Page 2: Historical Events In 1856

Feb 29   In the year 1856 hostilities in Russo-Turkish War cease   

Mar 01   In the year 1856 florimond Fonteyne, Flemish priest/politician (Volkseeuw)   

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   On this day in history matilde Serao, [Tuffolina], Italian writer (Land of Cockayne)   

Mar 09   In the year 1856 sigma Alpha Epsilon is founded in the Johnston Mansion House on the University of Alabama   

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

Mar 20   Frederick Winslow Taylor, father of scientific management in the year 1856.   

Mar 25   A E Burnside patents Burnside carbine on this day in history.   

Mar 26   On this day in history david Alfred Thomas, Glamorganshire UK, 1st Viscount Rhondda   

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   In the year 1856 pyotr Ivanovich Turchaninov, composer, dies at 76   

Mar 30   In the year 1856 russia signs Peace of Paris, ending the Crimean War   

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

Apr 05   On this day in history booker Taliaferro Washington, pioneer educator (1st black on US stamp)   

Apr 10   The Theta Chi Fraternity is founded at Norwich University on this day in history.   

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

Apr 11   On this day in history battle of Rivas; Costa Rica beats Wm Walker's invading Nicaraguans   

Apr 12   William M Conway, English historian/explorer (Spitzbergen) in the year 1856.   

Apr 18   Russian Republic Chancellor Earl von Nesselrode resigns on this day in history.   

Apr 21   On this day in history 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   On this day in history henri POBJ Pétain, French marshal (Verdun/Vichy regime)   

Apr 29   In the year 1856 peace between England & Russia   

May 03   Adolfo Fumagalli, composer, dies at 27 on this day in history.   

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

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

May 06   On this day in history the birth of Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychologist   

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   Peter Henry Emerson, 1st to promote photography as an independent art on this day in history.   

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Jan 06   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.   

Jan 09   Stevan Mokranjac, composer was born on this day in history.   

Jan 11   On this day in history birth of christian August Sinding, Kongsberg Norway, composer   

Jan 12   John Singer Sargent, US, portrait painter (Wyndham Sisters) was born on this day in history.   

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 on this day in history.   

Jan 05   Pierre J David, [David d'Angers], French sculptor, dies at 67 on this day in history.   

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   In the year 1856 death of thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist (b. 1795)   

Jan 17   On this day in history thomas Attwood Walmisley, composer, dies at 41   

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   Heinrich Heine, German poet, dies at 58 in Paris in the year 1856.