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Highlights. Events. Birthdays. Deaths. Weddings. Jan 8 Dr John Veatch discovers large disports of borax at Tuscan Springs, California. Jan 23 American sidewheel steamer SS Pacific leaves Liverpool, England on what becomes her final voyage; lost at sea enroute to New York with 186 on board.
July 17: The Great Train Wreck of 1856. July 17 – The Great Train Wreck of 1856: Two trains collide near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania killing at least 59 and injuring at least 100. August 10 – 1856 Last Island hurricane: A hurricane destroys Last Island, Louisiana, leaving at least 200 dead.
15 de abr. de 2019 · 1856. Charles Sumner is beaten with a cane by Preston Brooks on the floor of the Senate for an anti-slavery speech. He does not recover fully for three years. Lawrence, Kansas is the center of violence in Kansas when pro-slavery men kill an anti-slavery settler.
October 8 – The Second Opium War between several Western powers and China begins with the Arrow Incident on the Pearl River. October 12 – 1856 Heraklion earthquake: A powerful earthquake rocks the Mediterranean, killing hundreds on the island of Crete and many more in the Middle East.
Andrew J. Donelson. United States presidential election of 1856, American presidential election held on Nov. 4, 1856, in which Democrat James Buchanan defeated Republican John C. Frémont with 174 electoral votes to Frémont’s 114. Whig and former president Millard Fillmore, who ran on the Know-Nothing ticket, garnered only 8 electoral votes.
- Richard Pallardy
Birthdays. Deaths. Weddings. Major Events. Feb 7 Colonial Tasmanian Parliament passes the 1st piece of legislation (the Electoral Act of 1856) anywhere in the world providing for elections by way of a secret ballot. The 1856 Treaty of Paris.
29 de dic. de 2017 · 1853-1856— Crimean War. 1859 — Franco-Austrian War. 1863-1864— Second Polish Revolution. 1866 — Austrian Seven Weeks ’ War against Italy, Germany, and Bohemia. 1870-1871— Franco-Prussian War. 1873-1874— Second Ashanti War. 1877 — Russian-Turkish War. 1877 — War between Britain and Afghanistan. 1877-1878— Kaffir War. NEW NATIONS.
