Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855). The Great Gold Robbery is made from a train between London Bridge and Folkestone in England. May 17 – Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, is dedicated (as the Jews' Hospital) in New York City; it opens to patients on June 5. May 22 – The province of Victoria is separated administratively from New South Wales. June 15 – Stamp duty is removed from British newspapers, creating mass media in the United Kingdom. June 29 – The Daily Telegraph newspaper begins publication in London. July–September July – Bank of Toronto incorporated in Canada (in 1955 it will merge with The Dominion Bank to become Toronto-Dominion Bank). July 1 – The Quinault Treaty, in which the Quinault and Quileute tribes cede their land to the United States, is signed. July 2 – The Kansas territorial legislature convenes in Pawnee, and begins passing proslavery laws. July 4 – Walt Whitman's poetry collection Leaves of Grass is published in Brooklyn. July 16 – The Australian Colonies are granted self-governing status by the United Kingdom. August 1 – Monte Rosa, the second-highest summit in the Alps, is first ascended. September 3 – The last Bartholomew Fair is held in London, England. September 9 (August 28 O.S.) – Crimean War: Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) – Sevastopol falls to French and British troops. September 27 – Alfred Tennyson reads from his new book Maud and other poems, at a social gathering in the home of Robert and Elizabeth Browning in London; Dante Gabriel Rossetti makes a sketch of him doing so. September 29 – The Port of Iloilo in the Philippines is opened to international trade, by Queen Isabel II of Spain. This year also the ports of Sual (modern-day Pangasinan) and Zamboanga City are opened to international trade. October–December October 17 – Henry Bessemer files his patent in the United Kingdom for the Bessemer process of steelmaking. October 24 – Van Diemen's Land is officially renamed Tasmania. November 17 – Scottish missionary explorer David Livingstone becomes the first European to see Victoria Falls, in modern-day Zambia–Zimbabwe. November 21 – Large-scale Bleeding Kansas violence begins, with events leading to the 'Wakarusa War' between antislavery and proslavery forces. November 10 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's fictional poem The Song of Hiawatha is published in Boston. December 11 – Ignacio Comonfort (1812-1863) becomes President of Mexico. December 22 – The Metropolitan Board of Works