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1856 Historical Event(s)
January 26, 1856
– First Battle of Seattle. Marines from the USS Decatur drive off American Indian attackers after all day battle with settlers.
January 29, 1856
– Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross.
February 7, 1856
– The Kingdom of Awadh is annexed by the British East India Company and Wajid Ali Shah, the king of Awadh, is imprisoned and later exiled to Calcutta.
February 8, 1856
– Barbu Dimitrie Ştirbei abolishes slavery in Wallachia.
April 10, 1856
– The Theta Chi fraternity is founded at Norwich University.
May 21, 1856
– Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-slavery forces.
October 8, 1856
– The Second Opium War between several western powers and China begins with the Arrow Incident on the Pearl River.
November 6, 1856
– Scenes of Clerical Life, the first work of fiction by the author later known as George Eliot, is submitted for publication.
November 17, 1856
– American Old West: On the Sonoita River in present-day southern Arizona, the United States Army establishes Fort Buchanan in order to help control new land acquired in the Gadsden Purchase.
November 27, 1856
– The Coup of 1856 leads to Luxembourg’s unilateral adoption of a new, reactionary constitution.
Who Were Born On 1856?
February 16, 1856
– Rudolph Karstadt, German entrepreneur (d. 1944)
March 16, 1856
– Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial, only child of Emperor Napoleon III of France (d. 1879)
May 15, 1856
– L. Frank Baum, American author (d. 1919)
July 23, 1856
– Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian nationalist (d. 1920)
August 1, 1856
– George Coulthard, Former Australian rules footballer and cricketer (d. 1883)
August 16, 1856
– Aparicio Saravia, Uruguayan politician and military leader (d. 1904)
November 22, 1856
– Heber J. Grant, American religious leader (d. 1945)
December 18, 1856
– Sir J. J. Thomson, English physicist and Nobel laureate (d. 1940)
December 25, 1856
– Hans von Bartels, German painter (d. 1913)