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* 1856 – Diamond Jim Brady, American financier ( d. 1917 )
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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.
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 – Battle of Rivas: Juan Santamaria burns down the hostel where William Walker's filibusters are holed up.
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 and Diamond
It also contains the Lahore Diamond ( 22. 48 carats ) from the Treasury of Lahore given to Queen Victoria by the East India Company in 1851 and a 17-carat ( 3. 4 g ) diamond given to Queen Victoria by the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire in 1856.
The IHC units had flat front fenders instead of fenders with compound curves ; used the International Red Diamond 450 engines instead of the Hercules 160AX engines used by the other manufacturers ; used IHC Model 1856 4-speed transmissions instead of the Spicer 4-speed transmissions used by the other manufacturers ; had IHC Model FOK-1370 front drive axles instead of the Timken front axles used by their competitors ; used IHC Model RHT-1590 axles in the read instead of the Timken axles used by their competitors ; and were constructed with fully welded armor with rounded rear corners instead of the bolted armor with square corners used by the other three manufacturers.
Beacon fires were also lit to celebrate national occasions including the end of the Crimean War ( 1856 ), the marriage of the Prince and Princess of Wales ( 1863 ), the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria ( 1887 ) and Diamond Jubilee ( 1897 ) the coronation of George V ( 1911 ) and the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II ( 1953 ).
1856 and Jim
She lived in Wolverhampton with her only niece, Jim's daughter Emily Griffiths Gibbs ( 1856 – 1920 ) née Cullwick ; then she lived for some time in Bearley near Stratford-on-Avon with Emily's father-in-law, Charles Gibbs and the elderly mother of Charles, Hannah Bonehill Gibbs and her two bachelor sons ; then she moved to a cottage between Shifnal and Wellington, close to her brother Jim.
1856 and Brady
In 1856 Brady created the first modern advertisement when he placed an ad in the New York Herald paper offering to produce " photographs, ambrotypes and daguerreotypes.
In 1856 Mathew Brady created the first modern advertisement when he placed an ad in the New York Herald paper offering to produce " photographs, ambrotypes and daguerreotypes.
1856 and American
When the presidential election of 1856 approached, Johnson and supporters harbored a vague hope for the presidency, and he gave a speech to the Tennessee Democratic delegates reiterating his views ; some county conventions designated him a favorite son and the Nashville Union and American proposed his nomination.
Other claimants included the United States, whose American Guano Mining Company claimed it under the Guano Islands Act of 1856 ; Mexico also claimed Clipperton due to activities undertaken there as early as 1848 – 1849.
Archtop guitars are steel-string instruments in which the top ( and often the back ) of the instrument are carved from a solid billet in a curved rather than a flat shape ; this violin-like construction is usually credited to the American Orville Gibson ( 1856 – 1918 ).
1856: war with Grebo and Kru peoples, leading to the last American African colony, Republic of Maryland, joining Liberia.
Lyman Frank Baum ( May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919 ) was an American author of children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
* 1856 – American Old West: On the Sonoita River in present-day southern Arizona, the United States Army establishes Fort Buchanan in order to help control new land acquired in the Gadsden Purchase.
Rather than undergo surgery ( a risky procedure in 1856 ), the Gosses decided to submit to the ointments of an American doctor, Jesse Weldon Fell, who if not a charlatan, was certainly on the fringe of contemporary medical practice.
In 1856, Anthony further attempted to unify the African-American and women's rights movements when, recruited by abolitionist Abby Kelley Foster, she became an agent for William Lloyd Garrison's American Anti-Slavery Society of New York.
* 1856 – Louis Sullivan, American architect, designed the Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building ( d. 1924 )
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