Year (''' MDCCCLVI ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Year Starting On Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian Calendar ).
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- April 7 - Foundation of Nelson College , Nelson, New Zealand
- April 10 - Theta Chi Fraternity founded at Norwich University
- April 21 - Stonemasons and building workers on building sites around Melbourne, Australia , stopped work and marched from the University Of Melbourne to Parliament House to achieve an Eight Hour Day .
- May 1 - The creation of the Province of Isabela in the Philippines in honor to the Queen of Spain, Queen Isabela II .
- May 16 - the Vigilance Committee founded in San Francisco, California . It lynches two Gangster s, arrests most Democratic Party officials and disbands itself on August 18
- May 21 - Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro Slavery forces (the " Sacking Of Lawrence ").
- May 22 - Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro- Slavery violence in Kansas (" Bleeding Kansas "). Sumner was unable to return to duty for three years while he recovered. Brooks became a hero across the South.
- May 24 - The Pottawatomie Massacre - group of followers of radical Abolitionist John Brown kill five homesteaders in Franklin County, Kansas
- June 2 - Battle Of Black Jack between proslavery and antislavery forces, led by John Brown , in Bleeding Kansas .
- June 9 - 500 Mormon s leave Iowa City, Iowa and head west for Salt Lake City, Utah carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.
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- Gregor Mendel starts his research on Genetics .
- British Country And Borough Police Act extends London Police model to all of England and Wales .
- Mars Hill College , the oldest college in western North Carolina , is founded in the autumn of 1856.
- Kate Warner , the first female Private Detective , begins to work for the Pinkerton Detective Agency
- Pre-human remains found in the Neanderthal Valley in Germany .
- National Portrait Gallery in London opened.
- Sale of Land starts suburb of Ashgrove, Queensland .
- The first session concludes at St. Paul's School , a New England Prep School in Concord, New Hampshire .
- Founding year of St. Paul's School , Camp, Belgaum .
- Henry Dunant created a business to operate in foreign colonies, and, after granted a land concession by Algeria, a corn-growing and trading company called the "Financial and Industrial Company of Mons-Djémila Mills"
- Suburb of Goodna founded in Queensland , Australia .
- Suburb of St John's Wood founded in Queensland , Australia .
- Western Union is founded.
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- January 11 - Christian Sinding , Norwegian composer (d. 1941 )
- January 12 - John Singer Sargent , American-born artist (d. 1925 )
- February 2 - Frederick William Vanderbilt , American railway magnate (d. 1938 )
- February 14 - Frank Harris , Irish author and editor (d. 1931 )
- March 4 - Alfred William Rich , English watercolour painter and author (d. 1921 )
- March 8
- --- Bramwell Booth , Salvation Army general (d. 1929 )
- --- Tom Roberts , Australian artist (d. 1931 )
- March 9 - Eddie Foy , American singer, dancer, and vaudeville performer (d. 1928 )
- March 16 - Napoléon Eugène Louis John Joseph , Prince Imperial, son of French Emperor Napoleon III (d. 1879 )
- March 20
- ---Sir John Lavery , Irish artist (d. 1941 )
- --- Frederick Winslow Taylor , American inventor and efficiency expert (d. 1915 )
- April 5 - Booker T. Washington , American educator (d. 1915 )
- April 12 - William Martin Conway , British art critic and mountaineer (d. 1937 )
- April 24 - Henri Philippe Pétain , French soldier and statesman (d. 1951 )
- April 26 - Sir Joseph Ward , 17th Prime Minister Of New Zealand (d. 1930 )
- April 27 - Tongzhi Emperor , Emperor of China (d. 1875 )
- May 6
- --- Sigmund Freud , Austrian psychiatrist (d. 1939 )
- --- Robert Peary , American Arctic explorer (d. 1920 )
- May 15 - L. Frank Baum , American author (d. 1919 )
- June 14 - Andrey Markov , Russian mathematician (d. 1922 )
- July 23 - Bal Gangadhar Tilak , Indian political activist (d. 1920 )
- July 10 - Nikola Tesla , Serbian inventor (d. 1943 )
- July 26 - George Bernard Shaw , Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1950 )
- August 10 - William Willett , inventor of Daylight Saving Time (d. 1915 )
- August 13 - Alfred Deakin , second Prime Minister Of Australia (d. 1919 )
- August 15 - Ivan Franko , Ukrainian poet, critic, journalist and political activist (d. 1916 )
- September 1 - Sergei Winogradsky , Russian scientist (d. 1953 )
- September 18 - Wilhelm Von Gloeden , German photographer (d. 1931 )
- November 3 - Jim McCormick , baseball player (d. 1918 )
- November 13 - Louis Brandeis , U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1941 )
- November 21 - William Emerson Ritter , American biologist (d. 1944 )
- November 22 - Heber J. Grant , seventh president of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints (d. 1945 )
- November 24 - Bat Masterson , American lawman (d. 1921 )
- November 29 - Theobald Von Bethmann Hollweg , Chancellor Of Germany (d. 1921 )
- December 13 - Svetozar Boroević , Austrian field marshal (d. 1920 )
- December 18 - J.J. Thomson , English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940 )
- December 22 - Frank B. Kellogg , United States Secretary Of State , recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1937 )
- December 25
- --- Hans Von Bartels , German painter (d. 1913 )
- --- Sir Samuel William Knaggs , British civil servant in the West Indies (d. 1924 )
- December 28 - Woodrow Wilson , 28th President Of The United States , recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1924 )
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