1855 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1855?
- January 23, 1855 – The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, a crossing made today by the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge.
- January 26, 1855 – Point No Point Treaty is signed in Washington Territory.
- January 28, 1855 – The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Railway.
- February 8, 1855 – The Devil’s Footprints mysteriously appear in southern Devon.
- February 11, 1855 – Kassa Hailu is crowned Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia, by Abuna Salama III in a ceremony at the church of Derasge Maryam
- February 12, 1855 – Michigan State University is established.
- February 14, 1855 – Texas is linked by telegraph to the rest of the United States, with the completion of a connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas.
- February 22, 1855 – The Pennsylvania State University is founded in State College, Pennsylvania (as the Farmers’ High School of Pennsylvania)
- March 2, 1855 – Alexander II becomes Tsar of Russia.
- March 30, 1855 – Origins of the American Civil War: Bleeding Kansas – “Border Ruffians” from Missouri invade Kansas and force election of a pro-slavery legislature.
- April 19, 1855 – Visit of Napoleon III to Guildhall, London
- May 4, 1855 – American adventurer William Walker departs from San Francisco with about 60 men to conquer Nicaragua.
- June 1, 1855 – American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua.
- June 2, 1855 – The Portland Rum Riot occurs in Portland, Maine.
- July 1, 1855 – Signing of the Quinault Treaty: the Quinault and the Quileute cede their land to the United States.
- July 4, 1855 – In Brooklyn, New York, the first edition of Walt Whitman’s book of poems, titled Leaves of Grass, is published.
- August 1, 1855 – The first ascent of Monte Rosa, the second highest summit in the Alps.
- September 3, 1855 – Indian Wars: in Nebraska, 700 soldiers under United States General William S. Harney avenge the Grattan Massacre by attacking a Sioux village and killing 100 men, women and children.
- September 9, 1855 – Crimean War: The Siege of Sevastopol comes to an end when Russian forces abandon the city.
- November 17, 1855 – David Livingstone becomes the first European to see the Victoria Falls in what is now present-day Zambia-Zimbabwe.
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