What is 1855?
{{Year nav|1855}} {{Year in various calendars|1855}} {{Year article header|1855}} == Events == * [[January 1]] – [[London, Ontario]] is incorporated as a city. * [[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. * [[January 29]] – [[George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen|Lord Aberdeen]] resigns as [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] over the management of the [[Crimean War]]. * [[February 5]] – [[Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston|Lord Palmerston]] becomes [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] * [[February 11]] – Kassa Hailu is crowned [[Tewodros II of Ethiopia|Tewodros II]], [[Emperor of Ethiopia]], by [[Abuna Salama III]] in a ceremony at the church of [[Derasge Maryam]]. * [[March 3]] – [[US Congress]] appropriates $30,000 to create [[US Camel Corps]] * [[March 16]] – [[Bates College]] in [[Lewiston, Maine]] was founded. * [[May 15]] – The [[Great Gold Robbery of 1855]] in [[England]] * [[June 29]] – The ''[[Daily Telegraph]]'' begins publication * [[September 3]] – Last [[Bartholomew Fair]] on [[London]], [[England]] * [[September 11]] – [[Sevastapol]] falls to the British troops * [[December 22]] – [[Metropolitan Board of Works]] established. * [[Stamp duty]] was removed from [[newspapers]] in [[United Kingdom|Britain]] creating [[mass market]] [[Mass media|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. == Births == *[[May 1]] - [[Cecilia Beaux]], American painter *[[May 10]] - [[Sri Yukteswar Giri]], Indian [[guru]] [[Category:1855| ]]