1856
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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 18th century – 19th century – 20th century |
| Decades: | 1820s 1830s 1840s – 1850s – 1860s 1870s 1880s |
| Years: | 1853 1854 1855 – 1856 – 1857 1858 1859 |
1856 Media
March 30: The Congress of Paris by Édouard Dubufe. The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Crimean War.
March 5: Covent Garden Theatre fire.
A photograph image of Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) at age 34.
Alfred Deakin
American children's author and educator Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856-1923)
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1856 (MDCCCLVI) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1856th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 856th year of the 2nd millennium, the 56th year of the 19th century, and the 7th year of the 1850s decade. As of the start of 1856, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Births
- April 5 – Booker T. Washington, American inventor, educator, and writer (d. 1915)
- July 10 – Nikola Tesla, Croatian physicist (d. 1943)
- July 26 – George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer (d. 1950)
- August 3 – Alfred Deakin, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1919)
- December 28 – Woodrow Wilson, twenty-eighth President of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize recipient (d. 1924)