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List of events
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 is published in
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 –
Bloody Monday : Protestant mobs attack
Irish and
German Catholics on an election day in
Louisville, Kentucky , causing 22 deaths.
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.
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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 24 –
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 )
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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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