What Happened In May 1856 - Historical Events 1856 May

Historical Events for May, 1856

1st » The Province of Isabela (province) known as Isabela was created in the Philippines in honor of the Queen Isabela II of Spain.
21st » Lawrence, Kansas is Sacking of Lawrence named captured and burned by pro-slavery forces.
22nd » United States House of Representatives Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats United States Senate Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southern United States Souther
24th » John Brown (abolitionist) named John Brown and his men Pottawatomie Massacre known as kill five slavery supporters at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas.

4th » Pablo de Escandón, Mexican polo player (d. 1929)
6th » Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist (d. 1939)
6th » Robert Peary, American explorer (d. 1920)
15th » L. Frank Baum, American author (d. 1919)
15th » Matthias Zurbriggen, Swiss mountaineer (d. 1917)
21st » José Batlle y Ordóñez, Uruguayan politician, President of Uruguay (d. 1929)

1st » John Wilbur (Quaker minister) known as John Wilbur, American minister (b. 1774)
3rd » Adolphe Adam, French composer and critic (b. 1803)
12th » Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1786)