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Concept
1855
Summary
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 modern-day Minneapolis, a predecessor of the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge.
The 8.2–8.3 Wairarapa earthquake claims between five and nine lives near the Cook Strait area of New Zealand.
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 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.
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. Missourian 'Border Ruffians' cross the border in large numbers to elect a pro-slavery body.
April 3 – The Nepalese invasion of Tibet starts the Nepalese–Tibetan War (1855-1856).
April 7 – Battle of Kaba: The Kingdom of Tonga intervenes in the war between the self-proclaimed Tui Viti (King) of Fiji, Cakobau, and his rivals the Confederation of Rewa resulting in Rewa's defeat and the tenuous unification of Fiji under Cakobau.
April 18 – The Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855 is first listed.
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