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 – Battle of Rivas: Juan Santamaria burns down the hostel where William Walker's filibusters are holed up.

* 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 – Scenes of Clerical Life, the first work of fiction by the author later known as George Eliot, is submitted for publication.

Bishop George Errington founded St Boniface's Catholic College, Plymouth in 1856.

* Mary Ellen, ( 1856 – 1908 ) who married the mathematician and author Charles Howard Hinton and had four children: George ( 1882 – 1943 ), Eric (* 1884 ), William ( 1886 – 1909 ) and Sebastian ( 1887 – 1923 ) inventor of the Jungle gym.

George Smith Patton Jr. was born in San Gabriel, California in 1885, to George Smith Patton Sr. ( 1856 – 1927 ) and his wife Ruth Wilson ( 1861 – 1928 ), daughter of Benjamin Davis Wilson.

The second George Smith Patton ( born George William Patton in 1856, changing his name to honor his late father in 1868 ) was one of four children.

* George Finlay, ( 1856 ), History of the Byzantine Empire from DCCXVI to MLVII, 2nd Edition, Published by W. Blackwood.

* George Stevens – 5 wins ( Freetrader ( 1856 ), Emblem ( 1863 ), Emblematic ( 1864 ), The Colonel ( 1869, 1870 ))

After completing Colenso's project, Bleek travelled to Cape Town in 1856 to become Sir George Grey's official interpreter as well as to catalogue his private library.

Erath County was formed from Bosque and Coryell counties in 1856 and named for George Bernard Erath, one of the original surveyors of the area.

Conflict between the miners and Native Americans led to war in 1853, which continued intermittently until the final defeat of the last band under chiefs John and George by a combined force of regular army and civilians May 29, 1856 at Big Bend on the Illinois River.

In 1931, a monument was established at the Union County border with Union Parish, Louisiana, through the private efforts of former Arkansas Governor George Washington Donaghey ( 1856 – 1937 ), who was born in Union Parish and grew up in the border area before he moved as a teenager to Conway, Arkansas.

In 1931, a monument was established at the Union Parish border with Union County, Arkansas, through the private efforts of former Arkansas Governor George Washington Donaghey ( 1856 – 1937 ), who was born in Union Parish and grew up in the border area before he moved as a teenager to Conway, Arkansas.

Hubert Austin ( 1868 ), George Frederick Bodley ( 1845 – 56 ), Charles Buckeridge ( 1856 – 57 ), Somers Clarke ( 1865 ), William Henry Crossland (?

), C. Hodgson Fowler ( 1856 – 60 ), Thomas Gardner ( 1856 – 61 ), Thomas Graham Jackson ( 1858 – 61 ), John T. Micklethwaite ( 1862 – 69 ), Benjamin Mountfort ( 1841 – 46 ), John Norton ( 1870 – 78 ), George Gilbert Scott, Jr. ( 1856 – 63 ), John Oldrid Scott ( 1858 – 78 ), J. J. Stevenson ( 1858 – 60 ), George Henry Stokes ( 1843 – 47 ), George Edmund Street ( 1844 – 49 ), William White ( 1845 – 47 ).

* Shaw Festival Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada theatre that specializes in plays by Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries and plays about his era ( 1856 – 1950 )

* Bernard Grosbellet, Le Moniteur du Sénégal et dépendances comme sources de l ' histoire du Sénégal pendant le premier gouvernement de Faidherbe ( 1856 – 1861 ), Dakar, Université de Dakar, 1967, 113 pages ( Diplôme d ' Etudes Supérieures )

* Bernard O ' Reilly ( bishop of Hartford ) ( 1803 – 1856 ), Roman Catholic bishop

Reverend Bernard J. McQuaid served as the first college president ( 1856 – 1857, 1859 – 1868 ) and directed a staff of four diocesan clergy including Reverend Alfred Young, vice-president ; Reverend Daniel Fisher ( the second college president, 1857 – 1859 ) and five lay instructors.

* McQuaid Hall – Built around 1900, it was named for Bishop Bernard J. McQuaid, Seton Hall ’ s first President from 1856 – 1857 and 1859 – 1867.

The town is home to the Shaw Festival, a series of theatrical productions featuring the works of George Bernard Shaw, his contemporaries, or plays about his era ( 1856 – 1950 ), running from April to November.

Wilde's contemporary George Bernard Shaw ( 1856 – 1950 ) was a very different kind of writer.

* George Bernard Shaw ( 1856 – 1950 ), an Irish playwright

* George Bernard Shaw ( 1856 – 1950 ), Irish playwright

* Jeremiah Clemens includes Glanton as a character in his novel Bernard Lile ( 1856 ), one of the earliest fictional works concerning the Texas Revolution.

* James Bernard, 2nd Earl of Bandon ( 1785 – 1856 ), elected a representative peer in 1835

* 2 November-George Bernard Shaw, playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature ( 1925 ) ( born 1856 ).

* The playwright George Bernard Shaw ( 1856 – 1950 ) was born on Synge Street.

* Bernard O ' Reilly ( 1803 – 1856 ), Bishop of Hartford

Bernard Shandon Rodey ( March 1, 1856 – March 10, 1927 ), Irish-American politician who was a Delegate from the New Mexico Territory and later a federal judge in Puerto Rico.

The music critic and playwright George Bernard Shaw, who was born in 1856 and therefore could not have heard Mario in his prime, said his singing featured a marked vibrato.

Newton also widened the mandate of the Shaw Festival ( the performance of plays written and set in Bernard Shaw's lifetime, 1856 – 1950 ) by programming the works of lesser known playwrights such as Granville Barker, whose entire oeuvre was performed at the Shaw Festival in a series of highly praised productions directed by Neil Munro.