6 events found for 1856
Australian labour movement: Stonemasons and building workers on building sites around Melbourne march from the Universit
Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-slavery forces
Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina severely beats Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a cane in the h
John Brown and his men kill five slavery supporters at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas
A group of 194 Pitcairn Islanders, descendants of the mutineers of HMS Bounty, arrives at Norfolk Island, commencing the
Five hundred Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa for the Mormon Trail