1855
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. 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. 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. 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.
Births January 5 - King Camp Gillette, inventor († 1932) January 21 - John Moses Browning, inventor († 1926) January 28 - William Seward Burroughs, inventor of the calculator († 1898) March 13 - Percival Lowell, astronomer († 1916) March 24 - Andrew Mellon, financier († 1937) April 27 - Caroline Rémy, French feminist (d. 1929) May 1 - Marie Corelli, novelist July 30 - Wilhelm von Siemens, German industrialist November 5 - Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist († 1913)
DeathsJanuary 26 - Gérard de Nerval, French writer (b. 1808)February 6 - Josef Munzinger, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1791)February 23 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician, astronomer and physicistMarch 29 - Henri Druey, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1799)March 31 - Charlotte Brontë, English authorMay 5 - Sir Robert Inglis, Bt, English politician (b. 1786)May 23 - Charles Robert Malden explorerJune 28 - Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Lord Raglan, commander of British forces in the Crimean WarAugust 7 - Mariano Arista, President of MexicoNovember 11 - Søren Kierkegaard, philosopher November 26 - Adam Mickiewicz, Polish poet and author
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