The family factory produced armaments for the Crimean War ( 1853 – 1856 ); but, had difficulty switching back to regular domestic production when the fighting ended and they filed for bankruptcy.

* 1856 – William Martin Conway, English art critic and mountaineer ( d. 1937 )

* 1776 – Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist ( d. 1856 )

* 1856 – George Coulthard, Australian footballer and cricketer ( d. 1883 )

* 1856 – Alfred Deakin, Australian politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia ( d. 1919 )

* 1856 – Ivan Franko, Ukrainian writer ( d. 1916 )

* 1856 – Aparicio Saravia, Uruguayan politician and military leader ( d. 1904 )

* 1856 – Diamond Jim Brady, American financier ( d. 1917 )

* 1816 – Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, French chemist ( d. 1856 )

** Various articles on Alcidamas ( 1856 – 1919, with links to further online material )

Andrew Johnson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, to Jacob Johnson ( 1778 – 1812 ) and Mary (" Polly ") McDonough ( 1783 – 1856 ), a seamstress and the daughter of Andrew McDonough.

* 1856 – Carle David Tolmé Runge, German physicist ( d. 1927 )

* 1910 – Mikhail Vrubel, Russian painter ( b. 1856 )

* 1925 – John Singer Sargent, American artist ( b. 1856 )

* John Cramp, 1851 – 1853 ( and 1856 – 1869 )

* Edmund Crawley, 1853 – 1856

* John Cramp, 1856 – 1869

* 1856 – William Willett, English builder and daylight saving time advocate ( d. 1915 )

* 1856 – The Theta Chi fraternity is founded at Norwich University.

He married firstly at the Dolmabahçe Palace in Constantinople in 1856 to Georgian HH Dürrünev Kadın Efendi ( Batumi, 15 March 1835 – Constantinople, Üsküdar, Çamlıca Palace, 3 December 1892 ), and had three children.

He married thirdly in 1872 to Circassian HH Gevherin Nedaxe Kadın Efendi ( Caucasus, 8 July 1856 – Ortaköy Palace, Ortaköy, Constantinople, 20 September 1894 ), and had one child.

* 1856 – Henri Philippe Pétain, French soldier and statesman ( d. 1951 )

* 1856 – First Battle of Seattle.

In 1856, she traveled to Battle Creek, Michigan, to speak to a group called the Friends of Human Progress.

During 1856 in Kansas, Brown commanded forces at the Battle of Black Jack and the Battle of Osawatomie.

Three miles east of Baldwin was the town site of Black Jack where the Battle of Black Jack took place on June 2, 1856.

The second and main Battle of Osawatomie took place on August 30, 1856.

The larger, and main conflict known as the Battle of Osawatomie began August 30, 1856 as John Brown was camped just north Osawatomie and looking east for pro-slavery forces.

The Battle of Four Lakes was the final battle in a two-phase expedition against a confederation of the Coeur d ' Alene, Spokane, Palouse and Northern Paiute tribes from the states of Washington and Idaho ( the " Confederated Tribes "), which began in August 1856.

The Battle of the Alma ( 20 September 1854 ), which is usually considered the first battle of the Crimean War ( 1853 – 1856 ), took place just south of the River Alma in the Crimea.

Plan of the Battle of Alma by George Dodd ( artist ) | George Dodd, 1856

This culminated in 1856 with the Battle of Ndondakusuka, which left Mbuyazi dead.

Si ’ ahl kept his people out of the Battle of Seattle ( 1856 ).

* Battle of Seattle ( 1856 )

This friendly relationship paid off during the Battle of Seattle ( 1856 ) when both Sealth and Patkanim kept their fighters out of the battle.

Walker sent Colonel Schlessinger to invade Costa Rica in a preemptive action, but his forces were defeated at the Battle of Santa Rosa in March 1856.

In April 1856, Costa Rican troops penetrated into Nicaraguan territory and inflicted a defeat on Walker's men at the Second Battle of Rivas, in which Juan Santamaría, later to be recognized as one of Costa Rica's national heroes, played a key role.

The years 1856 – 1858 were particularly vicious and bloody on the Texas frontier, as settlers continued to expand their settlements into the Comanche homeland, the Comancheria, and 1858 was marked by the first Texan incursion into the heart of the Comancheria, the so-called Antelope Hills Expedition, marked by the Battle of Little Robe Creek.

Although limited in its magnitude, territorial impact and losses in terms of lives, the Puget Sound War is often remembered in connection with the 1856 Battle of Seattle and the execution of a central figure of the war, Nisqually Chief Leschi.

All of this occurred against a background of sometimes rocky relations with the local Native American population, including a nominally pitched battle, the Battle of Seattle, January 25, 1856.

On June 2, 1856, John Brown took future Confederate Colonel Henry Clay Pate and 22 other pro-slavery soldiers prisoner at the Battle of Black Jack.

In 1856 he was wounded at the Battle of Ocotlán, fighting with rebels against President Ignacio Comonfort.

: A Company-Alma-commemorating the Battle of Alma, during the Crimean War 1853 – 1856

* Santa Rosa National Park, site of the 1856 Battle of Santa Rosa

* Slough Creek in Kansas, the site of the 1856 Battle of Slough Creek