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1856 Calendar

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•  January 26, 1856 – First Battle of Seattle. Marines from the USS Decatur drive off American Indian attackers after all day battle with settlers.
•  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 22, 1856 – The Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
•  March 30, 1856 – The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Crimean War.
•  April 10, 1856 – The Theta Chi fraternity is founded at Norwich University.
•  April 11, 1856 – Battle of Rivas: Juan Santamaria burns down the hostel where William Walker’s filibusters are holed up.
•  June 9, 1856 – Five hundred Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa and head west for Salt Lake City carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.
•  July 17, 1856 – The Great Train Wreck of 1856 in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, kills over 60 people.
•  November 27, 1856 – The Coup of 1856 leads to Luxembourg’s unilateral adoption of a new, reactionary constitution.

•  January 14, 1856 – J. F. Archibald, Australian journalist and publisher (d. 1919)
•  February 16, 1856 – Willem Kes, Dutch conductor (d. 1934)
•  March 8, 1856 – Colin Campbell Cooper, American Impressionist painter (d. 1937)
•  April 1, 1856 – Acacio Gabriel Viegas, Indian physician (d. 1933)
•  April 15, 1856 – Jean Moréas, Greek poet (d. 1910)
•  May 13, 1856 – Tom O'Rourke, American boxing manager (d. 1938)
•  May 15, 1856 – L. Frank Baum, American author (d. 1919)
•  May 21, 1856 – José Batlle y Ordóñez, Uruguayan politician (d. 1929)
•  August 16, 1856 – Aparicio Saravia, Uruguayan politician and military leader (d. 1904)
•  August 30, 1856 – Carle David Tolmé Runge, German physicist (d. 1927)