1855

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

1855 in other calendars

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

• 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

• May 1 - Cecilia Beaux, American painter
• May 10 - Sri Yukteswar Giri, Indian guru