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Special Events for the Year 1856 - back to GREGSITE

Born :08/05/1856Achad Ha'am, [Asjr Ginsberg], Hebrew philosopher/writer
Born :06/14/1856Andrey Markov, Russia, mathematician (Markov Chain)
Born :07/23/1856Bal Gangadhar Tilak, British-Indian Hindi leader
Born :04/05/1856Booker Taliaferro Washington, pioneer educator (1st black on US stamp)
Born :02/25/1856Charles Lang Freer, art collector; endowed Freer Gallery [or 1876]
Born :01/11/1856Christian Sinding, Kongsberg, Norway, composer
Born :07/09/1856Daniel Guggenheim, US (Guggenheim Museum)
Born :01/18/1856Daniel Nathan Hale Williams, perform 1st open heart operation
Born :03/16/1856E Louis YY Napoleon Bonaparte, French/English prince
Born :09/28/1856Edward Thompson, US archaeologist who explored Mayan ruins
Born :06/19/1856Elbert Hubbard, US, editor/publisher/author (Message to Garcia)
Born :03/01/1856Florimond Fonteyne, Flemish priest/politician (Volkseeuw)
Born :02/14/1856Frank Harris, England, journalist/writer (My Life & Loves)
Born :12/22/1856Frank Kellogg, Sec of State (1925-29), try to outlaw war (Nobel 1929)
Born :03/20/1856Frederick Winslow Taylor, father of scientific management
Born :08/22/1856Friedrich Kstner, German astronomer
Born :07/26/1856George Bernard Shaw, Dublin Ire, dramatist (Pygmalion-Nobel 1925)
Born :12/11/1856Georgi V Plechanov, Russian revolutionary theorist
Born :06/30/1856Gerrit Kalff, writer (history of Dutch writers)
Born :11/22/1856Heber J Grant, Salt Lake City, 7th pres of Mormon church
Born :02/21/1856Hendrik P Berlage, architect (Stock exchange Amsterdam)
Born :04/24/1856Henri POBJ Ptain, French marshal (Verdun/Vichy regime)
Born :10/24/1856Henri POBJ Ptain, French marshal (Verdun/Vichy-regime)
Born :06/22/1856Henry Rider Haggard, author (King Solomon's Mine, She, Dawn)
Born :08/15/1856J Keir Hardie, 1st Labour representative in British Parliament
Born :04/15/1856Jean Moras, [Yannis Papadiamantopoulos], Greek/French poet
Born :01/12/1856John Singer Sargent, US, portrait painter (Wyndham Sisters)
Born :12/18/1856Joseph John Thomson, Eng, physicist discovered electron (Nobel 1906)
Born :09/28/1856Kate Douglas Wiggins, author (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm)
Born :11/13/1856Louis D Brandeis, Mass, 68th Supreme Court Justice (1916-39)
Born :09/03/1856Louis Henri Sullivan, Boston Mass, father of modern US architecture
Born :07/21/1856Louise Blanchard Bethune, 1st US woman architect
Born :05/15/1856Lyman Frank Baum, children's book author (Wizard of Oz)
Born :03/07/1856Matilde Serao, [Tuffolina], Italian writer (Land of Cockayne)
Born :08/06/1856Nestor de Tire, Flemish poet (Roze Kate)
Born :11/06/1856Nicholas Nikolajevitsj, ruler of Russia
Born :07/10/1856Nikola Tesla, Yugoslavia, physicist, developed alternating current
Born :05/13/1856Peter Henry Emerson, 1st to promote photography as an independent art
Born :10/15/1856R G Nivelle, French military man
Born :07/30/1856Richard B Haldane, British viscount/lord-chancellor (Life of A Smith)
Born :05/06/1856Robert Edwin Peary, US, arctic explorer (North Pole-Apr 6 1909)
Born :11/07/1856Semyon Zonovyevich Alapin, Vilna, tied for chess 1st place (1878)
Born :11/25/1856Sergei Taneyev, Russia, composer (Oresteia)
Born :05/06/1856Sigmund Freud, Austria, cigar smoker, father of psychology
Born :11/29/1856Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, German Chancellor/premier Prussia
Born :09/23/1856William Archer, Scotland, writer (Green Goddess)
Born :04/12/1856William M Conway, English historian/explorer (Spitzbergen)
Born :12/28/1856Woodrow Wilson, Staunton Va, (D), 28th pres (1912-21, Nobel 1919)
Born :09/02/1856Yang Hsiu-ch'ing, commander in chief of Taiping Rebellion




Died :11/20/1856Farkas/Wolfgang Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician, dies at 81
Died :02/17/1856Heinrich Heine, German poet, dies at 58 in Paris
Died :09/24/1856Henry, 1st viscount Hardinge of Lahore, gov-gen of India, dies
Died :07/04/1856Istvan Ferenczi, Hungarian sculptor, dies
Died :01/05/1856Pierre J David, [David d'Angers], French sculptor, dies
Died :07/29/1856Robert A Schumann, German pianist/composer (Humoresque), dies at 46
Died :08/14/1856William Buckland, dean (Westminister)/geologist, dies
Died :05/06/1856William Hamilton, metaphysicist, dies




Special :02/22/18561st national meeting of Republican Party, Pittsburgh
Special :04/21/18561st railroad bridge across Mississippi completed
Special :05/15/18562nd SF Vigilance Committee organized
Special :02/18/1856American (Know-Nothing) Party abolishes secrecy
Special :05/07/1856Argentinian & Brazilian sign a navigation pact
Special :03/31/1856Asteroid 40, Harmonia discovered (named for daughter of Mars)
Special :08/16/1856Asteroid 46, Hestia discovered (or 1857)
Special :04/11/1856Battle of Rivas; Costa Rica beats Wm Walker's invading Nicaraguans
Special :09/14/1856Battle of San Jacinto, Nicaragua defeats invaders
Special :01/25/1856Battle of Seattle; skirmish between settlers & Indians
Special :10/24/1856Constitution of South Australia adopted
Special :05/27/1856Doctor William Palmer found guilty of poisoning
Special :01/08/1856Dr John A Veatch discovers borax, Tuscan Springs, Calif
Special :03/05/1856Georgia becomes 1st state to regulate railroads
Special :04/03/1856Gunpowder in church explodes killing 4,000 in Rhodos
Special :03/31/1856H Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #40 Harmonia
Special :05/22/1856H Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #41 Daphne
Special :02/19/1856Hamilton Smith, Gambier, Ohio, obtains US patent on tin-type camera
Special :02/29/1856Hostilities in Russo-Turkish War cease
Special :08/10/1856Hurricane washes away 2-300 revelers at Last Island, Louisiana
Special :01/12/1856J Chacornac discovers asteroid #38 Leda
Special :02/08/1856J Chacornac discovers asteroid #39 Laetitia
Special :11/04/1856James Buchanan elected as president
Special :10/19/1856James Kelly & Jack Smith fight bareknuckle for 6h15m in Melbourne
Special :02/20/1856John Rutledge, Liverpool-NY steamer, hits iceberg-many die
Special :05/21/1856Lawrence, Kans captured, sacked by pro-slavery forces
Special :05/23/1856N R Pogson discovers asteroid #42 Isis
Special :07/15/1856Natal established as a British colony separate from Cape Colony
Special :04/29/1856Peace between England & Russia
Special :06/08/1856Pitcairn Islanders arrive on Norfolk Island
Special :06/17/1856Republican Party opens its 1st national convention in Philadelphia
Special :05/19/1856Sen Charles Sumner, Mass, spoke out against slavery
Special :01/23/1856Steamer Pacific lost
Special :07/17/1856Sunday school excursion train collides killing 46 children (Phila)
Special :02/19/1856Tin-type camera patented by Hamilton Smith, Gambier, Ohio
Special :01/29/1856Victoria Cross established to acknowledge bravery
Special :05/22/1856Violence in Senate, SC rep Brooks used a cane on Mass Sen Sumner
Special :08/20/1856Wilberforce University established in Ohio

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