Page 2: Historical Events In 1856

Feb 29   In the year 1856 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   Georgia becomes first state to regulate railroads on this day in history.   

Mar 07   Argentine & Brazilian sign a navigation pact on this day in history.   

Mar 07   In the year 1856 matilde Serao, [Tuffolina], Italian writer (Land of Cockayne)   

Mar 09   On this day in history 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   Frederick Winslow Taylor, father of scientific management in the year 1856.   

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

Mar 26   On this day in history nSW's 1st 1st-class game, v Victoria at Melbourne NSW won   

Mar 28   Pyotr Ivanovich Turchaninov, composer, dies at 76 on this day in history.   

Mar 30   Russia signs Peace of Paris, ending the Crimean War in the year 1856.   

Apr 03   In the year 1856 gunpowder in church explodes killing 4,000 in Rhodos   

Apr 05   In the year 1856 booker Taliaferro Washington, pioneer educator (1st black on US stamp)   

Apr 10   On this day in history the Theta Chi Fraternity is founded at Norwich University.   

Apr 11   Arthur Shrewsbury, cricketer (dominant England bat late 19th cent) on this day in history.   

Apr 11   Battle of Rivas; Costa Rica beats Wm Walker's invading Nicaraguans on this day in history.   

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

Apr 18   In the year 1856 russian Republic Chancellor Earl von Nesselrode resigns   

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   The first railroad bridge across Mississippi completed on this day in history.   

Apr 22   [Marie] Louise Hens, Flemish actress (Two Orphans) in the year 1856.   

Apr 24   On this day in history henri POBJ Pétain, French marshal (Verdun/Vichy regime)   

Apr 29   On this day in history peace between England & Russia   

May 03   Adolfo Fumagalli, composer, dies at 27 in the year 1856.   

May 06   Robert Edwin Peary, US, arctic explorer (North Pole-Apr 6 1909) on this day in history.   

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

May 06   The birth of Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychologist in the year 1856.   

May 06   William Hamilton, metaphysicist, dies in the year 1856.   

May 07   On this day in history argentine & Brazilian sign a navigation pact   

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

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Jan 06   In the year 1856 birth of giuseppe Martucci, composer   

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

Jan 09   Lizette Woodworth Reese, US poet (Branch of May, Tears) was born in the year 1856.   

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   In the year 1856 birth of john Singer Sargent, US, portrait painter (Wyndham Sisters)   

Jan 14   J. F. Archibald, Australian journalist and publisher (d. 1919) was born in the year 1856.   

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 in the year 1856.   

Jan 11   In the year 1856 nikolai I Nadezjdin, Russian archaeologist, dies [NS=Jan 23]   

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

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 on this day in history.   

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

Feb 08   In the year 1856 death of agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist (b. 1773)   

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