What Happened In July 1856 In History

Historical Events for July, 1856

• 17th » The Great Train Wreck of 1856 in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, kills over 60 people.
• 31st » Christchurch, New Zealand is chartered as a city.

Famous Birthdays on July in 1856

• 10th » Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American physicist and engineer (d. 1943)
• 23rd » Arthur Bird, American-German composer (d. 1923)
• 23rd » Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian lawyer and journalist (d. 1920)
• 24th » Émile Picard, French mathematician and academic (d. 1941)
• 26th » George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright and critic, Nobel Prize in Literature or Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1950)

Famous Deaths for July 1856

• 9th » Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist and academic (b. 1776)
• 9th » James Strang, American religious leader and politician (b. 1813)
• 14th » Edward Vernon Utterson, English lawyer and historian (b. 1775)
• 29th » Robert Schumann, German composer and critic (b. 1810)

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