Il trovatore was first performed in the US on 2 May 1855 at the recently-opened Academy of Music in New York while its UK premiere took place on 10 May 1855 at Covent Garden in London.

In the US, the opera was first seen on 19 February 1855 at New York's Academy of Music.

The Greenwich Theatre was originally the ' Rose and Crown Music Hall ' ( 1855 ), and later became ' Crowder's Music Hall and Temple of Varieties '.

Ross submitted the tune to music collector George Petrie, and it was then published by the Society for the Preservation and Publication of the Melodies of Ireland in the 1855 book The Ancient Music of Ireland, which Petrie edited.

* Director of Music Karl Klauser, music teacher and composer, taught at the school from 1855 to 1895

* date unknown – Marie Antoinette Petersén, singer and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music ( d. 1855 )

Cornelius Gurlitt's abilities as a musician were quickly recognized in Rome, and the papal Accademia di Santa Cecilia nominated him an honorary member, graduating as a Professor of Music in 1855.

" Rosalie, the Prairie Flower " ( 1855 ) Lyrics: Fanny Crosby Music: Wurzel ( George F. Root )

Unitarian minister John Sullivan Dwight, editor of Dwight's Journal of Music, created a singing edition based on Cappeau's French text in 1855.

He worked with George Petrie on the Ancient Music of Ireland ( 1855 ).

* The Petrie Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland, M. H. Gill ( Dublin 1855 ), reprinted ( Farnborough 1967 ), ( Heppenheim 1969 )

William Chappell transcribed the lyrics in his two-volume work The Ballad Literature and Popular Music of the Olden Time ( 1855 ).

The building was originally a music hall created in 1855 as part of the neighbouring Rose and Crown public house, but the Rose and Crown Music Hall was reconstructed in 1871 and renamed Crowder's Music Hall.

James Henthorn Todd, in his 1855 publication of the Leabhar Imuinn ( The Book of Hymns of the Ancient Church of Ireland ), suggested that it was Finnian of Moville, and that view has gained traction among modern scholars.

His fear lest Russia should demand a stretch of coast along the Varanger Fjord induced him to remain neutral during the Crimean War, and, subsequently, to conclude an alliance with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Second French Empire ( 25 November 1855 ) for preserving the territorial integrity of Sweden-Norway.

Edmund Bernard FitzAlan-Howard, 1st Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent KG, PC ( 1 June 1855 – 18 May 1947 ), known as Lord Edmund Talbot between 1876 and 1921, was a British Conservative politician and the last Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

* A Visitation of the Seats and Arms of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol II Sir Bernard Burke ( 1855 ) p103.

Timothy Michael Healy, KC ( 17 May 1855 – 26 March 1931 ), also known as Tim Healy, was an Irish nationalist politician, journalist, author, barrister and one of the most controversial Irish Members of Parliament ( MPs ) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Thereafter, Newman relied on Badeley for legal advice though in 1855 Hope-Scott conducted the negotiations which ended in Newman's accepting the rectorship of the Catholic University of Ireland.

* Kieran Byrne, ' Mechanics's Institutes in Ireland before 1855 ' ( thesis, University College Cork, )

Lurgan town commissioners were first elected in 1855, and they were replaced by Lurgan Urban District Council following the Local Government ( Ireland ) Act 1898.

Carlisle served under Lord Melbourne as Chief Secretary for Ireland between 1835 and 1841, under Lord John Russell as First Commissioner of Woods and Forests from 1846 to 1850 and as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1850 to 1852 and under Lord Palmerston as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1855 to 1858 and again from 1859 to 1864.

He was promoted to full general in June 1854 and from 1855 to 1860 he was Commander-in-Chief, Ireland.

He died at his residence Thornfleld, in county Limerick, Ireland on Sunday 12 August 1855 and is buried in Castleconnell.

Foy's parents, Richard and Mary Fitzgerald, emigrated to the United States from Ireland in 1855 and lived first in New York's Bowery and then in Greenwich Village, where Eddie was born.

* O ' Curry, Eugene ( 1861 ) Lectures on the Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History, delivered at the Catholic University of Ireland, during the sessions of 1855 and 1856.

By 1855, when his father died, Guinness had become the richest man in Ireland, having built up a huge export trade and by continually enlarging his brewery.

From 1855 to 1869, Manning was employed by the Marquis of Downshire, while he supervised the construction of the Dundrum Bay Harbor in Ireland and designed a water supply system for Belfast.

* 1855 in the United Kingdom, 1855 in Ireland, 1855 in Wales

Burke's Visitation of Seats ( 1855 ) gives the following description of Dromoland: " It is built entirely of dark blue limestone, and in fine chiseled workmanship ; the ornamental grounds and woods extend over more than 1, 500 of land … from some of the eminences there are views of the Shannon and Fergus, which, at this part of the country, resembles a large inland lake with island, making Dromoland one of the most beautiful and desirable residences in Ireland.

In 1854 he was knighted and in 1855 he became Keeper of the State Papers in Ireland.

In 1866 and 1883 he published editions of his father's Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Scotland and Ireland, extinct, dormant and in abeyance ( earlier editions, 1831, 1840, 1846 ); and in 1855 and 1876 editions of his Royal Families of England, Scotland and Wales ( 1st edition, 1847 – 1851 ) Integral to the study of armorists was the publication in 1878 ( enlarged edition in 1883 ) of his Encyclopaedia of Heraldry, or General Armoury of England, Scotland and Ireland was published in 1848.

The basic significance of this invention helped them to follow it rapidly in 1855 by the development of a unique precision gear cutting and dividing engine.

This village was deserted in 1855 when the tenants were evicted by the local landlord so the land could be used for cattle grazing, the tenants were forced to rent holdings in Currane, Dooega and Slievemore.

In 1855 ferro-cement boat construction was patented by the French.

Included among the latter are the area's five premier cru ( first growth ) red wines ( four from Médoc and one, Château Haut-Brion, from Graves ), established by the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855:

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.

It is primarily based on the Civil code of 1855, derived from Spanish law and subsequent codes influenced by European law of the last half of the 19th Century.

The idea that cells can be generated de novo, by the " cytoblast " or otherwise, contradicted work by Robert Remak ( 1852 ) and Rudolf Virchow ( 1855 ) who decisively propagated the new paradigm that cells are generated solely by cells (" Omnis cellula e cellula ").

Similar treaties were subsequently negotiated by the United Kingdom ( Anglo-Japanese Friendship Treaty, October 1854 ), the Russians ( Treaty of Shimoda, 7 February 1855 ), and the French ( Treaty of Amity and Commerce between France and Japan, 9 October 1858 ).

The practice of rifling — casting spiraling lines inside the cannon's barrel — was applied to artillery more frequently by 1855, as it gave cannon projectiles gyroscopic stability, which improved their accuracy.

Ten years later, limited liability, the key provision of modern corporate law, passed into English law: in response to increasing pressure from newly emerging capital interests, Parliament passed the Limited Liability Act 1855, which established the principle that any corporation could enjoy limited legal liability on both contract and tort claims simply by registering as a " limited " company with the appropriate government agency.

The bacterium had been originally isolated 45 years earlier ( 1855 ) by Italian anatomist Filippo Pacini, but its exact nature and his results were not widely known.

Inspired by Babbage's difference engine plans, Per Georg Scheutz built several difference engines from 1855 onwards, one of which was sold to the British government in 1859.

It appeared as if the Kansas Territorial legislature to be elected in March 1855 would be controlled by free-soilers and ban slavery.

** Song of Myself by Walt Whitman ( 1855 )

** The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ( 1855 )

** La Fin de Satan by Victor Hugo ( written between 1855 and 1860, published in 1886 )

* 1855 – Texas is linked by telegraph to the rest of the United States, with the completion of a connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas.

The 1845 Narrative, which was his biggest seller, was followed by My Bondage and My Freedom in 1855.

* 2011 – For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an American Indian tribe, were able to hunt and harvest a bison just outside Yellowstone National Park, restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855.

* 1855 – Kassa Hailu is crowned Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia, by Abuna Salama III in a ceremony at the church of Derasge Maryam

Fick's laws of diffusion describe diffusion and can be used to solve for the diffusion coefficient, D. They were derived by Adolf Fick in the year 1855.

As South Australia ( 1836 ), Tasmania ( January 1855 ) and Victoria ( May 1855 ) obtained responsible government, their Lieutenant-Governors were replaced by Governors.