1855

1855 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1855; MDCCCLV
Ab urbe condita	2608
Armenian calendar	1304; ԹՎ ՌՅԴ
Assyrian calendar	6605
Baháʼí 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); 4552 or 4345; — to —; 乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit); 4553 or 4346
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

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century; 19th century ; 20th century;
Decades:	1830s; 1840s; 1850s ; 1860s; 1870s;
Years:	1852; 1853; 1854; 1855 ; 1856; 1857; 1858;

Events of 1855

January 1 - Ottawa, 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 26 - Point No Point Treaty signed in Washington Territory.
January 27 - The Panama Railway becomes the first railroad to connect the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean.
January 29
- Taiping Rebellion: Shi Dakai wins a spectacular victory over Zeng Guofan's Xiang Army.
- 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.
February 17 - Taiping Rebellion: Triad uprising in Shanghai suppressed.
February 22 - Pennsylvania State University is founded as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania.
March 3 - US Congress appropriates $30,000 to create US Camel Corps
March 16 - Bates College in Lewiston, Maine was founded.
March 17 - Taiping Rebellion: A Taiping army of 350,000 invades Anhui.
March 30 - Elections held for first Kansas Territory legislature. Missourians cross border in large numbers to elect proslavery body.

July 2 - Kansas Territorial legislature convenes in Pawnee and begins passing proslavery laws.
July 16 - Hell Gate Treaty was Created.
September 3 - Last Bartholomew Fair in London, England.
September 11 - Sevastapol falls to the British troops.

November 17 - David Livingstone becomes the first European to see Victoria Falls in what is now present-day Zambia-Zimbabwe.
November 21 - Large-scale Bleeding Kansas violence begins with events leading to "Wakarusa War" between antislavery and proslavery forces.
December 22
- Metropolitan Board of Works established.
- The battle of Santomé, where 3,000 Dominicans defeated 30,000 Haitian troops.

Stamp duty was removed from newspapers in Britain creating mass market media in the UK.

January 5 - King Camp Gillette, American inventor (d. 1932)
January 20 - Ernest Chausson, French composer (d. 1899)
January 21 - John Moses Browning, American firearms inventor (d. 1926)
January 28 - William Seward Burroughs, American bank clerk and inventor (d. 1898)
March 13 - Percival Lowell, American astronomer (d. 1916)
March 24 - Andrew Mellon, American banker and philanthropist (d. 1937)
April 21 - Hardy Richardson, 19th century baseball player (d. 1931)
April 27 - Caroline Rémy, French feminist (d. 1929)
May 1 - Marie Corelli, English novelist (d. 1924)
May 9 - Julius Röntgen, German-Dutch classical composer (d. 1932)
May 10 - Sri Yukteswar Giri, Author of The Holy Science

July 26 - Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist (d. 1936)
October 12 - Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor (d. 1922)
October 21 - Howard Hyde Russell, American activist (d. 1946)
November 5 - Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (d. 1913)
November 6 - Ezra Seymour Gosney, American philanthropist and eugenicist (d. 1942)

See also Category: 1855 births.

January 6 - Giacomo Beltrami, Italian explorer (b. 1779)
January 10 - Mary Russell Mitford, English novelist and dramatist (b. 1787)
January 26 - Gérard de Nerval, French writer (b. 1808)
February 6 - Josef Munzinger, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1791)
February 23 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (b. 1777)
March 2 - Nicholas I of Russia, the 11th Russian Tsar (b. 1796)
March 29 - Henri Druey, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1799)
March 31 - Charlotte Brontë, English author (b. 1816)
May 5 - Robert Inglis, English politician (b. 1786)
May 23 - Charles Robert Malden English explorer (b. 1797)
June 28 - Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Lord Raglan, commander of British forces in the Crimean War (b. 1788)
June 28 - Pavel Nakhimov, Russian admiral (b. 1802)

See also Category: 1855 deaths.