Notable Historical Events - 1855
1855 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 9 |
Clipper Guiding Star disappears in Atlantic, 480 dead |
Jan 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. |
Jan 28 |
The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Railway. |
Jan 31 |
Western railroads blocked by snow |
Feb 3 |
Wisconsin Supreme Ct declares US Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional |
Feb 4 |
Soldiers shoot Jewish families in Coro, Venezuela |
Feb 5 |
British government of Palmerston forms |
Feb 8 |
The Devil's Footprints mysteriously appear in southern Devon. |
Feb 10 |
US citizenship laws amended; all children of US parents born abroad granted US citizenship |
Feb 11 |
Kassa Hailu is crowned Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia, by Abuna Salama III in a ceremony at the church of Derasge Maryam. |
Feb 12 |
Michigan State University was established. |
Feb 14 |
Texas is linked by telegraph to the rest of the United States, with the completion of a connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas. |
Feb 24 |
US Court of Claims forms for cases against government |
Mar 2 |
Aleksandr Romanov becomes tsar of Russia |
Mar 3 |
US Congress approves $30,000 to test camels for military use |
Mar 3 |
US Congress authorizes registered mail |
Mar 6 |
Gustave Flaubert writes goodbye to Louise Colet |
Mar 8 |
1st train crosses 1st US railway suspension bridge, Niagara Falls |
Mar 15 |
Louisiana establishes 1st health board to regulate quarantine |
Mar 24 |
Manhattan Kansas founded as New Boston Kansas |
Mar 27 |
Abraham Gesner patents kerosene |
Apr 21 |
1st train crosses Miss River's 1st bridge, Rock Is Ill-Davenport Ia |
Apr 26 |
Composer Gioacchino Rossini leaves Italy |
Apr 28 |
1st veterinary college in US incorporated in Boston |
May 3 |
Antwerp-Rotterdam railway opens |
May 5 |
NYC regains Castle Clinton, to be used for immigration |
Jun 1 |
US adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua, reestablishes slavery |
Jun 2 |
The Portland Rum Riot occurs in Portland, Maine. |
Jun 5 |
Anti-foreign anti-Roman Catholic Know-Nothing Party's 1st convention |
Jun 13 |
Opera "Les Vêpres Sicilenne" is produced (Paris) |
Jun 17 |
Heavy French/British bombing of Sebastopol, Crimea: 2,000+ killed |
Jun 20 |
Commissioners appointed to lay out SF streets west of Larkin |
Jun 28 |
The Sigma Chi Fraternity was founded at Miami University |
Jul 4 |
In Brooklyn, New York, the first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, titled Leaves of Grass, is published. |
Jul 20 |
1st train from Rotterdam to Utrecht in Netherlands |
Jul 31 |
Hottest July in Stockholm since at least 1756 (21.4°C avg) |
Aug 1 |
Castle Clinton in NYC opens as 1st US receiving station for immigrants |
Aug 3 |
Rotterdam-Gouda railway opens |
Aug 4 |
John Bartlett publishes "Familiar Quotations" |
Aug 9 |
Battle of Acapulco during Mexican Liberal uprising |
Sep 3 |
Indian Wars: In Nebraska, 700 soldiers under American General William S. Harney avenge the Grattan Massacre by attacking a Sioux village, killing 100 men, women, and children. |
Sep 8 |
Crimean war - assault of Malakof Tower under Patrice de Mac-Mahon, Duke of Magenta |
Sep 27 |
George F Bristow's "Rip Van Winkle", 2nd American opera, opens in NYC |
Oct 9 |
Isaac Singer patents sewing machine motor |
Oct 9 |
Joshua Stoddard of Worcester, Massachusetts, patents first calliope |
Oct 17 |
Bessemer steelmaking process patented |
Oct 18 |
Franz Liszt's "Prometheus," premieres |
Nov 17 |
David Livingstone becomes the first European to see Victoria Falls in what is now Zambia and Zimbabwe. |
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