1855

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1820s  1830s  1840s  – 1850s –  1860s  1870s  1880s
Years:	1852 1853 1854 – 1855 – 1856 1857 1858

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1855 Media

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  September 9: French and British force captures Sevastopol in Battle of Malakoff.

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  Caroline Rémy de Guebhard (b. April 27)

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  Effie Ellsler (b. September 17)

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  Flora Loughead - Lockheed, opal Queen died - this pic was also in Women of the Century - see Wikisource

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  Carl Friedrich Gauss (d. February 23)

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  Tsar Nicholas I of Russia (d. March 2)

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  Søren Kierkegaard (d. November 11)

1855 (MDCCCLV) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1855th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 855th year of the 2nd millennium, the 55th year of the 19th century, and the 6th year of the 1850s decade. As of the start of 1855, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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
• March 16 – Bates College in Lewiston, Maine was founded.
• 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
• December 22 – Metropolitan Board of Works established.
• 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.

Births

• May 1 - Cecilia Beaux, American painter
• May 10 - Sri Yukteswar Giri, Indian guru