* 1856 – Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross.

The first inter-colonial cricket match to be played at the MCG was between Victoria and New South Wales in March 1856.

Queen Victoria announced the city status of Perth in 1856.

* Frederick Hitch ( 1856 – 1913 ), recipient of the Victoria Cross

* 1856 – James Harrison patented an ether liquid-vapour compression refrigeration system and developed the first practical ice-making and refrigeration room for use in the brewing and meat-packing industries of Geelong, Victoria.

In April 1856 Palmerston was awarded the Order of the Garter by Victoria.

In 1856, the Victorian colonial government opened the Melbourne Public Library ( now the State Library of Victoria ).

In the reign of Queen Victoria, coins were minted for circulation in 1839, 1842, 1843, 1844, 1847, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854, and 1856.

Tasmania was granted responsible self-government in 1856, but the colony did not receive its own flag until Queen Victoria had first proposed on 7 August 1869, that the colony of Tasmania ( and the other Australian colonies ) should adopt a Union flag defaced in the centre with the State Badge.

It was refurbished and presented as a gift from the United States to Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom in 1856.

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.

The University of Melbourne was founded in 1855 and the State Library of Victoria in 1856.

The University of Melbourne was founded in 1855 and the State Library of Victoria in 1856.

In November 1856, Victoria was given a constitution and in the following year full responsible government with a two house Parliament.

The Queen Victoria Memorial was designed by local architect, Percy Stone ( 1856 – 1934 ).

The Victoria Cross has been presented to 94 Canadians and 2 Newfoundlanders between its creation in 1856 and 1993, when the Canadian Victoria Cross was instituted.

It also contains the Lahore Diamond ( 22. 48 carats ) from the Treasury of Lahore given to Queen Victoria by the East India Company in 1851 and a 17-carat ( 3. 4 g ) diamond given to Queen Victoria by the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire in 1856.

As a result, Victoria was granted full responsible parliamentary government in 1855, New South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania in 1856 and Queensland in 1859.

Until the original Tasmanian Electoral Act of 1856 was're-discovered ' recently, credit for the first implementation of the secret ballot often went to the colonies of Victoria and South Australia.

Victoria enacted legislation for secret ballots on March 19, 1856, and South Australian Electoral Commissioner William Boothby generally gets credit for creating the system finally enacted into law in South Australia on April 2 of that same year ( a fortnight later ).

Victoria gained full responsible parliamentary government in 1855, New South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania in 1856, Queensland in 1859 and Western Australia ( owing to its much smaller population ) in 1890.

Unfortunately in January 1856 the Victoria Vineyard and Garden Fruit Company was forced to sell its land.

In 1856, he received the first Mendelssohn Scholarship and studied at the Royal Academy of Music and then at Leipzig, where he also took up conducting.

According to his The New York Times obituary published on April 3, 1872, Morse received respectively the decoration of the Atiq Nishan-i-Iftikhar ( English: Order of Glory ) medal on wearer's right depicted in photo of Morse with medals, set in diamonds, from the Sultan Ahmad I ibn Mustafa of Turkey ( c. 1847 ), a golden snuff box containing the Prussian gold medal for scientific merit from the King of Prussia ( 1851 ); the Great Gold Medal of Arts and Sciences from the King of Württemberg ( 1852 ); and the Great Golden Medal of Science and Arts from Emperor of Austria ( 1855 ); a cross of Chevalier in the Légion d ' honneur from the Emperor of France ; the Cross of a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog from the King of Denmark ( 1856 ); the Cross of Knight Commander of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, from the Queen of Spain, besides being elected member of innumerable scientific and art societies in this States and other countries.

The Native Americans had received the worse of the fighting throughout this conflict, and as they began to surrender, they were herded to existing reservations, beginning in January, 1856 when one group was marched to the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation west of Salem.

Some say it is named after Henry Lix who received a land patent on January 3, 1856 ; others claim it is named after Louis W. Lix, the first postmaster of the office that existed from November 25, 1895-April 15, 1945.

It was founded by Fathers Francis Haas ( 1826 – 1895 ) and Bonaventure Frey, two Swiss diocesan priests who arrived in the United States in September 1856, and were received into the then-Diocese of Milwaukee by Bishop John Henni, also a Swiss immigrant, and given charge of St. Nicholas Parish, which they renamed Mount Calvary.

Sparta also received territory from other towns: Dansville ( in Steuben County ) ( 1822 ) and Groveland ( 1856 ).

In July 1856, Smetana received news of the death in exile of his revolutionary friend Karel Havlíček.

A soldier attempted to assassinate Ferdinand in 1856 and many believe that the infection he received from the soldier's bayonet led to his ultimate demise.

In 1856, he briefly visited Great Britain and received a favorable welcome.

Tom Arnold was received into the Roman Catholic Church on 12 January 1856, which made him so unpopular in his job ( and with his wife ) that he resigned and left for England with his family in July 1856.

On August 26, 1856, with the ascent of Alexander II to the throne, the Decembrists received amnesty, their rights, privileges, and titles restored.

In 1856, Joseph Leidy received fragmentary remains from the Judith River Formation, collected by Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden.

He joined University of Edinburgh as a medical student and received his medical degree in 1856.

On 19 April 1850 he was gazetted lieutenant-colonel of the 78th foot, and in the Persian war of 1856 and 1857 commanded a brigade in the night attack and battle of Kooshat, and took charge of his own regiment at the bombardment of Mohamrah, after which he received the thanks of the governor-general as well as a medal and clasps.

William Archer ( 23 September 1856 – 27 December 1924 ), Scottish critic, was born in Perth, and was educated at the University of Edinburgh, where he received the degree of M. A.

He received his Ph. D. in physical science in 1856 from Dickinson College.

In this capacity, they protested Russia's offer to exchange the previously Ottoman-ruled Northern Dobruja for Budjak, a portion of southern Bessarabia that Romania had received under the 1856 Treaty of Paris.

He was one of the commissioners appointed to build the state capitol 1874 ; in 1867 appointed clerk of Westchester County, but resigned after a short service ; made immigration commissioner by New York Legislature in 1870, but declined to serve ; member of boundary commission of the state of New York in 1875 ; had also been commissioner of quarantine and president of Court of Claims of New York City and commissioner of taxes and assessments for the city and county of New York ; defeated for Lieutenant Governor of New York on the Liberal Republican-Democratic ticket in 1872 ; candidate for U. S. Senator from New York in 1881, but withdrew after the 41st ballot ; declined nomination as a senator in 1885 ; but elected to the U. S. Senate in 1899, and re-elected in 1905, and served from March 4, 1899, to March 4, 1911 ; stumped the state of New York for John C. Frémont in 1856 and for Abraham Lincoln in 1860 ; delegate-at-large to Republican National conventions 1888-1904 and delegate to all following conventions, including 1928, being elected the day before he died ; made the nomination speeches for Harrison in 1892, Governor Morton in 1896, and Fairbanks in 1904 ; at the convention in 1888 received ninety-nine votes for the presidential nomination, and in 1892 declined an appointment as Secretary of State in Harrison's cabinet ; Adjutant of the 18th Regiment, New York National Guard, which served in the American Civil War, and later Colonel and Judge Advocate of the 5th Division, on the staff of Major General James W. Husted of the New York Guard, trustee of Peekskill Military Academy ; president of New York State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, of the Pilgrims Society from 1918 until his death, of the St. Nicholas Society, and of the Union League for seven years ( member since 1868 and elected honorary life member at the close of his presidency ); an officer of the French Légion d ' honneur ; vice president of New York Chamber of Commerce 1904-08 ( member since 1885 ).

The University of Ottawa had its 1846 origins as a college, and it received its present location in 1856.

In 1856, Congress provided a salary for consuls serving at certain posts ; those who received a salary could not engage in private business, but could continue to collect fees for services performed.

with Dirichlet, among others, where he received a doctorate in 1856

He received a Honorary Doctorate of Civil Laws by the University of Oxford in 1856.

His speech on the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, in 1856, received the highest praise, and in 1858 his speech on the Lecompton Constitution of Kansas, and his criticisms of the opinion of the supreme court in the Dred Scott Case, were considered the ablest discussion of those topics.