1856

1856 (MDCCCLVI) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1856th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 856th year of the 2nd millennium, the 56th year of the 19th century, and the 7th year of the 1850s decade. As of the start of 1856, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

1856 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1856 MDCCCLVI
Ab urbe condita	2609
Armenian calendar	1305 ԹՎ ՌՅԵ
Assyrian calendar	6606
Bahá'í calendar	12–13
Balinese saka calendar	1777–1778
Bengali calendar	1263
Berber calendar	2806
British Regnal year	19 Vict. 1 – 20 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar	2400
Burmese calendar	1218
Byzantine calendar	7364–7365
Chinese calendar	乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 4552 or 4492     — to — 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 4553 or 4493
Coptic calendar	1572–1573
Discordian calendar	3022
Ethiopian calendar	1848–1849
Hebrew calendar	5616–5617
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1912–1913
- Shaka Samvat	1777–1778
- Kali Yuga	4956–4957
Holocene calendar	11856
Igbo calendar	856–857
Iranian calendar	1234–1235
Islamic calendar	1272–1273
Japanese calendar	Ansei 3 (安政３年)
Javanese calendar	1784–1785
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4189
Minguo calendar	56 before ROC 民前56年
Nanakshahi calendar	388
Thai solar calendar	2398–2399
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Wood-Hare) 1982 or 1601 or 829     — to — མེ་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Fire-Dragon) 1983 or 1602 or 830

Births

• April 5 – Booker T. Washington, American inventor, educator, and writer (d. 1915)
• July 10 – Nikola Tesla, Croatian physicist (d. 1943)
• July 26 – George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer (d. 1950)
• August 3 – Alfred Deakin, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1919)
• December 28 – Woodrow Wilson, twenty-eighth President of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize recipient (d. 1924)