In history, year 1856 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1856.
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
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| 26 january | Puget Sound War: United States Marines from the USS Decatur defeated Native American forces after an all-day battle with settlers in Seattle, Washington. |
| 29 january | Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom issued a Warrant under the Royal sign-manual that established the Victoria Cross, originally torecognise acts of valour by British military personnel during the Crimean War. |
| 21 may | A crowd of about 800 pro-slavery Americans ransacked the townof Lawrence, Kansas. |
| 22 may | US Congressman Preston Brooks attacked Senator Charles Sumner with a cane for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas. |
| 08 june | Descendants of Tahitians and the HMS Bounty mutineers settledon Norfolk Island, an abandoned British penal colony. |
| 09 june | Mormon pioneers began leaving Iowa City, Iowa, and headed westfor Salt Lake City, Utah, carrying all their possessions in two-wheeledhandcarts. |
| 10 july | Nikola Tesla was born. He was an Serbian American engineer and inventor. His contribution to the electronics is huge. He played a major role in design of alternating current flow. The standard unit of flux is given name of Tesla to honour the great scientist. |
| 06 november | Scenes of Clerical Life, the first work by English authorGeorge Eliot was submitted for publication. |
| 03 June | Cullen Whipple patented the screw machine. |
| 16 July | The remarriage of Hindu widows gained legal recognition. |
| 08 October | The Second Opium War began between the British and China. |
| 04 November | James Buchanan became the 15th President of the United States. |
| 07 December | For the first time in the country \ Hindu widow ' was married. |
| 08 January | Dr. John Veitch discovered \ borax hydrated sodium borate). |
| 07 February | The Parliament of Tasmania arranged for the first time in the world a confidential ballot. |
| 03 April | About 4,000 people died in a BAM blast in a church in the Rhodes Islands of Greece. |
| 08 January | A large amount of Borox deposits were discovered in California by John Vecht. |
| 01 February | Auburn University was first hired as East Alabama Men's College. |
| 05 March | Covent Garden Theater in London was destroyed by fire. |
| 07 April | Nelson College was founded in New Zealand. |
| 27 May | Doctor William Palmer Rowley Poisoner) was convicted of poisoning in Stafford, England. |
| 17 June | The Republican Party held its first national convention in Philadelphia. |
| 31 July | New Zealand, founded as a city. |
| 30 August | Battle of Osawatomy: ProSlavari forces defeated the Antislavery Force in Bleeding Kansas. |
| 24 October | Southern Australia recognized the constitution. |
| 16 November | The Amsterdam Post Office was established in Neuvezies Vaurbergwal. |
| 09 December | Busher surrendered to the British Army. |
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 05 September | Thomas E. Watson / Lawyer / United States of America |
| 08 March | Colin Campbell Cooper / Painter / United States of America |
| 09 March | Tom Roberts / Painter / United Kingdom |
| 10 July | Nikola Tesla / Engineer / United States of America |
| 11 April | Arthur Shrewsbury / Cricketer / United Kingdom |
| 15 February | Emil Kraepelin / Academic / Germany |
| 16 February | Ossian Everett Mills / Academic / United States of America |
| 18 December | J. J. Thomson / Academic / United Kingdom |
| 18 January | Daniel Hale Williams / Surgeon / United States of America |
| 20 March | Frederick Winslow Taylor / Engineer / United States of America |
| 20 August | Jakub Bart-Ćišinski / Poet / Germany |
| 20 March | John Lavery / Painter / Ireland |
| 22 July | Octave Hamelin / Philosopher / France |
| 22 June | H. Rider Haggard / Novelist / United Kingdom |
| 24 April | Philippe Pétain / Politician / France |
| 25 February | Karl Gotthard Lamprecht / Academic / Germany |
| 25 October | Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger / Geologist / Croatia |
| 28 September | Kate Douglas Wiggin / Author / United States of America |
| 29 October | Jacques Curie / Academic / France |
| 29 December | Thomas Joannes Stieltjes / Academic / France |