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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.
January 11, 1855 Boston Corner was transferred from Massachusetts to New York because it was inaccessible from the rest of the Massachusetts. [220] [221] [222] March 6, 1855 The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Florida in a boundary dispute with Georgia, setting the state boundary line along McNeil's line. [223] no change to map: October 28, 1856
1835 – Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America published. 1835 – Second Seminole War begins in Florida as members of the Seminole tribe resist relocation. 1836 – Creek War of 1836; 1836 – Samuel Colt invents the revolver. 1836 – Original "gag rule" imposed when U.S. House of Representatives bars discussion of antislavery petitions.
1882 hand-colored map depicting the western half of the continental United States. This timeline of the American Old West is a chronologically ordered list of events significant to the development of the American West as a region of the continental United States. The term "American Old West" refers to a vast geographical area and lengthy time ...
Map of the British and French settlements in North America in 1750, before the French and Indian War. Pontiac's Rebellion, 1763–1767; Royal Proclamation of 1763, October 7, 1763 British Indian Reserve, October 7, 1763 – September 3, 1783; War of the Regulation, 1764–1771; Spain establishes El Presidio Reál de San Diego in California, May ...
1855 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1855th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 855th year of the 2nd millennium, the 55th year of the 19th century, and the 6th year of the 1850s decade. As of the start of 1855, the ...
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1855: Over 95 percent of the pro-slavery votes in the election of a Kansas territorial legislature in 1855 are later determined to be fraudulent. [184] Anti-slavery Kansans draft the Topeka Constitution and elect a new legislature that actually represents the majority of legal voters. Kansas now has two constitutions, one pro- and one anti ...