* 1816 – Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, French chemist ( d. 1856 )

Charles A. Goodrich, 1856

Charles Louis Napoléon ( 1808 – 1873 ), son of Louis Napoléon, was president of France in 1848 – 1852 and emperor in 1852 – 1870, reigning as Napoléon III ; his son, Eugène Bonaparte ( 1856 – 1879 ), styled the Prince Imperial, died fighting the Zulus in Natal, South Africa.

** Charles Waring Darwin ( 1856 – 1858 ), youngest son of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

* 1856 – Charles Émile Picard, French mathematician ( d. 1941 )

* 1856 – Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas (" Bleeding Kansas ").

* 1856 – Charles Leroux, American balloonist and parachutist ( d. 1889 )

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Charles A. Goodrich, 1856

Upon graduation in 1856, Mudd returned to Charles County to practice medicine, marrying his childhood sweetheart, Sarah Frances ( Frankie ) Dyer Mudd one year later.

Charles Lyell recognised the implications of Wallace's paper and its possible connection to Darwin's work, although Darwin did not, and in the spring of 1856 Lyell urged Darwin to publish his theory to establish priority.

** Charles Frohman, American theater producer, died on Lusitania ( b. 1856 )

* September 24 – Charles Leroux, American balloonist and parachutist ( b. 1856 )

* July 24 – Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer ( d. 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.

In 1880, Myers married Eveleen Tennant ( 1856 – 1937 ), daughter of Charles Tennant and Gertrude Tennant.

Charles Émile Picard ForMemRS (; 24 July 1856 – 11 December 1941 ) was a French mathematician.

Coal tar was subsequently used to produce the first synthetic dye, mauve, by William Henry Perkin in 1856 and in 1853 was found, by Charles Gerhardt to contain the chemical acetylsalicylic acid, now known as aspirin.

* John Scott – Matilda ( 1827 ), The Colonel ( 1828 ), Rowton ( 1829 ), Margrave ( 1832 ), Touchstone ( 1834 ), Don John ( 1838 ), Charles the Twelfth ( 1839 ), Launcelot ( 1840 ), Satirist ( 1841 ), The Baron ( 1845 ), Newminster ( 1851 ), West Australian ( 1853 ), Warlock ( 1856 ), Imperieuse ( 1857 ), Gamester ( 1859 ), The Marquis ( 1862 )

In 1856, the citizens of Hernando County chose to rename the town, their new County Seat, Brooksville in honor of South Carolina Representative Preston Brooks, who in the same year beat fierce abolitionist Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the Senate chambers, winning the Congressman great renown in the South.

In an 1856 book, adventurer Charles Lanman wrote of the springs: Another possible origin for the name Wakulla, not as widely accepted, is that it means " mist " or " misting ", perhaps in reference to the Wakulla Volcano, a 19th century phenomenon in which a column of smoke could be seen emerging from the swamp for miles.

Charles A. Goodrich, 1856

Other notable stagings featured John Philip Kemble in 1811, Samuel Phelps in 1845, and Charles Kean in an 1856 production that was famous for its elaborate sets and costumes.

* 1879 – Napoléon, Prince Imperial French son of Napoleon III of France ( b. 1856 )

* 1856 – Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial, only child of Emperor Napoleon III of France ( d. 1879 )

* 1799 – William Sprague III, American politician ( d. 1856 )

* June 1 – Napoleon Eugene, Prince Imperial, son of French Emperor Napoleon III ( b. 1856 )

* November 27 – The Coup of 1856 leads to Luxembourg's unilateral adoption of a new, reactionary constitution, as King-Grand Duke William III signs the new constitution without the Chamber of Deputies ' consent.

Napoléon, Prince Imperial, ( Full name: Napoléon Eugène Louis Jean Joseph, 16 March 1856 – 1 June 1879 ), Prince Imperial, Fils de France, was the only child of Emperor Napoleon III of France and his Empress consort Eugénie de Montijo.

After successfully seeking British support and ingratiating himself with France and Napoleon III at the Congress of Paris in 1856 at the end of the war, Count Cavour arranged a secret meeting with the French emperor.

* III – February 1856 ( chapters 9 – 11 )

On his return to Paris he was named senator, created duc de Malakoff ( 22 July 1856 ; the only other victory title awarded by Napoleon III, also ducal, was for the victory in the battle of Magenta, in the Italian campaign ), and rewarded with a grant of 100, 000 francs per annum.

* Ruskin, J., " Of the Pathetic Fallacy ", Modern Painters III ( 1856 ) http :// www. ourcivilisation. com / smartboard / shop / ruskinj /

Over his illustrious career he received 27 medals including the Legion of Honor from Emperor Napoleon III of France in 1855 and a knighthood from Queen Victoria in 1856.

* Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial or Napoléon IV, Prince Imperial, often referred to as Louis Napoléon ( 1856 – 1879 ), only child of Napoleon III

In 1856, the Prince of Monaco, Charles III, began constructing a casino in Monaco, which was called a health spa to avoid criticism by the church.

The most common gold dollar are the Type III and started in 1856 until 1889.

It became an independent municipality on June 13, 1856 by an imperial decree of Napoleon III.

It has been confirmed that the village was once visited in 1856 by Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, who went on to become the " Ninety-Nine-Day Emperor ", Kaiser Friedrich III.

James III owned a beautiful estate at " Nashaun Island ," according to Thomas Bridgman who in 1856 published The Pilgrims of Massachusetts and Their Descendants.

In 1856, a war memorial named De Eendracht ( The Unity ) was unveiled inside the square before King William III.

** Vol. III Imaginary geometry ( 1835 ); Application of imaginary geometry to certain integrals ( 1836 ); Pangeometry ( 1856 ).

Union Square is noted for its impressive equestrian statue of U. S. President George Washington, modeled by Henry Kirke Brown and unveiled in 1856, the first public sculpture erected in New York City since the equestrian statue of George III in 1770, and the first American equestrian sculpture cast in bronze.

He induced Napoleon III to renew the French alliance with Siam and to send an embassy under M. de Montigny to Siam in 1856.

When their uncle died in 1856, William and Amasa – along with their cousin Col. Byron Sprague, son of William III, and their mother Fanny Sprague and Aunt Harriet, widow of William III – became partners in the company.