1855

Years:
1852 1853 1854 - 1855 - 1856 1857 1858

Decades:
1820s 1830s 1840s - 1850s - 1860s 1870s 1880s

Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century

1855 in topic:
Arts
Architecture - Art - Literature - Music
Other topics
Canada - Rail transport - Science - South Africa - Sport

Lists of leaders:
Colonial governors - State leaders

1855 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).

Events

January 23 - 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 23 - The region of Wairarapa, New Zealand was hit by the strongest earthquake ever recorded in New Zealand, which reached Magnitude 8.1 on the Richter Scale. There were five deaths.
February 11 - Kassa Hailu is crowned Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia, by Abuna Salama III in a ceremony at the church of Derasge Maryam.
George Hamilton-Gordon is forced to resign as Prime Minister of Britain because of bad management of the campaigns in the Crimean War and the general unpopularity of that war.
Stamp duty was removed from newspapers in Britain creating mass market media in the UK.
The Panama Railway becomes the first railroad to connect the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean by rail as the railroad's route across Panama is completed.

January 5 - King Camp Gillette, American inventor (d. 1932)
January 20 - Ernest Chausson, French composer (d. 1899)
January 21 - John Moses Browning, American firearms inventor (d. 1926)
January 28 - William Seward Burroughs, American bank clerk and inventor (d. 1898)
March 13 - Percival Lowell, American astronomer (d. 1916)
March 24 - Andrew Mellon, American banker and philanthropist (d. 1937)
April 21 - Hardy Richardson, 19th century baseball player (d. 1931)
April 27 - Caroline R�my, French feminist (d. 1929)
May 1 - Marie Corelli, English novelist (d. 1924)
November 5 - L�on Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (d. 1913)