What is 1856?
{{Year nav|1856}} {{Year in various calendars|1856}} {{Year article header|1856}} == Births == * [[April 5]] – [[Booker T. Washington]], American inventor, educator, and writer (d. [[1915]]) * [[July 10]] – [[Nikola Tesla]], Croatian physicist (d. [[1943]]) * [[July 26]] – [[George Bernard Shaw]], Irish writer (d. [[1950]]) * [[August 3]] – [[Alfred Deakin]], 2nd Prime Minister of [[Australia]] (d. [[1919]]) * [[December 28]] – [[Woodrow Wilson]], 28th [[President of the United States]], recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. [[1924]]) [[Category:1856| ]]