Historical Events in 1855
50 curated events dated to this year, and 164 musicalized poets on V2Melody were alive then.
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1855
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Appointment as Professor at Harvard
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Bubonic Plague Third Pandemic Begins in Yunnan, China
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First Edition of 'Leaves of Grass' Published
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Lecturing on Women's Rights
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Publication of 'Leaves of Grass' by Walt Whitman
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Publication of 'The Return of the Guards'
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Appointment as a Mathematics Lecturer
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Family Return to the Dickinson Homestead
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First and Only Extended Journey: Washington and Philadelphia
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First Archaeopteryx Fossil Found in Germany
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First Rubber Condoms Mass Produced
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Friendship with David Gray
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Publication of 'The Pleasures of a Life of Letters'
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Publication of 'Westward Ho!'
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The Great Earthquakes of Japan
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The Publication of 'The Song of Hiawatha' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Walt Whitman Confronts Bodily Reality and Parasites in Leaves of Grass
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Birth of Coventry Patmore's First Child
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Conservatory Addition to the Homestead
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Creation of the First Safety Match by John Edvard Lundström
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Education in Classical Languages
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Elisha Kent Kane's Second Grinnell Expedition
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First Published Work
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Friendship with Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Goodyear Vulcanizes Rubber for Condoms
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HMS Resolute Is Recovered from Arctic Ice
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Ordination as a Methodist Minister
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Parliamentary Select Committee on Food Adulteration
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Publication of 'Day and Night Songs'
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Publication of 'The New York Mirror'
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Publication of 'The Poetical Works of William Brighty Rands'
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Publication of 'The Undying One'
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Publication of 'The Wife and the Woman'
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Publication of First Collection
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The Agonizing Open-Sea Survival of the Castaways of the Shipwrecked Julia Ann
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Birth of Daughter, Emma Cayley
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Chicago Police Department Established
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Death of Father
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Early Education in Hartford
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Early Education of Arthur O'Shaughnessy
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Final Years and Legacy
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Friendship with Alfred Tennyson
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Friendship with Edgar Allan Poe
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Friendship with Robert Browning
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Heinrich Geissler invents the gas-discharge Geissler tube in Bonn
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Involvement in the Nottingham Literary Society
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The Great Earthquake of 1855 in New Zealand
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United Kingdom Band of Hope Union is formed
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Birth of her second child, Laura
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Friendship with George F. Root
Poets alive in 1855
164 poets
Poets in 1855
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