1855 (original) (raw)

Events

January 28 - first locomotive runs from the Atlantic to the Pacific on the newly completed Panama Railway
March 2 - accession of Russian Tsar Alexander II
March 30 - "Border Ruffians" from Missouri invade Kansas and force election of a pro-slavery legislature.
July 4 - In Brooklyn, New York, Walt Whitman's first edition of his book of poem's titled Leaves of Grass is published.
September 3 - Indian Wars: In Nebraska, 700 soldiers under American General William Harney avenge the Grattan Massacre by attacking a Sioux village killing 100 men, women, and children.
November - David Livingstone discovers the Victoria Falls
accession of Emperor Theodore II of Ethiopia
Gustave Courbet sets up Pavilion of Realism in protest against "official art" at Paris International Exhibition
Daily Telegraph newspaper founded in London, England
Sheffield F.C, the first ever football club is founded

Maxwell unifies electricity and magnetism into a single theory, classical electromagnetism, thereby showing that light is an electromagnetic wave.\n