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Historical Event(s)
– 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.
– Barbu Dimitrie Ştirbei abolishes slavery in Wallachia.
– The Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
– Battle of Rivas: Juan Santamaria burns down the hostel where William Walker’s filibusters are holed up.
– Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas (“Bleeding Kansas”).
– A group of 194 Pitcairn Islanders, descendants of the mutineers of HMS Bounty, arrives at Norfolk Island commencing the Third Settlement of the Island.
– The Great Train Wreck of 1856 in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, kills over 60 people.
– The Second Opium War between several western powers and China begins with the Arrow Incident on the Pearl River.
– Scenes of Clerical Life, the first work of fiction by the author later known as George Eliot, is submitted for publication.
– The Coup of 1856 leads to Luxembourg’s unilateral adoption of a new, reactionary constitution.
Who Were Born On ?
– Giuseppe Martucci, Italian composer (d. 1909)
– Colin Campbell Cooper, American Impressionist painter (d. 1937)
– Eddie Foy, American singer and dancer (d. 1928)
– Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist (d. 1939)
– Tom O'Rourke, American boxing manager (d. 1938)
– H. Rider Haggard, English writer (d. 1925)
– Nikola Tesla, Serb-American inventor (d. 1943)
– George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel Laureate (d. 1950)
– Alfred Deakin, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1919)
– Hans von Bartels, German painter (d. 1913)