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| 1855 |
| | | Lord Palmerston heads the coalition government in Britain after Lord Aberdeen loses a vote of confidence on his conduct of the Crimean War | |
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| 1855 |
| | | Holman Hunt's The Scapegoat combines realism and symbolism in an extreme example of Pre-Raphaelite characteristics | |
|  | Holman Hunt, The Scapegoat (detail)
Lady Lever Art Gallery
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| 1855 |
| | | The Panama Railroad company completes a line between the Atlantic and the Pacific, providing America's first transcontinental link | |
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| 1855 |
| | | The first edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass is published anonymously, at his own expense, and contains just 12 poems | |
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| 1855 |
| | | David Livingstone, moving down the Zambezi, comes upon the Victoria Falls | |
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| 1855 |
| | | John Everett Millais marries Effie Gray, previously the wife of John Ruskin | |
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| 1855 |
| | | English artist William Simpson sends sketches from the Crimea which achieve rapid circulation in Britain as tinted lithographs | |
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| 1855 |
| | | Liberal leaders Juan Alvarez and Ignacio Comonfort launch a political programme in Mexico that becomes know simply as 'the Reform' | |
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| c. 1855 |
| | | The Christian Socialism of F.D. Maurice and others is mocked by its opponents as 'muscular Christianity' | |
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| 1855 |
| | | An Ethiopian baron usurps the throne and proclaims himself emperor, as Theodore II | |
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