In 1855, upon Gauss ' death, the University of Göttingen decided to call Dirichlet as his successor.

The use of the term was first attributed to Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard ( 1813 – 1855 ).

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.

It was known as Anderson Station until the post office was established in November 1855 and the government changed the name of the station from “ Anderson ” to “ Andersonville ” in order to avoid confusion with the post office in Anderson, South Carolina.

As late as 1855, the New York press was still devoting more space to coverage of cricket than to baseball.

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

< sup >*</ sup > In 1855 Mouton-Rothschild was ranked a Second Growth.

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.

By the autumn of 1855, the royal apartments were ready, though the tower was still under construction and the servants had to be lodged in the old house.

Charles Robert Malden ( 9 August 1797 – 23 May 1855 ), was a nineteenth century British naval officer, surveyor and educator.

Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (;, ) ( 30 April 177723 February 1855 ) was a German mathematician and physical scientist who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, geophysics, electrostatics, astronomy and optics.

The Treaty was ratified on 21 February 1855.

Charlotte Brontë (; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855 ) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood, whose novels are English literature standards.

Charlotte's friendship with fellow writer Elizabeth Gaskell, whilst not necessarily close, was significant in that Gaskell wrote Charlotte's biography after her death in 1855.

Cecilia Beaux ( May 1, 1855 – September 7, 1942 ) was an American society portraitist, in the manner of John Singer Sargent.

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.

This prompted the English periodical The Economist to write in 1855 that " never, perhaps, was a change so vehemently and generally demanded, of which the importance was so much overrated.

In 1855 the jizya tax was abolished.

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.

David was the third of six children, two daughters and four sons: James ( 1777 – 1847 ), minister at Craig, Ferryden ; David ; David ; George ( 1784 – 1855 ), minister at Scoonie, Fife ; and Patrick ( 1788 – 1859 ), minister at the abbey church, Paisley.

In 1831 he published a short popular account of the philosopher's life in Murray's Family Library ; but it was not until 1855 that he was able to issue the much fuller Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton, a work which embodied the results of more than 20 years ' investigation of original manuscripts and other available sources.

His grandfather was a newspaper printer from New Jersey who had relocated to Manhattan, Kansas, in 1855, and his father was editor of his own newspaper in the town.

He was awarded an A. M. degree with the highest honors in May 1855.

When this occurred, with part of the sum the Porson prize was founded in 1816 at Cambridge, and remainder was devoted to the foundation of the Porson scholarship, first awarded in 1855.

Maude was born in Gibraltar into a military family ; his father was Sir Frederick Francis Maude – a general who had been awarded the Victoria Cross in 1855 during the Crimean War, and who is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.

Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide each submitted to be the venue of a branch of the Royal Mint and after some deliberation the British government awarded it to Sydney, which began issuing coins in 1855.

Under the terms of the Lambert Charter, which Radama secretly contracted in 1855 with French entrepreneur Joseph-François Lambert while Ranavalona yet ruled, the French were awarded exclusive rights to the exploitation of large tracts of valuable land and other lucrative resources and projects.

From 1855 to 1859 he was awarded the administration of the National Liquor Factory and thus became the only official State supplier of alcohol.

* Alma ( awarded 1855 to 38th Foot )

* Inkerman ( awarded 1855 to 38th Foot )

* Sevastopol ( awarded 1855 to 38th Foot )

After a delay to acquire land and raise capital, William Dargan was awarded the contract for building the line and began work in March 1855.

The 1855 classification contained more wines from Margaux than from any other appellation, and its best-known vineyard, Château Margaux, was one of only four wines to be awarded the Premier Cru status.

Symons was 29 years old, and a sergeant in the Royal Regiment of Artillery, British Army during the Crimean War when the following deed On 6 June 1855 took place at Inkerman, Crimea for which he was awarded the VC.

On 18 June 1855, he was 25 years old, and a Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers, when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.

Major William Mordaunt Marsh Edwards, VC, DL ( 7 May 1855 – 17 September 1912 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

He then managed to gain a third in November 1855 and was awarded the fourth only on 18 November 1857 ( four days after his discharge Board ).

The succession was settled and the production for China continued ; in 1855 Bovet was awarded a gold medal at the world exhibition in Paris for an absolutely identical pair of watches ordered by the emperor of China.

* Mustafa-ed-din Bey, Turkish First Dragoman, awarded the 2nd Class ( for non-Christians ), September 14, 1855

* Mohammed Essad Safvet-Effendi, Turkish Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, awarded the 2nd Class ( for non-Christians ), September 14, 1855

He was awarded first prize at his graduation examination for the opera La Tirolese ( 1855 ), which was performed on stage in the same year.

At the Paris Exhibition of 1855 he received one of the five first-class gold medals awarded to British painters.

In 1855, Andsell was awarded a gold medal at the Paris Exhibition for his works, " The Wolf Slyer " and " Taming the Drove ".