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1855
Events
January–March
January 1
–
Ottawa, Ontario
is incorporated as a city.
January 5
–
Ramón Castilla
begins his third term as President of
Peru
.
January 23
The first bridge over the
Mississippi River
opens in what is now
Minneapolis
, a predecessor of the modern-day
Father Louis Hennepin Bridge
.
The region of
Wairarapa
, New Zealand is hit by the strongest earthquake ever recorded in New Zealand (Magnitude 8.1 on the
Richter Scale
); there are five deaths.
January 26
– The
Point No Point Treaty
is signed in the
Washington Territory
.
January 27
– The
Panama Railway
becomes the first railroad to connect the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean.
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
.
February 12
–
Michigan State University
(the "pioneer"
land-grant college
) is established.
February 15
– The
North Carolina General Assembly
incorporates the
Western North Carolina Railroad
to build a rail line from
Salisbury
to the western part of the state.
February 22
–
Pennsylvania State University
is founded as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania.
March 2
–
Alexander II
ascends the Russian throne, upon the death of his father
Nicholas I
.
March 3
– The
United States Congress
appropriates $30,000 to create the
U.S. Camel Corps
.
March 16
–
Bates College
is founded by abolitionists in
Lewiston, Maine
.
March 17
–
Taiping Rebellion
: A Taiping army of 350,000 invades
Anhui
.
March 30
– Elections are held for the first
Kansas Territory
legislature.
Missourians
cross the border in large numbers to elect a
pro-slavery
body.
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