1855

Years:
1852 1853 1854 - 1855 - 1856 1857 1858

Decades:
1820s 1830s 1840s - 1850s - 1860s 1870s 1880s

Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century

1855 in topic:
Arts
Architecture - Art - Literature - Music
Other topics
Canada - Rail transport - Science - South Africa - Sport

Lists of leaders:
Colonial governors - State leaders

From Categories:
births - deaths

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 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
May 15 - The Great Gold Robbery of 1855 in England
June 29 - The Daily Telegraph begins publication
September 3 - Last Bartholomew Fair on London, England
September 11 - Sevastapol falls to the British troops
Stamp duty was removed from newspapers in Britain creating mass market media in the UK.
The Panama Railway becomes the first railroad to connect the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean by rail as the railroad's route across Panama is completed.

January 5 - King Camp Gillette, American inventor (d. 1932)
January 20 - Ernest Chausson, French composer (d. 1899)
January 21 - John Moses Browning, American firearms inventor (d. 1926)
January 28 - William Seward Burroughs, American bank clerk and inventor (d. 1898)
March 13 - Percival Lowell, American astronomer (d. 1916)
March 24 - Andrew Mellon, American banker and philanthropist (d. 1937)
April 21 - Hardy Richardson, 19th century baseball player (d. 1931)
April 27 - Caroline Rémy, French feminist (d. 1929)
May 1 - Marie Corelli, English novelist (d. 1924)
July 26 - Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist (d. 1936)
November 5 - Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (d. 1913)
November 6 - Ezra Seymour Gosney, American philanthropist and eugenicist (d. 1942)

January 6 - Giacomo Beltrami, Italian explorer, gaylord (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 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)
Metropolitan Board of Works established.