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The 13th Boat Race took place on the River Thames on 15 March 1856. Typically held annually, the event is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The race, the second to be held on the ebb tide, was won by Cambridge who beat Oxford by half a length.
The Treaty of Paris was signed on 30 March 1856 at the Congress of Paris with Russia on one side of the negotiating table and France, Britain, the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Sardinia on the other side. The treaty came about to resolve the Crimean War, which had begun on 23 October 1853, when the Ottoman Empire formally declared war on ...
HMS Sparrowhawk was a Vigilant -class second-class despatch/gunvessel launched on 9 February 1856 at Limehouse, England and served at various stations in the Far East. By the spring of 1865, her rig was a converted to that of a three-masted barque. She was sold in 1872, converted to a sailing barque in mercantile service, and was later a coal ...
15 май – Лиман Франк Баум, американски детски писател. 18 май – Спас Вацов, български метеоролог. 25 май – Луи Франше д'Еспере, френски маршал. 12 юни – Спиро Гулабчев, български общественик. 14 ...
שנת 1856 לפי הלוח היוליאני. במקומות בהם היה נהוג אז הלוח היוליאני, שנת 1856 התחילה ביום ו' בשבט ה'תרט"ז (לעומת זאת, אותה שנה לפי הלוח הגרגוריאני החלה 12 ימים מוקדם יותר, ב- כ"ג בטבת ). אורכה של שנה זו ...
HMS. Alert. (1856) HMS Alert was a 17-gun wooden screw sloop of the Cruizer class of the Royal Navy, launched in 1856 and broken up in 1894. She was the eleventh ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name (or a variant of it), and was noted for her Arctic exploration work; in 1876 she reached a record latitude of 82° North.
James Orr. Democratic. The 1856–57 United States House of Representatives elections were held on various dates in various states between August 4, 1856, and November 4, 1857. Each state set its own date for its elections to the House of Representatives. 236 representatives were elected in 31 states and the pending new state of Minnesota ...
