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  • London, England, United Kingdom
    1856
    The palace of Westminster England

    National Portrait Gallery

    London, England, United Kingdom
    1856

    The Prince's Chamber is a small anteroom between the Royal Gallery and the Lords Chamber, named after the room adjoining the Parliament Chamber in the Old Palace of Westminster. Thanks to its location, it is a place where members of the Lords meet to discuss business of the House. Several doors lead out of the room, to the division lobbies of the House of Lords and to a number of important offices. The theme of the Prince's Chamber is Tudor history, and 28 oil portraits painted on panels around the room depict members of the Tudor dynasty. They are the work of Richard Burchett and his pupils, and their creation entailed extensive research, which contributed to the founding of the National Portrait Gallery in 1856. 12 bronze bas-reliefs are set into the wall below the portraits, executed by William Theed in 1855–1857.




  • Kansas and Missouri, U.S.
    1856
    Abraham Lincoln

    Violent political confrontations in Kansas continued

    Kansas and Missouri, U.S.
    1856

    Violent political confrontations in Kansas continued, and opposition to the Kansas–Nebraska Act remained strong throughout the North.




  • Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S.
    1856
    Sojourner Truth

    Truth bought a neighboring lot in Northampton

    Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S.
    1856

    In 1856, Truth bought a neighboring lot in Northampton, but she did not keep the new property for long.




  • Melbourne, Australia
    Monday Apr 21, 1856
    Labor day

    The first march for an eight-hour day by the labor movement occurred

    Melbourne, Australia
    Monday Apr 21, 1856

    Labor Day in Australia is a public holiday on dates which vary between states and territories. It is the first Monday in October in the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales and South Australia. In Victoria and Tasmania, it is the second Monday in March (though the latter calls it Eight Hours Day). In Western Australia, Labor Day is the first Monday in March. In Queensland and the Northern Territory, Labor Day occurs on the first Monday in May (though the latter calls it May Day). It is on the fourth Monday of March in the territory of Christmas Island. The first march for an eight-hour day by the labor movement occurred in Melbourne on 21 April 1856.




  • Bloomington, Illinois, U.S.
    Friday May 30, 1856
    Abraham Lincoln

    Bloomington Convention

    Bloomington, Illinois, U.S.
    Friday May 30, 1856

    As the 1856 elections approached, Lincoln joined the Republicans and attended the Bloomington Convention, which formally established the Illinois Republican Party. The convention platform endorsed Congress's right to regulate slavery in the territories and backed the admission of Kansas as a free state.




  • Bloomington, Illinois, U.S.
    Friday May 30, 1856
    Abraham Lincoln

    Lincoln's Lost Speech

    Bloomington, Illinois, U.S.
    Friday May 30, 1856

    Lincoln gave the final speech of the convention supporting the party platform and called for the preservation of the Union.




  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
    Wednesday Jun 18, 1856
    Abraham Lincoln

    June 1856 Republican National Convention

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
    Wednesday Jun 18, 1856

    At the June 1856 Republican National Convention, though Lincoln received support to run as vice president, John C. Frémont and William Dayton comprised the ticket, which Lincoln supported throughout Illinois. The Democrats nominated former Secretary of State James Buchanan and the Know-Nothings nominated former Whig President Millard Fillmore.


  • Saint Petersburg, Russia
    1856
    Dmitri Mendeleev

    Mendeleev's master's degree

    Saint Petersburg, Russia
    1856

    After the recovery from tuberculosis, Mendeleev returned to Saint Petersburg to continue his education where he earned his master's degree in 1856 and began conducting his researches in organic chemistry.


  • Smiljan, Austrian Empire (Present day Smiljan, Croatia)
    Friday Jul 11, 1856
    Nikola Tesla

    Birth

    Smiljan, Austrian Empire (Present day Smiljan, Croatia)
    Friday Jul 11, 1856

    Nikola Tesla was born an ethnic Serb in the village of Smiljan, wihin the Military Frontier, in the Austrian Empire (present day Croatia), on 10 July [O.S. 28 June] 1856.


  • U.S.
    1856
    Elizabeth Blackwell

    Kitty Barry

    U.S.
    1856

    In 1856, when Blackwell was establishing the New York Infirmary, she adopted Katherine "Kitty" Barry (1848–1936), an Irish orphan from the House of Refuge on Randall's Island. Diary entries at the time show that she adopted Barry half out of loneliness and a feeling of obligation, and half out of a utilitarian need for domestic help.


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