1855

( 1850s: ) 1855
( 1850s: ) 1855
	Lord Palmerston becomes British Prime Minister
	Year 1855

1845 < 1846 < 1847 < 1848 < 1849 < 1850 < 1851 <1852 < 1853 < 1854 < 1855 > 1856 > 1857 > 1858 > 1859 > 1860 > 1861 > 1862 > 1863 > 1864 > 1865

Events

January 27 – The Panama Railway becomes the first railroad to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
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.
March 2 – Alexander II ascends the Russian throne, upon the death of his father Nicholas I.
March 17 – Taiping Rebellion: A Taiping army of 350,000 invades Anhui.
March 30 – Elections are held for the first Kansas Territory legislature. Missourian 'Border Ruffians' cross the border in large numbers to elect a pro-slavery body.
May 1 – Van Diemen's Land is separated administratively from New South Wales and granted self-government.
May 22 – The province of Victoria is separated administratively from New South Wales.
June 15 – Stamp duty is removed from British newspapers, creating mass media in the United Kingdom.
June 29 – The Daily Telegraph newspaper begins publication in London.
July – Bank of Toronto incorporated in Canada (in 1955 it will merge with The Dominion Bank to become Toronto-Dominion Bank)
July 16 – The Australian Colonies are granted self-governing status by the United Kingdom.
October 17 – Henry Bessemer files his patent in the United Kingdom for the Bessemer process of steelmaking.
December 22 – The Metropolitan Board of Works is established in London.

Samuel Colt incorporates his business as the Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company and opens a new factory, the Colt Armory, in Hartford, Connecticut.
The cocaine alkaloid is first isolated by German chemist Friedrich Gaedcke.
Palm oil sales from West Africa to the United Kingdom reach 40,000 tons.

Group	Type	Description
The College of New Jersey		New Jersey college with emphasis placed on liberal arts
University of San Francisco	Military ranks Society of Jesus	A private Jesuit university in San Francisco, California.
Pennsylvania State University	• Public • Flagship • State-related • Land-grant • Sea-grant • Space-grant • Sun-grant • Multi-campus
Geelong Grammar School		Ruling class school. The school's fees are the most expensive in Australia.
William Paterson University	Public	New Jersey public university
ETH Zurich	Public	ETH Zurich is among other things sponsored by Big Ag Syngenta
Eureka College	Private College	Private college in Illinois. Ronald Reagan was an alumnus.

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Summary	Description
Henry Lehman	1822	17 November 1855	US Louisiana New Orleans	Businessperson	Founder of Lehman Brothers, which grew from a cotton and fabrics shop during his life to become a large finance firm under his brothers' descendants.

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Andrew Mellon	24 March 1855	United States Pennsylvania Pittsburgh	26 August 1937	Politician Banker
Tōyama Mitsuru	27 May 1855		5 October 1944	Deep state actor
Robert La Follette	14 June 1855		18 June 1925	Politician	La Follette stated that his chief goal was to break the "combined power of the private monopoly system over the political and economic life of the American people"
Walter Page	15 August 1855	US North Carolina Cary	21 December 1918	Diplomat Journalist Deep state functionary	A US diplomat who received money from Woodrow Wilson's banker, Cleveland Dodge.
Eugene Debs	5 November 1855	United States Indiana Terre Haute	20 October 1926	Firefighter Grocer Union organizer	“Getting a living under capitalism... is so precarious, so uncertain, fraught with such pain and struggle that the wonder is not that so many people become vicious and criminal, but that so many remain in docile submission to such a tyrannous and debasing condition.”
Walter Cunliffe	3 December 1855	London United Kingdom	6 January 1920	Central banker	Governor of the Bank of England 1913-1918

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