealand was hit by the strongest earthquake ever recorded in New Zealand, which reached Magnitude 8.1 on the Richter Scale. There were five deaths. * February 11 - Kassa Hailu is crowned Tewodros II of Ethiopia, Emperor of Ethiopia, by Abuna Salama III in a ceremony at the church of Derasge Maryam. * George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen is forced to resign as Prime Minister of Britain because of bad management of the campaigns in the Crimean War and the general unpopularity of that war. * Stamp duty was removed from newspapers in Britain creating mass market media in the UK. * The Panama Railway becomes the first railroad to connect the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean by rail as the railroad's route across Panama is completed. ==Births== * January 5 - King Camp Gillette, American inventor (d. 1932) * January 20 - Ernest Chausson, French composer (d. 1899) * January 21 - John Moses Browning, American firearms inventor (d. 1926) * January 28 - William Seward Burroughs, American bank clerk and inventor (d. 1898) * March 13 - Percival Lowell, American astronomer (d. 1916) * March 24 - Andrew Mellon, American banker and philanthropist (d. 1937) * April 21 - Hardy Richardson, 19th century baseball player (d. 1931) * April 27 - Caroline Rémy, French feminist (d. 1929) * May 1 - Marie Corelli, English novelist (d. 1924) * November 5 - Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (d. 1913) ==Deaths== *January 6 - Giacomo Beltrami, Italian explorer (b. 1779) *January 26 - Gérard de Nerval, French writer (b. 1808) *February 6 - Josef Munzinger, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1791) *February 23 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (b. 1777) *March 29 - Henri Druey, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1799) *March 31 - Charlotte Brontë, English author (b. 1816) *May 5 - Robert Inglis, English politician (b. 1786) *May 23 - Charles Robert Malden English explorer (b. 1797) *June 28 - Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Lord Raglan, commander of British forces in the Crimean War (b. 1788) *August 7 - Mariano Arista, President of Mexico (b. 1802) *November 11 - Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (b. 1813) * November 26 - Adam Mickiewicz, Polish writer (b. 1798) 1855 la:1855 os:1855
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I have made some year layout proposals which would affect this page: the year in topic paragraph would be replaced with a see also box. If no-one flags where I have put the discussion on my talk page that they object in a month I will start making everything consistent. It may take some time... --User:BozMo 19:11, 6 May 2004 (UTC)user talk:BozMo
1855
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