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15 March – the Boat Race 1856, first of the annual series rowed between Cambridge and Oxford University Boat Clubs on the River Thames in London; Cambridge wins. 31 March – the Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Crimean War .
1856 5 March: A fire destroys the Covent Garden Theatre. [15] 15 March: The Boat Race 1856 is the first of the annual series rowed between Cambridge and Oxford University Boat Clubs on the Thames in London. 22 August: The Eastern Counties Railway opens its branch to Loughton; from 1947 this will be the oldest section of the London Underground.
This is a timeline of British history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of England, History of Wales, History of Scotland, History of Ireland, Formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and History of the United Kingdom
This is a complete list of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the year 1856. Note that the first parliament of the United Kingdom was held in 1801; parliaments between 1707 and 1800 were either parliaments of Great Britain or of Ireland ).
1856 was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1856th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 856th year of the 2nd millennium, the 56th year of the 19th century, and the 7th year of the 1850s decade. As of the start of 1856, the ...
March – Charles Dickens buys Gads Hill Place in Kent (England) from fellow novelist Eliza Lynn. March 1 – Lewis Carroll chooses his pseudonym; on May 1 he takes up photography as a hobby. March 5 – The second Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, is destroyed by fire, as the first was in 1808.
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31 July – Limited Liability Act protects investors in the event of corporate collapse. [5] 3 September – last Bartholomew Fair in London. [6] 9 September – Siege of Sevastopol (1854–55) (Crimean War): Sevastopol falls to the British and their allies. 17 October – Henry Bessemer files his patent for the Bessemer process for the ...