1856 Calendar
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1856 Historical Event(s)
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.
April 11, 1856
– Battle of Rivas: Juan Santamaria burns down the hostel where William Walker’s filibusters are holed up.
May 21, 1856
– Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-slavery forces.
June 8, 1856
– A group of 194 Pitcairn Islanders, descendants of the mutineers of HMS Bounty, arrives at Norfolk Island commencing the Third Settlement of the Island.
July 31, 1856
– Christchurch, New Zealand is chartered as a city.
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.
December 9, 1856
– The Iranian city of Bushehr surrenders to occupying British forces.
Who Were Born On 1856?
January 9, 1856
– Anton Aškerc, Slovenian priest and poet (d. 1912)
March 9, 1856
– Tom Roberts, Australian artist (d. 1931)
March 20, 1856
– Sir John Lavery, Irish artist (d. 1941)
April 11, 1856
– Arthur Shrewsbury, English cricketer (d. 1903)
May 15, 1856
– Matthias Zurbriggen, Swiss mountaineer and guide (d. 1917)
June 14, 1856
– Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician (d. 1922)
June 22, 1856
– H. Rider Haggard, English writer (d. 1925)
November 3, 1856
– Jim McCormick, American baseball player (d. 1918)
December 11, 1856
– Georgi Plekhanov, Russian revolutionary and Marxist theoretician (d. 1918)
December 13, 1856
– Svetozar Boroević, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1920)