The Paris Declaration Respecting Maritime Law of 16 April 1856 was issued to abolish privateering.

However, the breakthrough came in 1856 when the Declaration of Paris, signed by all major European powers, stated that " Privateering is and remains abolished ".

The US was not one of the initial signatories of the 1856 Declaration of Paris which outlawed privateering, and the Confederate Constitution authorized use of privateers.

Finally, after the Congress of Paris at the end of the Crimean War, seven European nations signed the Paris Declaration of 1856 renouncing privateering, and forty-five more eventually joined them, which in effect abolished privateering worldwide.

" However, since the American Civil War, the United States as a matter of policy has consistently followed the terms of the 1856 Paris Declaration forbidding the practice.

* 1856 Paris Declaration Respecting Maritime Law abolished privateering

Charles A. Goodrich, Lives of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, 1856

Charles A. Goodrich, " Thomas Heyward, Jr .", in Lives of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, New York: William Reed & Co., 1856, pp. 440 – 443

The 1856 Declaration of Paris abolished privateering, protected neutral goods shipped to belligerents except for “ contrabands of war ,” and recognized blockades only if they were proved effective.

The Paris Declaration Respecting Maritime Law of 16 April 1856 was issued to abolish privateering.

These were supplemented by various international agreements including the Declaration of Paris ( 1856 ) and the Hague Conventions ( 1899 and 1907 ) and other naval agreements during the 20th century.

In 1856 and afterward, numerous states, including the United Kingdom, Austria-Hungary, France, Prussia, Russia, Sardinia and the Ottoman Empire, ratified the Declaration of Paris.

Before the next case of blockade which can be described as pacific occurred came the Declaration of Paris ( April 15, 1856 ), requiring that blockades in order to be binding must be effective ; that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy.

The British government protestmi that Admiral Coubert had not enough ships to render the blockade effective, and that it was therefore a violation of one of the articles of the Declaration of Paris of 1856 ; moreover, that the French government could only interfere with neutral vessels violating the blockade if there was a state of war.

* 1856 – A Peace conference opened in Paris after Crimean War.

By his wife, the countess Katinka Kendeffy, whom he married in Paris in 1856, Count Andrássy left two sons, and one daughter, Ilona ( b. 1858 ).

* 1856 – The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Crimean War.

After surveys and analyses in Egypt and discussions in Paris on various aspects of the canal, where many of Negrelli's ideas prevailed, the commission produced a final unanimous report in December 1856 containing a detailed description of the canal complete with plans and profiles.

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.

At the end of the Crimean War, in 1856, by the Treaty of Paris, two districts of southern Bessarabia were returned to Moldavia, causing the Russian Empire to lose access to the Danube river.

The most important is the chronicle called Gesta consulum Andegavorum, of which only a poor edition exists ( Chroniques des comtes d ' Anjou, published by Marchegay and Salmon, with an introduction by E. Mabille, Paris, 1856 – 1871, collection of the Société de l ' histoire de France ).

* Treaty of Paris ( 1856 ), ended the Crimean War

* John Ayrton Paris ( 1785 – 1856 ), physician

The Paris Peace Conference of 1856 represented a high-water mark for the regime in foreign affairs, when Napoleon had followed through with his ideas set out in Des idées napoléoniennes.

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.

* Monument du Général Rapp – 1856 ( first shown 1855 in Paris.

In order that the Yusupov name might not die out, the prince's father, Count Felix Felixovich Sumarokov-Elston ( October 5, 1856, Saint Petersburg – June 10, 1928, Rome, Italy ), General Governor of Moscow ( 1914 – 1915 ) ( son of Count Felix Nikolaievich Sumarokov-Elston ), took the surname of his wife, Princess Zenaida Nikolaievna Yusupova ( September 2, 1861, Saint Petersburg – November 24, 1939, Paris ) upon their marriage, on April 4, 1882 in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

He died on 17 February 1856 and was interred in the Paris Cimetière de Montmartre.

** Marguerite Louise Elisabeth Junot d ' Abrantès ( Paris, 25 January 1856 – 1919 ), married in Paris, 11 November 1883 César Elzéar Léon Vicomte Arthaud de La Ferrière ( 1853 – 1924 ).

On 27 February 1856 an armistice was signed and after a month's negotiations an agreement was signed at the Congress of Paris.

The Danish government outlawed the practice in 1856 and eased the regulations in 1904 to deal with the limited amount of patronymics.

An annex to the Treaty of Paris ( 1856 ) banned privateering.

At the 1856 Republican National Convention, Lincoln placed second in the contest to become the party's candidate for vice president.

The family factory produced armaments for the Crimean War ( 1853 – 1856 ); but, had difficulty switching back to regular domestic production when the fighting ended and they filed for bankruptcy.

" The Republicans gained majorities in both House and Senate for the first time since Democrats in the 1856 elections, they were to be seated in numbers which Lincoln might use to govern, a national parliamentary majority even before pro-slavery House and Senate seats vacated.

When the presidential election of 1856 approached, Johnson and supporters harbored a vague hope for the presidency, and he gave a speech to the Tennessee Democratic delegates reiterating his views ; some county conventions designated him a favorite son and the Nashville Union and American proposed his nomination.

After Heine's German birthplace of Düsseldorf had rejected, allegedly for anti-Semitic motives, a centennial monument to the radical German-Jewish poet ( 1797 – 1856 ), his incensed German-American admirers, including Carl Schurz, started a movement to place one instead in Midtown Manhattan, at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street.

In February 1856, the Chesbrough plan for the building of the United States ' first comprehensive sewerage system was approved by the Common Council.

The third pandemic erupted in 1839, persisted until 1856, extended to North Africa, and reached South America, for the first time specifically infringing upon Brazil.

Mass public support for the captured ' rebels ' in the colony's capital of Melbourne when they were placed on trial resulted in the introduction of the Electoral Act 1856, which mandated full white male suffrage for elections for the lower house in the Victorian parliament, the first instituted political democracy in Australia.

The expression " French Fried Potatoes " first occurs in print in English in the 1856 work Cookery for Maids of All Work by E. Warren: " French Fried Potatoes.

* 1856 – The colonial Tasmanian Parliament passes the second piece of legislation ( the Electoral Act of 1856 ) anywhere in the world providing for elections by way of a secret ballot.

Democratic party leaders saw the Republicans ' choice as an opportunity to take back the White House for the first time since 1856 if the right candidate could be found.

While continuing to contribute pieces to the Westminster Review, Evans had resolved to become a novelist, and she set out a manifesto for herself in one of her last essays for the Review, " Silly Novels by Lady Novelists " ( 1856 ).

Lord Canning ( created earl in 1859 ), appointed Governor-General of India in 1856, became known as " Clemency Canning " as a term of derision for his efforts to restrain revenge against the Indians during the Indian Mutiny.

* 1856 – Five hundred Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa and head west for Salt Lake City carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.

It was claimed for the United States under the name " Danger Reef " by the Guano Islands Act of 1856.

Lyman Frank Baum ( May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919 ) was an American author of children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

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.

Malden was claimed by the U. S. Guano Company under the Guano Islands Act of 1856, which authorized citizens to take possession of uninhabited islands under the authority of the United States for the purpose of removing guano, a valuable agricultural fertilizer.

Similarly, tourism accounts for close to 15 % of the annual revenue, as the Principality of Monaco also has been a major centre for tourism ever since the famed casino was established in 1856.