Dallas, Texas is incorporated as a city (Feb 2), the discovery of mauveine, the first synthetic organic dye, leads eventually to the birth of the chemical industry (Mar), the Treaty of Paris ends the Crimean War (Mar 31), 500 Mormon handcart pioneers leave Iowa for Salt Lake City (Jun 9), the Second Opium War between several western powers and China begins (Oct 8), Gregor Mendel starts his research on genetics, proslavery forces and antislavery forces keep on clashing in the United States – and all these fine people were born:
1856-xx Alibhai Mulla Jeevanjee* merchant/politician/philanthropist. Influential Indian settler in Kenya – Karachi, Bombay Presidency, British India (1936/c. 80)-a
1856-0112 John Singer Sargent* portrait painter – Florence, GD of Tuscany (1925/69)
1856-0121 Gustaf Nyström* architect/teacher – Helsinki, Finland (1917/61)
1856-0221 Frederick William Vanderbilt* railway magnate – New Dorp, Staten Island, NY USA (1938/82)
1856-0308 Bramwell Booth* Salvation Army general – Halifax, England (1929/73)
1856-0309 Eddie Foy Sr.* actor/dancer/vaudevillian – Manhattan, NY USA (1928/71)
1856-0321 Henry Ossian Flipper* former slave/the first African American to graduate from West Point – Thomasville, GA USA (1940/84)
1856-0405 Booker T. Washington* educator/orator/presidential advisor – Hale’s Ford, Virginia USA (1915/59)
1856-0501 Calamity Jane* frontierswoman/scout – Princeton, MO USA (1903/51)
1856-0506 Sigmund Freud* neurologist/ psychoanalyst – Freiberg, Moravia, Austrian Empire (1939/83)
1856-0629 Maria Cederschiöld* journalist/women’s rights activist – Stockholm, Sweden (1935/79)
1856-0710 Nikola Tesla* engineer/ inventor – Smiljan, Austrian Empire (86)
1856-0726 George Bernard Shaw* playwright/activist/N – Portobello, Dublin, Ireland (1950/94)
1856-0810 William Willett* builder/promoter of Daylight Saving Time – Farnham, Surrey, England (1915/58)
1856-0903 Louis Sullivan* architect/”father of skyscrapers” – Boston, MA USA (1924/67)
1856-0927 Bríet Bjarnhéðinsdóttir* women’s rights activist – Vatnsdalur, Iceland (1940/83)
1856-1028 Anna Elizabeth Klumpke* portrait and genre painter – San Francisco, CA USA (1942/85)
1856-1116 Jürgen Kröger* architect/builder of churches – Haale, Germany (1928/71)
1856-1202 Robert Kajanus* conductor/ composer/teacher – Helsinki, Finland (1933/76)
1856-1214 Louis Marshall* civil rights lawyer/Jewish community leader – Syracuse, NY USA (1929/72)
1856-1218 J. J. Thomson* physicist/N – Cheetham Hill, Manchester, England (1940/83)
1856-1228 Woodrow Wilson* politician/28usp – Staunton, VA USA (1924/67)
Updated 20.4.2019
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