Page 3: Historical Events In 1855

Apr 29   Anatol K Liadov, Russian composer (Bewitched Lake) [OS] in the year 1855.   

Apr 30   Henry Rowley Bishop, British composer/conductor, dies at 68 on this day in history.   

May 02   Theodore Moses Tobani, composer in the year 1855.   

May 03   In the year 1855 antwerp-Rotterdam railway opens   

May 04   On this day in history camille Pleyel, Austria piano builder/composer, dies at 66   

May 05   On this day in history nYC regains Castle Clinton, to be used for immigration   

May 09   On this day in history julius Rontgen, composer   

May 10   In the year 1855 anatoli Liadov, St Petersburg, Russia, composer (Enchanted Lake) [NS]   

May 11   In the year 1855 anatol Konstantinovich Lyadov, Russian composer (Bewitched Lake)   

May 15   In the year 1855 eduard earl of Keyserling, German writer (Dritte Stiege)   

May 15   Jan Mazereeuw, Frisian farmer/sect leader, dies at 75 in the year 1855.   

May 21   In the year 1855 emile A G Verhaeren, Belgian poet/writer (Les Flammes Hautes)   

May 24   On this day in history arthur Wing Pinero, British playwright   

May 27   Nikolaj A Bestoezjev, Russ writer/painter (Account of Holland), dies on this day in history.   

Jun 01   On this day in history uS adventurer Wm Walker conquers Nicaragua, reestablishes slavery   

Jun 02   On this day in history the Portland Rum Riot occurs in Portland, Maine.   

Jun 05   In the year 1855 anti-foreign anti-Roman Catholic Know-Nothing Party's 1st convention   

Jun 05   Anti-foreign anti-Roman Catholic Know-Nothing Party's first convention in the year 1855.   

Jun 13   Opera "Les Vêpres Sicilenne" is produced (Paris) on this day in history.   

Jun 14   On this day in history robert Marion La Follette, Wisconsin, pres candidate (Progressive)   

Jun 17   On this day in history fritz Steinbach, composer   

Jun 17   On this day in history heavy French/British bombing of Sebastopol, 2000+ killed   

Jun 20   In the year 1855 commissioners appointed to lay out SF streets west of Larkin   

Jun 22   In the year 1855 sam Morris, Hobart, cricketer (Barbados parents only black Aus player)   

Jun 23   On this day in history maude Valerie White, composer   

Jun 28   On this day in history giovanni Agostino Perotti, composer, dies at 86   

Jun 28   The Sigma Chi Fraternity was founded at Miami University in the year 1855.   

Jul 03   Piotr Maszynski, composer in the year 1855.   

Jul 04   In the year 1855 in Brooklyn, New York, the first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, titled Leaves of Grass, is published.   

Jul 09   Johann P Zilcher, German composer on this day in history.   

Jul 09   On this day in history lord Raglan Commander of the British forces during the Crimean War   

Jul 14   Richard Samuel Hughes, composer on this day in history.   

Jul 16   In the year 1855 charles Francis Abdy Williams, composer   

Jul 20   In the year 1855 1st train from Rotterdam to Utrecht in Netherlands   

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Jan 03   Hubert Bland, English socialist (d. 1914) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 05   King Camp Gillette, inventor (safety razor) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 10   Peter J Blok, Dutch historian (History of the Dutch People) was born in the year 1855.   

Jan 15   On this day in history birth of jacques Damala, Greek military officer and actor (d. 1889)   

Jan 20   In the year 1855 birth of amedee-Ernest Chausson, composer   

Jan 21   John M Browning, US, weapons manufacturer was born on this day in history.   

Jan 22   Ernst Kullak, composer was born on this day in history.   

Jan 23   John Moses Browning, American inventor (d. 1926) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 06   In the year 1855 death of giacomo Beltrami, Italian explorer (b. 1779)   

Jan 10   Mary Russell Mitford, Engl playwright/poet (Julian), dies at 67 in the year 1855.   

Jan 25   In the year 1855 dorothy Wordsworth, writer, dies at 83   

Jan 26   Gérard de Nerval, French writer (b. 1808) died in the year 1855.   

Feb 06   On this day in history death of josef Munzinger, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1791)   

Feb 20   On this day in history joseph Hume, social reformer, dies   

Feb 23   On this day in history carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician, dies   

Mar 02   In the year 1855 nicholas I Pavlovitch, tsar of Russia (1825-55), dies at 58