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1852 1853 1854 - 1855 - 1856 1857 1858
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| align="center" colspan=2 | 1830s 1840s - 1850s ''' - 1860s 1870s 1880s
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1855 was a Common Year Starting On Monday (see link for calendar).
Events
- January 1 - Ottawa, Ontario is incorporated as a city.
- 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.
- January 27 - The Panama Railway becomes the first railroad to connect the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean
- January 29 - Lord Aberdeen resigns as Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom over the management of the Crimean War .
- February 5 - Lord Palmerston becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- February 11 - Kassa Hailu is crowned Tewodros II , Emperor Of Ethiopia , by Abuna Salama III in a ceremony at the church of Derasge Maryam .
- March 3 - US Congress appropriates $30,000 to create US Camel Corps
- March 16 - Bates College in Lewiston, Maine was founded.
- May 15 - The Great Gold Robbery Of 1855 in England
- June 28 - Sigma Chi Fraternity was founded.
- June 29 - The '' Daily Telegraph '' begins publication
- September 3 - Last Bartholomew Fair in London , England
- September 11 - Sevastapol falls to the British troops
- December 22 - Metropolitan Board Of Works established.
- Stamp Duty was removed from Newspapers in Britain creating Mass Market Media in the UK.
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 )
- May 9 - Julius Röntgen , German-Dutch classical composer (d. 1932 )
- July 26 - Ferdinand Tönnies , German sociologist (d. 1936 )
- October 21 - Howard Hyde Russell , American Temperance Movement leader and founder of Anti-Saloon League and Lincoln-Lee Legion (d. 1946 )
- November 5 - Léon Teisserenc De Bort , French meteorologist (d. 1913 )
- November 6 - Ezra Seymour Gosney , American Philanthropist and Eugenicist (d. 1942 )
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 27 - Joseph Smith Jr. , first leader, prophet, and seer, of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints .
- 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 , Lithuanian - Polish poet and writer (b. 1798 )
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