1856+G

January 24 - U.S. President Franklin Pierce declares the new Free-State Topeka government in //Bleeding Kansas // to be in rebellion.

This caused a rift between the people who disagreed on the merits of Bleeding Kansas.

May 24 - Pottawatomie Massacre : A group of followers of radical abolitionist John Brown kill 5 homesteaders in Franklin County, Kansas .

November 4 - U.S. presidential election, 1856 : Democrat James Buchanan defeats former President Millard Fillmore , representing a coalition of "<span class="wiki_link_ext">Know-Nothings " and <span class="wiki_link_ext">Whigs, and <span class="wiki_link_ext">John C. Frémont of the fledgling <span class="wiki_link_ext">Republican Party , to become the 15th <span class="wiki_link_ext">President of the United States.

<span class="wiki_link_ext">November 17 - <span class="wiki_link_ext">American Old West : On the <span class="wiki_link_ext">Sonoita River in present-day southern <span class="wiki_link_ext">Arizona, the <span class="wiki_link_ext">United States Army establishes <span class="wiki_link_ext">Fort Buchanan in order to help control new land acquired in the <span class="wiki_link_ext">Gadsden Purchase.