He was soon transferred to the newly formed 1st Cavalry Regiment ( 1855 ) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Territory, where he became regimental quartermaster and commissary officer under the command of Col. Edwin V. Sumner.

Percival Lawrence Lowell ( March 13, 1855 – November 12, 1916 ) was an American businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars, founded the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, and formed the beginning of the effort that led to the discovery of Pluto 14 years after his death.

Clay County was formed in 1855.

The Mechanics ' Institute, formed in 1844, moved into a building looking rather like a church and included a covered market, on 1 May 1855.

Merced County was formed in 1855 from parts of Mariposa County.

Snyder County was formed in 1855 from parts of Union County.

Snyder County was settled in the 1740s by Pennsylvania Germans from Berks and Lancaster Counties, and became an independent political unit on March 2, 1855 when formed under part of Union County.

The county was formed in 1855 from parts of Edgecombe County, Johnston County, Nash County, and Wayne County.

The county was formed in 1855 from parts of Henderson County and Rutherford County.

York County was formed in 1855.

Richardson County was formed in 1855.

Johnson County was formed in 1855.

Dodge County was formed in 1855.

Dakota County was formed by European-American settlers in 1855.

Cuming County was formed in 1855.

Cedar County was formed in 1855.

Buffalo County was formed in 1855.

In 1855 the Poplar District of the Metropolis was formed, which also included Bromley and Bow.

When the county was originally formed in 1855, it was bounded by the Kansas River on the north, and the southern boundary was nine miles ( 14 km ) further south.

Tecumseh Township was one of the two original townships formed in 1855, and it originally extended over all the county south of the Kansas River to the Wakarusa River.

Geary County was formed on August 30, 1855 as an original county from open, free territory.

In the spring of 1855 a party of pro-slavery men from Fort Scott formed a town company and laid out a town on the high land east of the Neosho River, south of the mouth of Elm Creek.

Effingham County was formed in 1855 out of Fayette and Crawford Counties.

Both military engineers and artillery formed the body of this organization and served together until the office's predecessor, the Board of Ordnance was disbanded in 1855.

In 1855 a group of St. Paul businessmen interested in promoting the town formed the Saint Peter Company, and the town was renamed St. Peter.

It is primarily based on the Civil code of 1855, derived from Spanish law and subsequent codes influenced by European law of the last half of the 19th Century.

Ten years later, limited liability, the key provision of modern corporate law, passed into English law: in response to increasing pressure from newly emerging capital interests, Parliament passed the Limited Liability Act 1855, which established the principle that any corporation could enjoy limited legal liability on both contract and tort claims simply by registering as a " limited " company with the appropriate government agency.

Mecklenburg-Schwerin however used white instead of yellow for flags on sea by law of 24 March 1855.

Following graduation, he traveled and studied in Europe from 1851 to 1853 before entering Transylvania College in Lexington, where he earned a law degree in 1855.

In the 1850s, Ohm's law was known as such, and was widely considered proved, and alternatives such as " Barlow's law " discredited, in terms of real applications to telegraph system design, as discussed by Samuel F. B. Morse in 1855.

Almost any organization posing any conceivable danger to public order in the broadest sense is forbidden by the still extant Wet vereniging en vergadering (" Law of association and assembly ") of 1855, but this law only very rarely leads to an official disbandment of an organization as a legal entity under the civil code.

* John Mercer Langston ( 1829 – 1899 ), abolitionist, activist, educator and politician-in 1855 first black person in Ohio elected to public office, first dean of Howard University law school, first president of Virginia State University, in 1888 first black person to be elected to the United States Congress from Virginia.

The Ley Juárez ( Juárez Law ) of 1855 declared all citizens equal before the law and severely restricted the privileges of the Catholic Church.

Haarlemmermeer became incorporated as a municipality in the province of North Holland by law on July 16, 1855.

The two set the date for May 1, 1855, and Stone began again to book lectures, including an appearance in Toronto before the Parliament of Canada in support of a proposed married woman's property law.

The Supreme Court of Indiana also discussed alcohol prohibition as a sumptuary law in its 1855 decision Herman v. State.

Chile promulgated its civil code in 1855, an original work in confront with the French code both for the scheme and for the contents ( similar to the Castillan law in force in that territory ) that was written by Andrés Bello ( begun in 1833 ).

In 1855, free love advocate Mary Gove Nichols ( 1810 – 1884 ) described marriage as the " annihilation of woman ," explaining that women were considered to be men's property in law and public sentiment, making it possible for tyrannical men to deprive their wives of all freedom.

In 1855 and 1856 he conducted column experiments that established what has become known as Darcy's law ; initially developed to describe flow through sands, it has since been generalized to a variety of situations and is in widespread use today.

He graduated with a law degree from the University of Virginia in 1855.

While practicing law there from 1852 until 1857, he was a delegate to the 1855 Ohio Republican Convention and an unsuccessful candidate for district attorney in 1856.

Prior to enactment of the Morrill Act in 1862, Michigan State University was chartered under Michigan state law as a state land-grant institution on February 12, 1855, as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, receiving an appropriation of of state-owned land.

The passage of the law, which prohibited the sale of all alcoholic beverages except for " medicinal, mechanical or manufacturing purposes ," quickly spread elsewhere, and by 1855 twelve states had joined Maine in total prohibition.

Opposition to the law turned violent in Portland, Maine on June 2, 1855 during an incident known as the Maine law riot.

In February 1855, a second prohibitory liquor law passed by the state legislature.

Two years later, in 1855, the legislature passed a revised prohibitory liquor law to avoid the constitutional flaws of the first law.