1856 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1856?
- 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.
- 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.
- May 21, 1856 – Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-slavery forces.
- May 22, 1856 – 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”).
- May 24, 1856 – John Brown and his men kill five slavery supporters at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas.
- 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.
- 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.
- July 31, 1856 – Christchurch, New Zealand is chartered as a city.
- September 2, 1856 – The Tianjing Incident takes place in Nanjing, China.
- 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.
- December 9, 1856 – The Iranian city of Bushehr surrenders to occupying British forces.
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