The Anina-Oravita railway was the first in Romania, built in 1856, it is still in use today for touristic purposes, and it is one of the most beautiful railways in Europe due to very picturesque landscapes, viaducts and long tunnels.

The railway reached Terrassa in 1856, and nowadays two lines serve the city.

Large country retreats for the affluent classes were built there in the 18th century ; however, most development occurred after the opening of Balham railway station on the line to Crystal Palace in 1856.

A branch railway line from Southall railway station to the Brentford Dock on the Thames was also built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel in 1856.

Development accelerated after the opening of Streatham Hill railway station on the West End of London and Crystal Palace Railway in 1856.

In 1856 the large quay of East Looe was built to handle the demands of the shipping trade, and in 1860, with the canal unable to keep up with demand, a railway was built linking Looe to Moorswater near Liskeard, along the towpath of the canal, which was used less and less until, by 1910, traffic ceased entirely.

In the mid-1850s, two large railway lines converged on the Indiana-Illinois state line – the narrow-gauge Toledo, Wabash and Western Railway ( later the Wabash Railroad ), whose route from the east crossed Warren County and reached the border in October 1856, and the standard-gauge Great Western Railroad, which shortly thereafter reached the state line from the west.

The coal and iron resources of the region were developed: In 1852, Saarbrücken got a railway connecting the Palatine Ludwig Railway with the French Eastern Railway, the Burbach ironworks started production in 1856, the Saar up to Ensdorf was channeled since 1860, and Saarbrücken was connected to the French canal network.

The line of the bridge rather mimics an ancient ferry route, from Hessle to Barton upon Humber, which is mentioned in the Domesday Book and in a charter of 1281, and which was recorded as still running into the railway era in 1856.

Following acquisition by a railway company in 1856, it gradually declined, the southern section being un-navigable by 1945, and the northern section little better.

It was not until January 1856 that the transaction was finally completed, and another year before the railway company took over day-to-day running.

It was served by Copley railway station from 1856 to 1931.

Aylesford railway station, opened on 18 June 1856, is on the Medway Valley Line connecting Strood with Maidstone ( West ) and Paddock Wood.

In 1856 the Westbahn was connected to the central German railway network.

The new railway line to Sydenham and the Crystal Palace in 1856 heralded major changes, and many of the larger houses and gardens were demolished and replaced with predominantly terraced and Semi-detached housing over the next 4 decades.

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

The railway station wasn't open for public transport until 1856, a school was then established in 1882 and post office in 1886.

The cricket ground was laid out in the north-western section of the park ( just behind the current entrance to St James railway station ) and all major games were played there until 1856.

Plans were produced as required by British law in November 1856 and the West Somerset Railway Company was incorporated on 17 August 1857 by an Act of Parliament to build a railway from Taunton to Watchet.

After the Medway Valley railway was opened on June 18, 1856, the village trebled in size between 1861 and 1881.

* A new cemetery, to the west of the new railway and east of Weymouth Avenue, in 1856

With a railway line having been completed to Parramatta in 1856, it was decided to locate the new cemetery at a point on the line.

Streatham Hill railway station was opened by the West End of London and Crystal Palace Railway on 1 December 1856, originally simply being named Streatham.

It is said Chadwick first came across baseball in 1856 in New York as a young cricket reporter, while watching a match between New York's Eagle and Gotham clubs.

After Schumann's death at the sanatorium in 1856, Brahms divided his time between Hamburg, where he formed and conducted a ladies ' choir, and Detmold in the Principality of Lippe, where he was court music-teacher and conductor.

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

* 1856 – The Second Opium War between several western powers and China begins with the Arrow Incident on the Pearl River.

Between 1857 and 1861 all stamps originally issued between 1851 to 1856 were reissued with perforations.

For a short period between 1856 and 1878, two of the nine traditional counties of Bessarabia were also part of Moldavia and then Romania.

The Moldovan-Russian boundary between 1856 / 1857 and 1878

Karl Marx lived at numbers 54 and 28 Dean Street between 1851 and 1856.

In all between 1856 and 1876, 8. 1 million acres were sold for £ 7. 6 million, and 2. 2 million acres were given free to soldiers, sailors and settlers.

One of the better known ferries was the Mormon Ferry across the North Platte near the future site of Fort Caspar in Wyoming which operated between 1848 and 1852 and the Green River ferry near Fort Bridger which operated from 1847 to 1856.

The United States claimed Funafuti, Nukefetau, Nukulaelae and Niulakita under the Guano Islands Act of 1856, this claim was renounced under the 1983 treaty of friendship between Tuvalu and US.

* the so-called New Fair Cathedral, designed in the Russian Revival style and constructed between 1856 and 1880 at the confluence of the Oka and the Volga ;

In 1856 – 1857 there was a case of arbitration between the Crown and the Duchy of Cornwall in which the Officers of the Duchy successfully argued that the Duchy enjoyed many of the rights and prerogatives of a County palatine and that although the Duke was not granted Royal Jurisdiction, he was considered to be quasi-sovereign within his Duchy of Cornwall.

She also visited Switzerland, Italy, Palestine, and Greece between 1856 and 1861, and wrote popular accounts of her travels.

In 1856, the town of Fall River was split off from Tiverton but was ceded to Massachusetts six years later in 1862 as part of the settlement of the boundary dispute between Rhode Island and Massachusetts.

Conflict between the miners and Native Americans led to war in 1853, which continued intermittently until the final defeat of the last band under chiefs John and George by a combined force of regular army and civilians May 29, 1856 at Big Bend on the Illinois River.

The area now covered by Washington County was part of the Cherokee Saline District between 1840 to 1856 and the Cooweescoowee District from 1856 to 1906.

The Central London District School at Hanwell was built between 1856 and 1861 by a group of central London poor law unions to house and educate pauper children away from the workhouse ; the original site at Norwood having proved to be too small and unsuitable for extension.

In 1856, Lundie's Cross Roads became known as County Line, probably for the Baptist Church, founded in 1848 and located on what was then the boundary line between Talladega and Randolph County.

An 1892 Tuolumne County history indicates that, in 1856, four of the six Chinese companies ( protective associations ) had agents here and that the first tong war ( between the Sam Yap and Yan Woo tongs ) was fought near here when the population of the area totaled several thousand.

The railroad, built between 1854 and 1856, was extended to St. Louis and was known as the St. Louis & Terre Haute.

The town was laid out on rolling upland prairie, between the Middle Fork of the Salt and the East Fork of the Chariton rivers, 1856.

Built in 1856, the railroad bisects Jamestown, and still provides a vital link for freight and some passengers between the port cities to the East and interior destinations.