Historical Events In 1856
Saturday, 07 September 2024
Feb 29 Hostilities in Russo-Turkish War cease on this day in history.
Mar 01 Florimond Fonteyne, Flemish priest/politician (Volkseeuw) in the year 1856.
Mar 05 Covent Garden Opera House destroyed in a fire on this day in history.
Mar 05 In the year 1856 georgia becomes first state to regulate railroads
Mar 07 In the year 1856 argentine & Brazilian sign a navigation pact
Mar 07 Matilde Serao, [Tuffolina], Italian writer (Land of Cockayne) in the year 1856.
Mar 09 In the year 1856 sigma Alpha Epsilon is founded in the Johnston Mansion House on the University of Alabama
Mar 16 On this day in history e Louis YY Napoleon Bonaparte, French/English prince
Mar 20 In the year 1856 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 in the year 1856.
Mar 26 In the year 1856 nSW's 1st 1st-class game, v Victoria at Melbourne NSW won
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 In the year 1856 gunpowder in church explodes killing 4,000 in Rhodos
Apr 05 Booker Taliaferro Washington, pioneer educator (1st black on US stamp) on this day in history.
Apr 10 In the year 1856 the Theta Chi Fraternity is founded at Norwich University.
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 on this day in history.
Apr 12 In the year 1856 william M Conway, English historian/explorer (Spitzbergen)
Apr 18 Russian Republic Chancellor Earl von Nesselrode resigns on this day in history.
Apr 21 In the year 1856 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 On this day in history the first railroad bridge across Mississippi completed
Apr 22 [Marie] Louise Hens, Flemish actress (Two Orphans) in the year 1856.
Apr 24 Henri POBJ Pétain, French marshal (Verdun/Vichy regime) in the year 1856.
Apr 29 In the year 1856 peace between England & Russia
May 03 In the year 1856 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 On this day in history the birth of Robert Peary, American Artic explorer
May 06 On this day in history the birth of Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychologist
May 06 William Hamilton, metaphysicist, dies on this day in history.
May 07 In the year 1856 argentine & Brazilian sign a navigation pact
May 13 On this day in history peter Henry Emerson, 1st to promote photography as an independent art
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