* February 16 – Wilhelm von Gloeden, German photographer ( b. 1856 )

* 1856: Wilhelm Bauer starts the first of 133 successful dives with his second submarine Seeteufel.

Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin ( June 6, 1810-January 11, 1856 ), was a German classical scholar.

Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden ( September 16, 1856 – February 16, 1931 ) was a German photographer who worked mainly in Italy.

# Inscriptionum Latinarum Selectarum Collectio ( 1828 ; revised edition by Wilhelm Henzen, 1856 ), extremely helpful for the study of Roman public and private life and religion.

Lithograph entitled " View of Hakodate from Snow Peak " looking towards the sea — artist, Wilhelm Heine ( 1856 )

*** Wilhelm Ginzkey ( 1856 – 1934, Maffersdorf ), whole industrialist

In the 19th century two separate German versions were retold to Jacob Grimm and his younger brother Wilhelm Grimm, known as the Brothers Grimm, the first by Jeanette Hassenpflug ( 1791 – 1860 ) and the second by Marie Hassenpflug ( 1788 – 1856 ).

In 1856, William Henry Perkin, age 18, given a challenge by his professor, August Wilhelm von Hofmann, sought to synthesize quinine, the anti-malaria drug.

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.

Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen ( Friedrich Maria Albrecht Wilhelm Karl ; 4 June 1856 – 30 December 1936 ) was a member of the House of Habsburg and the Supreme Commander of the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I.

Baron Wilhelm von Biela (; March 19, 1782 – February 18, 1856 ) was a German-Austrian military officer and amateur astronomer.

* Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve ( 1793 – 1864 ), in 1856 by Emperor Alexander II of Russia

It was edited by Carl Wilhelm Borchardt from 1856 – 80, during which time it was known as Borchardt's Journal.

* 1856 – 1880 Carl Wilhelm Borchardt

Band: Nach den Urkunden und Augenzeugen Von Wilhelm Zimmermann, Veröffentlicht von Rieger ' sche Verlagsbuchhandlung ( A. Benedict ), 1856

Band: Nach den Urkunden und Augenzeugen Von Wilhelm Zimmermann, Veröffentlicht von Rieger ' sche Verlagsbuchhandlung ( A. Benedict ), 1856 :)

He also wrote biographies of Wilhelm von Humboldt ( 1856 ), Hegel ( 1857 ), Schopenhauer ( 1864 ), Herder ( 1877-1885 ) and Max Duncker ( 1890 ).

Lithograph of " Shimoda as seen from the American Grave Yard " looking towards the harbor -- artist, Wilhelm Heine ( 1856 ).

A competition was accordingly organized by Admiral Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen which was won by the Dutch poet Hendrik Tollens ( 1780 – 1856 ) with his poem Wien Neerlandsch bloed …, which, after some failed attempts by less gifted composers, was set to music by Johann Wilhelm Wilms ( 1772 – 1847 ), a German expatriate living in Amsterdam.

* Prince Friedrich Wilhelm von Hanau, eldest son of Frederik William, Elector of Hesse-Kassel ( or Hesse-Cassel ), married the actress Auguste Birnbaum in 1856.

Among his students were the German sinologists Wilhelm Grube ( 1855 – 1908 ) and Johann Jakob Maria de Groot ( 1854 – 1921 ), the Austrian sinologist Arthur von Rosthorn ( 1862 – 1945 ), the japanologist Karl Florenz ( 1865 – 1939 ), the archaeologist Max Uhle ( 1856 – 1944 ), the tibetologist Heinrich Wenzel and the art historian Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Müller ( 1863 – 1930 ).

Originally a derogatory epithet applied to these nationalist intellectuals by their mostly Baltic German opponents, the term " Young Latvia " () was first used by Gustav Wilhelm Sigmund Brasche, the pastor of Nīca, in a review of Juris Alunāns ' Dziesmiņas latviešu valodai pārtulkotas (" Little Songs Translated for the Latvian Language ") in the newspaper Das Inland in 1856.

* December 9 – Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli, Austrian general and German field marshal ( b. 1856 )

From the plans of Eduard Totleben a new fort, Constantine, and four batteries were constructed ( 1856 – 1871 ) to defend the principal approach, and seven batteries to cover the shallower northern channel.

Eduard Freiherr von Böhm-Ermolli ( February 12, 1856 – December 9, 1941 ) was an Austrian general during World War I who rose to the rank of field marshal in the Austro-Hungarian Army.

Eduard Vogel ( 7 March 1829-February 1856 ) was a German explorer in Central Africa.

The stage was introduced in scientific literature by Austrian geologist Eduard Suess and German paleontologist Albert Oppel in 1856.

He then equated the ratio of the dielectric constant to the magnetic permeability with a suitably adapted version of Weber and Kohlrausch's result of 1856, and he substituted this result into Newton's equation for the speed of sound.

An origin in the Imperial Aramaic script has nevertheless been proposed by most scholars since the publications by Albrecht Weber ( 1856 ) and Georg Bühler's On the origin of the Indian Brahma alphabet ( 1895 ).

At 18, Margaretha answered an advertisement in a Dutch newspaper placed by Dutch Colonial Army Captain Rudolf MacLeod ( 1 March 1856 – 9 January 1928 ) who was living in the then Dutch East Indies ( now Indonesia ) and was looking for a wife.

It can also be derived from kinetic theory, as was achieved ( apparently independently ) by August Krönig in 1856 and Rudolf Clausius in 1857.

On 8 October 1878 Friedrich married at Château L ' Hermitage in Belgium, Princess Isabella of Croÿ ( 1856 – 1931 ), daughter of Rudolf, Duke of Croÿ, and his wife Princess Natalie of Ligne.

* Atharva Veda, editor with Rudolf von Roth ( 1856 – 1857 )

German physician Rudolf Virchow categorized abnormalities in the consistency of the blood as a factor in the development of thrombosis in 1856.

Glan Rhondda ( Banks of the Rhondda ), as it was known when it was composed, was first performed in the vestry of the original Capel Tabor, Maesteg, ( which later became a working men's club ), in either January or February 1856, by Elizabeth John from Pontypridd, and it soon became popular in the locality.

It was first performed in England on 24 May 1856 in Italian at Her Majesty's Theatre in London, where it was considered morally questionable, and " the heads of the Church did their best to put an injunction upon performance ; the Queen refrained from visiting the theatre during the performances, though the music, words and all, were not unheard at the palace ".

It was first performed in the United States on 3 December 1856 in Italian at the Academy of Music in New York.

The opera was first performed in France on 6 December 1856 in Italian by the Théâtre-Italien at the Salle Ventadour in Paris, and on 27 October 1864 in French as Violetta ( an adaptation by Édouard Duprez, older brother of the tenor Gilbert Duprez ) at the Théâtre Lyrique on the Place du Châtelet with Christine Nilsson in the title role.

A French version translated by E. Milien Pacini and called Le trouvère was first performed at La Monnaie in Brussels on 20 May 1856 and at the Paris Opera's Salle Le Peletier on 12 January 1857.

During the Easter vacation in 1856, while Hofmann was visiting his native Germany, Perkin performed some further experiments in the crude laboratory in his apartment on the top floor of his home in Cable Street in east London.

Daimler performed well, and when Rollé und Schwilque began making railway locomotives in 1856, Daimler, then 22, was named foreman.

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.

Their 1856 wedding ceremony included Anglican prayers, but had to be performed by the Congregationalist minister.

It then regularly hosted evening festivities, and Johann Strauss II ( 1856 ), Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann and Feodor Chaliapin were among the celebrities who performed there.

Two-storey Welsh chapel built in 1856-59, with a brick facade installed during renovations performed from 1856 to 1891.

Work on vessels such as Minotaur was performed on the Canning Town side of the Lea, and this is where the Thames Ironworks expanded from less than in 1856 to by 1891.

Early classifications were performed by Pfeiffer ( 1837 ), Salm-Dick ( 1845 ) and Engelmann ( 1856 ).

In Italy, with Verdi sanctioning the removal of the thirty-minute ballet ( a ballet being customary in Paris at the time ), the 1855 / 1856 season saw the Italian version of the opera performed nine times and, after 1861 in the new post-unification era, it reverted to its original name.

His opera Esmeralda ( libretto by composer, based on Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame ) was composed in 1839 ( performed 1847 ), and his Rusalka was performed in 1856 ; but he had little success or recognition either at home or abroad, except in Belgium, until the 1860s, when he became the elder statesman, but not a member, of The Five.

Newton also widened the mandate of the Shaw Festival ( the performance of plays written and set in Bernard Shaw's lifetime, 1856 – 1950 ) by programming the works of lesser known playwrights such as Granville Barker, whose entire oeuvre was performed at the Shaw Festival in a series of highly praised productions directed by Neil Munro.

Tappan was clerk of the Topeka constitutional convention ; assistant clerk of the House of Representatives in 1856 ; and the following year performed the duties of Speaker of the Topeka House of Representatives.