Historical Events In 1856

Feb 29   On this day in history hostilities in Russo-Turkish War cease   

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   Sigma Alpha Epsilon is founded in the Johnston Mansion House on the University of Alabama on this day in history.   

Mar 16   E Louis YY Napoleon Bonaparte, French/English prince in the year 1856.   

Mar 20   In the year 1856 frederick Winslow Taylor, father of scientific management   

Mar 25   A E Burnside patents Burnside carbine in the year 1856.   

Mar 26   David Alfred Thomas, Glamorganshire UK, 1st Viscount Rhondda on this day in history.   

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

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   On this day in history gunpowder in church explodes killing 4,000 in Rhodos   

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

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 in the year 1856.   

Apr 12   On this day in history william M Conway, English historian/explorer (Spitzbergen)   

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

Apr 24   In the year 1856 henri POBJ Pétain, French marshal (Verdun/Vichy regime)   

Apr 29   On this day in history 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) in the year 1856.   

May 06   On this day in history the birth of Robert Peary, American Artic explorer   

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

May 13   In the year 1856 peter Henry Emerson, 1st to promote photography as an independent art   

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Jan 06   Giuseppe Martucci, composer was born in the year 1856.   

Jan 09   On this day in history birth of anton Askerc, Slavic priest/poet (Primoz Trubar)   

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   In the year 1856 birth of christian August Sinding, Kongsberg Norway, composer   

Jan 12   On this day in history birth of john Singer Sargent, US, portrait painter (Wyndham Sisters)   

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

Jan 18   On this day in history birth of daniel Nathan Hale Williams, surgeon (1st open heart operation)   

Jan 05   Pierre J David, [David d'Angers], French sculptor, dies at 67 in the year 1856.   

Jan 11   Nikolai I Nadezjdin, Russian archaeologist, dies [NS=Jan 23] in the year 1856.   

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

Jan 16   On this day in history death of thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist (b. 1795)   

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

Jan 24   On this day in history death of rabbi Yechezkel of Kuzmir, Polish Hasidic leader (b. 1775)   

Feb 08   Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist (b. 1773) died on this day in history.   

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