Page 2: 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   In the year 1856 covent Garden Opera House destroyed in a fire   

Mar 05   In the year 1856 georgia becomes first state to regulate railroads   

Mar 07   Argentine & Brazilian sign a navigation pact in the year 1856.   

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   In the year 1856 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 on this day in history.   

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

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

Mar 28   On this day in history pyotr Ivanovich Turchaninov, composer, dies at 76   

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 on this day in history.   

Apr 05   Booker Taliaferro Washington, pioneer educator (1st black on US stamp) in the year 1856.   

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   In the year 1856 battle of Rivas; Costa Rica beats Wm Walker's invading Nicaraguans   

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

Apr 18   Russian Republic Chancellor Earl von Nesselrode resigns in the year 1856.   

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   On this day in history [Marie] Louise Hens, Flemish actress (Two Orphans)   

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

Apr 29   In the year 1856 peace between England & Russia   

May 03   In the year 1856 adolfo Fumagalli, composer, dies at 27   

May 06   In the year 1856 robert Edwin Peary, US, arctic explorer (North Pole-Apr 6 1909)   

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

May 06   On this day in history the birth of Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychologist   

May 06   On this day in history william Hamilton, metaphysicist, dies   

May 07   Argentine & Brazilian sign a navigation pact in the year 1856.   

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

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Jan 06   Giuseppe Martucci, composer was born on this day in history.   

Jan 09   In the year 1856 birth of anton Askerc, Slavic priest/poet (Primoz Trubar)   

Jan 09   On this day in history 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   On this day in history birth of christian August Sinding, Kongsberg Norway, composer   

Jan 12   John Singer Sargent, US, portrait painter (Wyndham Sisters) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 14   In the year 1856 birth of j. F. Archibald, Australian journalist and publisher (d. 1919)   

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   In the year 1856 death of thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist (b. 1795)   

Jan 17   Thomas Attwood Walmisley, composer, dies at 41 in the year 1856.   

Jan 24   Rabbi Yechezkel of Kuzmir, Polish Hasidic leader (b. 1775) died on this day in history.   

Feb 08   On this day in history death of agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist (b. 1773)   

Feb 17   In the year 1856 heinrich Heine, German poet, dies at 58 in Paris