The use of the term was first attributed to Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard ( 1813 – 1855 ).

* 1799 – Henri Druey, Swiss Federal Councilor ( d. 1855 )

* 1777 – Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician ( d. 1855 )

* 1797 – Charles Robert Malden, English naval officer ( d. 1855 )

After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce ( 1855 – 1916 ), botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey ( 1858 – 1954 ), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), historian A. Whitney Griswold ( 1906 – 1963 ), environmentalist Aldo Leopold ( 1887 – 1948 ), Ralph Borsodi ( 1886 – 1977 ), and present-day authors Wendell Berry ( b. 1934 ), Gene Logsdon ( b. 1932 ), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson ( b. 1949 ).

* 1855 – The first ascent of Monte Rosa, the second highest summit in the Alps.

* 1855 – Joe Hunter, English cricketer ( d. 1891 )

* 1914 – Hubert Bland, English socialist, co-founder of the Fabian Society ( b. 1855 )

Four more children followed: Charlotte, ( 1816 – 1855 ), Patrick Branwell ( 1817 – 1848 ), Emily, ( 1818 – 1848 ) and Anne ( 1820 – 1849 ).

* 1855 – John Hodges, Australian cricketer ( d. 1933 )

* 1855 – Visit of Napoleon III to Guildhall, London

* 1816 – Charlotte Brontë, English author ( d. 1855 )

The Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister 1855 – 58, 1859 – 65

* Fernand Cabrol ( 1855 – 1937 )

The English Biblical scholar Robert Henry Charles ( 1855 – 1931 ) reasoned on internal textual grounds that the book was edited by someone who spoke no Hebrew and who wished to promote a different theology from John's.

Charles Robert Malden ( 9 August 1797 – 23 May 1855 ), was a nineteenth century British naval officer, surveyor and educator.

* 1855 – Michigan State University is founded as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan.

In 1850, the Kalamazoo Literary Institute name was restored and in 1855 the school finally received an educational charter from the State of Michigan, establishing explicit recognition of the school as a college.

In 1855, the non-Mormon resistance succeeded in getting the Michigan Legislature to reorganize the County of Emmet with the islands, including Beaver Island and North and South Manitou Island, set off into the separate Manitou County, which effectively eliminated Mormons from Emmet County government.

In 1855 a schooner owned by George W. Tifft of Cleveland was caught in a gale on Lake Michigan and driven before the wind.

The township was organized in 1855 and was named for Michigan Lt.

When the township was organized in 1855, it was named for Dexter Mussey, a member of the Michigan House of Representatives from Macomb County and later Speaker of the House.

Michigan State University was founded in 1855 and established in what is now East Lansing in 1857.

The Michigan Constitution of 1850 called for the creation of an " agricultural school ", though it was not until February 12, 1855, that Michigan Governor Kinsley S. Bingham signed a bill establishing the United States ' first agriculture college, the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan.

Prior to enactment of the Morrill Act in 1862, Michigan State University was chartered under Michigan state law as a state land-grant institution on February 12, 1855, as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, receiving an appropriation of of state-owned land.

The first iteration of the U. S. Soo Locks was completed in May 1855, and operated by the State of Michigan until transferred to the U. S. Army in 1881.

Strang was elected to the Michigan House of Representatives in 1853, and again in 1855.

In 1855 Morgan and other Rochester businessmen invested in the expanding metals industry of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

From March 28, 1846 through 1855, he was president of Michigan Central Railroad, and he was a director and president of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, he helped with the growth of the American Middle West.

Pinkerton began this work for the South Michigan Line in 1854, and on 1 February 1855, he created the North West Police Agency with $ 10, 000 given for the cause by six anxious Midwestern railroads.

Thomas Fitzgerald ( April 10, 1796March 25, 1855 ) was an American politician who served as a judge and state legislator in both Indiana and Michigan, and as a United States Senator from Michigan.

Andrew Parsons ( July 22, 1817 – June 6, 1855 ) was a politician from the U. S. state of Michigan.

In 1855, Parsons was elected to the Michigan House of Representatives from Shiawassee County, first district.

He served in the Michigan Senate from 1855 to 1856.

* 1855 – The Pennsylvania State University is founded in State College, Pennsylvania ( as the Farmers ' High School of Pennsylvania )

* 1855 – Newfoundland ( suspended from 1934 to 1949 ), the State of New South Wales, and the State of Victoria

In 1855 Northup appears, along with family members, in the New York State Census listing for Glens Falls ( part of Queensbury ).

* James M. Cook, New York State Comptroller 1854 – 1855

He was among the few such who did not join the Republican Party and, in 1855, was the candidate of the Soft faction for New York State Attorney General.

In 1855, the Massachusetts State Legislature created a Registry of Deeds for the Northern District of Middlesex County in Lowell.

In 1855, he married Otelia Butler ( 1837 – 1911 ), the daughter of the late Dr. Robert Butler of Smithfield, who had been Virginia State Treasurer prior to his death in 1853.

* John Mercer Langston ( 1829 – 1899 ), abolitionist, activist, educator and politician-in 1855 first black person in Ohio elected to public office, first dean of Howard University law school, first president of Virginia State University, in 1888 first black person to be elected to the United States Congress from Virginia.

The county was organized in 1855 and named for U. S. Senator and U. S. Secretary of State Daniel Webster.

In the 1855 reorganization, four new townships were created by the State Legislature:

Anderson was born in Indiana and had come to McLean County about 1855 as State Missionary for the Christian Church.

In 1855, The Maine State Seminary in Lewiston, now Bates College, was incorporated.

In an 1855 Emmet County was reorganized and four new townships were created by the State.

The Nebraska State Legislature has credited Nebraska City as being the oldest incorporated city in the state, as it was the first approved by a special act of the Nebraska Territorial Legislature in 1855.

These include: Potter's Tavern, said to have been built in the 1750s, but restored to its appearance in 1776 when it was home to The Plain Dealer, considered New Jersey's first newspaper ; Brearley ( Masonic ) Lodge, founded by General James Giles in 1795, and still active ; the so-called " Nail House " ( c. 1815 ; second build c. 1855 ), administrative home of the Cumberland Nail & Iron Works that established Bridgeton's industrial prowess in the early nineteenth century ; the first Cumberland National Bank building ( 1816 ), only the second bank chartered in New Jersey ( now part of the Bridgeton Library ); and the David Sheppard House ( 1791 ), recently restored with assistance from the Garden State Historic Trust and home to the Cousteau Coastal Center of Rutgers University since 2008.

Many prominent graduates attended the school including President Millard Filmore, William Brookfield, the founder of the Bushwick GlassWorks and William E. Leffingwell ( 1855 – 1927 ), State Assemblyman and founder of the Glen Springs Sanitarium.

State College evolved from village to town to serve the needs of the fledgling Pennsylvania State College, founded as the Farmers ' High School of Pennsylvania in 1855.

In 1855, Parker County was created by the Texas State Legislature and named for pioneer and State Representative Isaac Parker.