Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1856.
Readers are reminded that this table is a work in progress and may be amended or added to at any time.
| Month | Day | Event | Source of Information | Notes |
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| [Spring] | Tylor meets Henry Christy in Havana, Cuba and travels with him to Mexico | Tylor in Alma Mater, ‘ The Gifford Lecturer’, 22 January 1890; DNB | ||
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| December | No day | Phillips is given a grant of £200 to catalogue and arrange the geological collections then held in the Clarendon Building | Ovenell, 1986: 213 | Ovenell refers to it as the Clarendon Geological Museum |
| Unspecified | John Phillips made Reader in Geology | DNB entry | ||
| Unspecified | Tylor visits Cuba and Mexico | Relational Museum timeline |
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