Major Events
- Jan 9 Clipper "Guiding Star" disappears in Atlantic, 480 dead
- Jan 23 1st bridge over the Mississippi River in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, opens; today made by the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge
- Jan 28 The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Railway
- Jan 31 Government of Lord Aberdeen in the United Kingdom falls, following heavy scrutiny of the Crimean War
- Jan 31 Treaty of Neah Bay: Makah Reservation established in US Territory of Washington for Makah nation, preserving tribal rights but ceding over 300,000 acres to the US government [1]
- Jan 31 Western railroads blocked by snow
- Feb 3 Wisconsin Supreme Coutt declares US Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional
- Feb 4 Soldiers shoot Jewish families in Coro, Venezuela
- Feb 6 British government of Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston forms
- Feb 8 The Devil's Footprints, hoof-like marks mysteriously appear for over 60km after a snowfall in southern Devon, England
- More 1855 Events
Fun Fact About 1855
The Devil's Footprints, hoof-like marks mysteriously appear for over 60km after a snowfall in southern Devon, England
Articles About 1855
Gillette, The Billionaire Shaving Pioneer
Safety razor pioneer King Camp Gillette, a billionaire who offered a former President a million dollars to join him in a business venture, was born on this day.January 5Grim History of London's Speakers' Corner
Nowhere in England is the principal of free speech embodied more than at Speakers’ Corner in London’s Hyde Park. But this right was won through death and protest.October 14
Famous Weddings in 1855
- Jun 16 British preacher and Salvation Army founder William Booth (26) weds British Salvation Army co-founder Catherine Mumford (26) at Stockwell Green Congregational Church in Surrey, England
- Nov 14 Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart (22) weds Flora Cooke in Fort Riley, Kansas