The following events occurred in Germany in the year 1855.
Incumbents King of Bavaria – Maximilian II King of Hanover – George V King of Prussia – Frederick William IV King of Saxony – John of Saxony
Events The cocaine alkaloid is first isolated by German chemist Friedrich Gaedcke
Births February 17 – Otto Liman von Sanders, German general (d. 1929) February 24 – Johannes von Eben, German general (d. 1924 ) May 9 – Julius Röntgen, German-Dutch classical composer (d. 1932) June 28 – Theodor Reuss, German occultist (d. 1923) July 26 – Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist (d. 1936) August 25 – Hugo von Pohl, German admiral (d. 1916) August 27 – Hugo von Kathen, German general (d. 1932) September 9 – Houston Stewart Chamberlain, British-born German writer (d. 1927) October 10 – Eduard von Capelle, German admiral (d. 1931)
Deaths
February 23 – Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (b. 1777)
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