1855

Years: 1852 1853 1854 - 1855 - 1856 1857 1858
Decades: 1820s 1830s 1840s - 1850s - 1860s 1870s 1880s
Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century Template:C19YearInTopic

1855 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).

Events

January 1 - London, Ontario is incorporated as a city.
January 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.
January 23 - The region of Wairarapa, New Zealand was hit by the strongest earthquake ever recorded in New Zealand, which reached Magnitude 8.1 on the Richter Scale. There were five deaths.
January 27 - The Panama Railway becomes the first railroad to connect the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean
January 29 - Lord Aberdeen resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom over the management of the Crimean War.
February 5 - Lord Palmerston becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
February 11 - Kassa Hailu is crowned Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia, by Abuna Salama III in a ceremony at the church of Derasge Maryam.
March 3 - US Congress appropriates $30,000 to create US Camel Corps
March 16 - Bates College in Lewiston, Maine was founded.
May 15 - The Great Gold Robbery of 1855 in England
June 28 - Sigma Chi Fraternity was founded.
June 29 - The Daily Telegraph begins publication
September 3 - Last Bartholomew Fair in London, England
September 11 - Sevastapol falls to the British troops
December 22 - Metropolitan Board of Works established.
Stamp duty was removed from newspapers in Britain creating mass market media in the UK.

January 6 - Giacomo Beltrami, Italian explorer (b. 1779)
January 26 - Gérard de Nerval, French writer (b. 1808)
February 6 - Josef Munzinger, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1791)
February 23 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (b. 1777)
March 29 - Henri Druey, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1799)
March 31 - Charlotte Brontë, English author (b. 1816)
May 5 - Robert Inglis, English politician (b. 1786)
May 23 - Charles Robert Malden English explorer (b. 1797)
June 27 - Joseph Smith Jr., first leader, prophet, and seer, of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
June 28 - Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Lord Raglan, commander of British forces in the Crimean War (b. 1788)
August 7 - Mariano Arista, President of Mexico (b. 1802)
November 11 - Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (b. 1813)
November 26 - Adam Mickiewicz, Lithuanian - Polish poet and writer (b. 1798)af:1855