1855 in the United States
Map of the United States in 1855, by Albert Bushnell Hart Events from the year 1855 in the United States .
Incumbents
Events
Cincinnati riots of 1855 April – Cincinnati riots of 1855 : Tension between nativists and German-American immigrants in Cincinnati breaks out into territorial street fighting on election day.
May 17 – The Mount Sinai Hospital is dedicated (as the Jews' Hospital) in New York City ; it opens to patients on June 5.
June 6 – Portland Rum Riot : A crowd gathers at a storehouse believed to hold alcohol in Portland, Maine . The militia is called in and fires on the crowd to disperse the crowd, killing one person.
June 28 – The Sigma Chi fraternity is founded at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
July 1 – Quinault Treaty signed, Quinault and Quileute cede their land to the United States.
July 2 – The Kansas Territorial Legislature convenes in Pawnee and begins passing proslavery laws.
July 4 – Walt Whitman 's poetry collection Leaves of Grass Brooklyn .
July 6 – The Kansas Territorial Legislature meets for the last time in Pawnee, voting to relocate to Shawnee , closer to the border of slave state Missouri .
July 16 – U.S. Indian commissioner Isaac Stevens signs the Hellgate treaty with Native Americans living in modern-day western Montana .
August 6
September 3 – First Sioux War : Battle of Ash Hollow – U.S. forces defeat a band of Brulé Lakota in present-day Garden County, Nebraska .
October 5 – Yakima War : Battle of Toppenish Creek – In the Yakima River Valley , a band of Yakama warriors forces a company of U.S. soldiers to retreat in the first battle of the War.
October 28–31 – First Fiji expedition : The U.S. Navy dispatches the USS John Adams to Viti Levu, Fiji , to protect American interests. One American sailor is killed and two Marines are wounded.[ 2]
November 1 – 31 people are killed in the Gasconade Bridge train disaster in Missouri .
November 9–10 – Yakima War : Battle of Union Gap – American soldiers attack a Yakama village, forcing the village to retreat.
November 21 – Large-scale Bleeding Kansas violence begins with events leading to the Wakarusa War between antislavery and proslavery forces.
Ongoing
Births
February 4 – George Cope , painter (died 1929 )
February 23 – Jonathan Bourne, Jr. , U.S. Senator from Oregon from 1907 to 1913 (died 1940 )
June 14 – Robert M. La Follette , U.S. Senator from Wisconsin (died 1925 )
June 17 – Janet Cook Lewis , portrait painter, librarian, and bookbinder (died 1947 )
July 29 – Bowman Brown Law , politician (died 1916 )
August 4 – Jay Hunt , film director (died 1932 )September 2 – M. Hoke Smith , U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1911 to 1920 (died 1931 )
October 21 – Howard Hyde Russell , temperance activist (died 1946 )
October 23 – James S. Sherman , 27th vice president of the United States from 1909 to 1912 (died 1912 )
October 26 – Jessie Wilson Manning , American author and lecturer
November 5 – Eugene V. Debs , union leader (died 1926 )[ 3]
November 6 – Annie Keeler , early woman physician (died 1927 )
December 10 – August Spies , labor activist and newspaper editor (died 1887 )
December 28 – John William Wood, Sr. , North Carolinan politician, founder of Benson, North Carolina (died 1928 )
Deaths
See also
References
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