1855
year
1855 (MDCCCLV) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1855th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 855th year of the 2nd millennium, the 55th year of the 19th century, and the 6th year of the 1850s decade. As of the start of 1855, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 18th century – 19th century – 20th century |
| Decades: | 1820s 1830s 1840s – 1850s – 1860s 1870s 1880s |
| Years: | 1852 1853 1854 – 1855 – 1856 1857 1858 |
| Gregorian calendar | 1855 MDCCCLV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2608 |
| Armenian calendar | 1304 ԹՎ ՌՅԴ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6605 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 11–12 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1776–1777 |
| Bengali calendar | 1262 |
| Berber calendar | 2805 |
| British Regnal year | 18 Vict. 1 – 19 Vict. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2399 |
| Burmese calendar | 1217 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7363–7364 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲寅年 (Wood Tiger) 4551 or 4491 — to — 乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 4552 or 4492 |
| Coptic calendar | 1571–1572 |
| Discordian calendar | 3021 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1847–1848 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5615–5616 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1911–1912 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1776–1777 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4955–4956 |
| Holocene calendar | 11855 |
| Igbo calendar | 855–856 |
| Iranian calendar | 1233–1234 |
| Islamic calendar | 1271–1272 |
| Japanese calendar | Ansei 2 (安政２年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1783–1784 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 12 days |
| Korean calendar | 4188 |
| Minguo calendar | 57 before ROC 民前57年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 387 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2397–2398 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳木虎年 (male Wood-Tiger) 1981 or 1600 or 828 — to — 阴木兔年 (female Wood-Rabbit) 1982 or 1601 or 829 |
Events
change- 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 – Lord Aberdeen resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom over the management of the Crimean War.
- February 5 – Lord Palmerston becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- February 11 – Kassa Hailu is crowned 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 Britain creating mass market 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
change- May 1 - Cecilia Beaux, American painter
- May 10 - Sri Yukteswar Giri, Indian guru