The Colt Revolving Rifle Model 1855 was an early repeating rifle and the first one to be used by the U. S. Government, and saw some limited action during the American Civil War.

Colt purchased a large tract of land beside the Connecticut River, where he built his first factory in 1848, a larger factory called the Colt Armory in 1855, a manor that he called Armsmear in 1856, and employee tenement housing.

Colt Model 1855 Carbine produced in London

Colt purchased a large tract of land beside the Connecticut River, where he built his first factory in 1848, a larger factory called the Colt Armory in 1855, a manor that he called Armsmear in 1856, and employee tenemant housing.

The young explorer was mourned widely, and £ 2, 000 was raised after his death of which £ 500 went towards a granite memorial obelisk ( designed by Philip Hardwick and unveiled in 1855 ) in his memory on the Thames riverside in front of Greenwich Hospital ; a nearby Greenwich street, Bellot Street SE10, also carries his name.

In 1855 President Franklin Pierce appointed him colonel of the new 2nd U. S. Cavalry ( the unit that preceded the modern 5th U. S .), a new regiment, which he organized.

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 ").

An 1855 paper on the " introduction " of species, written by Alfred Russel Wallace, claimed that patterns in the geographical distribution of living and fossil species could be explained if every new species always came into existence near an already existing, closely related species.

In 1855, new conflict broke out between the parties.

In 1855 they took on a new partner, Alexander Majors, and founded the company of Russell, Majors & Waddell.

But he had misgivings about the new provisional government, headed by Dupont de l ' Eure ( 1767 – 1855 ), who, since the French Revolution in 1789, had been a longstanding politician, although often in the opposition.

* 1855: Joseph-Martin Cabirol patents a new model of standard diving dress, mainly issued from Siebe's designs.

The Tribune absorbed three other Chicago publications under the new editors: the Free West in 1855, the Democratic Press in 1858, and the Chicago Democrat in 1861, whose editor, John Wentworth, left his position to become Chicago Mayor.

Offenbach's first piece for the company's new home was Ba-ta-clan ( December 1855 ), a well-received piece of mock-oriental frivolity, to a libretto by Halévy.

When Florida was admitted as a state, Levy was elected by the new state legislature as one of Florida's first two U. S. Senators ; he served from 1845 to 1851, and again from 1855 to 1861.

In 1855 Semper became a professor of architecture at the new school and the success of many of his students who attained success and renown served to ensure his international fame.

Transport links expanded further with new railway lines to Croydon ( Wimbledon and Croydon Railway, opened in 1855 ) and Tooting ( Tooting, Merton and Wimbledon Railway, opened in 1868 ).

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

In a string of bad luck, this new courthouse burned in 1855 and was replaced by another courthouse, which burned in 1857.

B. Lenney came from Pennsylvania to the new town of Chenoa and in 1855 put up the frame building here which was called " The Farmer's Store.

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

On September 13, 1855, the fist child was born among the new homesteaders.

In 1855, the Steubenville and Indiana Railroad was built through the new town.

In 1855, a new site, closer to the iron works and out of the flood plain of Coal Creek, was established at the suggestion of Brigham Young ; present day Cedar City is located at this site.

He also founded and edited the monthly magazine Jeschurun ( 1855 – 70 ; new series, 1882 et seq ); most of the pages of the Jeschurun were filled by himself.

After realizing they were stranded, the Hartford passengers accepted an invitation to join the new town, but insisted that it be renamed Manhattan, which was done on June 29, 1855.

Scholars who hold that an edition is an entirely new set of type will count the 1855, 1856, 1860, 1867, 1871 – 72, and 1881.

In 1855, the Christian Spiritualist gave a long, glowing review of “ Song of Myself ”, praising Whitman for representing “ a new poetic mediumship ,” which through active imagination sensed the “ influx of spirit and the divine breath .” Ralph Waldo Emerson also wrote a letter to Whitman, praising his work for its " wit and wisdom ".

Blackwell wrote to his new wife in the summer of 1855, saying " Lucy Stone Blackwell is more independent in her pecuniary position than was Lucy Stone.

His father was editor of newspapers in Hartford, New York City, and Panama, where he died in 1852, and his widow married Edwin W. Stoughton, of New York, in 1855.

In 1855, manufacturing was moved to Hartford and continued until 1876.

In this time he covered ground ordinarily requiring four years of study, and often had recitations with the four college classes at the same time, in December, 1855, he began teaching three hours a day in the School for Deaf-Mutes, at Hartford, founded by his father, and on his graduation at college, in 1856, he assumed full duties as an instructor in that institution.

Appointed to the U. S. Naval Academy in 1855, he graduated in June 1859 and was assigned to the newly-completed steam sloop of war Hartford.

His last séance in America was in March 1855, in Hartford, Connecticut, before he travelled to Boston and sailed to England on board the Africa, at the end of March.

William Thompson Sedgwick ( December 29, 1855, West Hartford – January 25, 1921, Boston ) was a key figure in shaping public health in the United States.

Promoted to lieutenant in 1855, he was aboard USS Hartford off China when the Civil War broke out.

* 1855 – Visit of Napoleon III to Guildhall, London

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1855.

* von Bismark, Friedrich Wilhelm, Graf, Beamish, North Ludlow, ( translator ), On the Uses and Application of Cavalry in War from the Text of Bismark: With Practical Examples Selected from Antient and Modern History, T. & W. Boone, London, 1855

Outside the limited boundaries of the old city, a variety of arrangements have governed the wider area since 1855, culminating with the creation of the Greater London administrative area in 1965.

E. W. Gilbert's version ( 1958 ) of John Snow ( physician ) | John Snow's 1855 map of the Soho cholera outbreak showing the clusters of cholera cases in the London epidemic of 1854 While the basic elements of topography and theme existed previously in cartography, the John Snow map was unique, using cartographic methods not only to depict but also to analyze clusters of geographically dependent phenomena.

* John Brown ( fugitive slave ) ( c. 1810 – 1876 ), writer of Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings and Escape of John Brown published in London, UK 1855

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.

It was displayed in the Great Exhibition of London in 1851 and Paris Exhibition Universelle in 1855, but was usually kept in a bank vault.

) After visiting Dresden, he returned to London by way of Paris in February 1855.

The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke by Richard Dadd, oil on canvas, 26 inches x 21 inches, 1855 – 64, Tate Gallery, London, England, UK

Containing a practical description of the Talbotype process ( London: Hering & Remington ; Peterborough, T. Chadwell & J. Clarke, 1855 ).

Following population increases caused by the expansion of London during the 18th century, it was split off as the parish of Bethnal Green in 1743, becoming part of the Metropolis in 1855 and the County of London in 1889.

Despite forming part of the built up area of London the parish remained outside the statutory metropolitan area established in 1855 and the County of London established in 1889.

However, the parish did not form part of the statutory metropolitan area established in 1855 or the County of London established in 1889.

* Parsonage, St. Mary's, Stoke Newington, London ( c. 1855 )

In June 1855 he presented a scheme he called the Great Victorian Way to the Parliamentary Select Committee on Metropolitan Communications in which he envisioned the construction of an arcade, based on the structure of the Crystal Palace, in a ten mile loop around the centre of London.

The county was significantly affected by the expansion of the metropolitan area of London in both the 18th and 19th centuries, such that from 1855 the south-east was administered as part of the metropolis.

In 1855, the parishes of the densely populated area in the south east, but excluding the City of London, came within the responsibility of the Metropolitan Board of Works.

* Great Gold Robbery of 1855, took place during a train and sea journey from London to Paris on May 15

* Francis Jeffrey Cockburn ( Edinburgh, Midlothian, 8 January 1825-Brentford, London, 10 July 1893 ), a Judge in India and with the Bengal Civil Service, and wife ( Calcutta or Westbury, Tasmania, 25 January 1855 ) Elizabeth Anne ( Eliza Ann ) Pitcairn ( Hobart, Tasmania, 23 September 1831, bap.

* Braid, J., " The Physiology of Fascination " ( Miscellaneous Contribution to the Botany and Zoology including Physiology Section ), Report of the Twenty-Fifth Meeting of the British Association ; Held at Glasgow in September 1855, John Murray, ( London ), 1856, pp. 120 – 121.