Historical Events In 1854

Apr 01   Hard Times begins serialisation in Charles Dickens magazine, Household Words in the year 1854.  

Apr 04   Sailors and Marines from sailing sloop, Plymouth, protect U.S. citizens at Shanghai on this day in history.  

Apr 05   Vicente Goicoechea Errasti, composer on this day in history.  

Apr 06   On this day in history william Strickland US architect, dies  

Apr 06   William Strickland, US architect, dies in the year 1854.  

Apr 09   On this day in history seaborn M Denson, composer  

Apr 10   Jozef M T Orelio, baritone on this day in history.  

Apr 11   On this day in history hugh Massie, cricketer (Australian batsman of the 1880's)  

Apr 11   Karl Adolph von Basedow, German DR (Ziekte van Basedow), dies at 55 in the year 1854.  

Apr 13   Richard T Ely, US economist (Hard Times) in the year 1854.  

Apr 16   On this day in history franz Liszt's "Mazeppa," premieres  

Apr 16   On this day in history san Salvador destroyed by earthquake  

Apr 16   Steamer "Long Beach" sinks off Long Beach NY, 311 die on this day in history.  

Apr 17   Gottlob Wiedebein, composer, dies at 74 on this day in history.  

Apr 18   On this day in history joseph Antoni Frantiszek Elsner, composer, dies at 84  

Apr 21   Eusapia Palladino, Napolitanse with parergische phenomenons in the year 1854.  

Apr 22   Henri-Marie Lafontaine, Belgium, international lawyer (Nobel 1913) on this day in history.  

Apr 24   Austria's Franz Joseph I marries Elisabeth A E "Sissi" on this day in history.  

Apr 29   On this day in history henri Poincaré, France, mathematician/astronomer/philosopher  

Apr 29   In the year 1854 the birth of Henri Poincare, French mathematician  

May 01   On this day in history amsterdam begins transferring drinking water out of the dunes  

May 03   In the year 1854 william Beale, composer, dies at 70  

May 05   On this day in history antonio Smareglia, composer  

May 05   English pirate Plumridge robs along pro-English Finnish coast on this day in history.  

May 11   In the year 1854 john Blackham, cricketer (Australia's 1st wicketkeeper)  

May 13   Louis H Chrispijn, Dutch director (Lost & Found, Silvia Silombra) in the year 1854.  

May 18   On this day in history bernard Zweers, Dutch composer (To my Fatherland)  

May 24   Anthony Burns, slave, arrested by US Deputy marshals in Boston on this day in history.  

May 24   Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, first Black college in US forms by Prebyts in the year 1854.  

May 24   On this day in history louis Mountbatten, admiral (WW I)  

May 27   On this day in history georges Eekhoud, Belgian writer (Jeune Belgium)  

May 27   On this day in history marine Telegraph from Fort Point to San Fransisco completed  

May 27   On this day in history marine Telegraph from Ft Point to SF completed  

May 30   In the year 1854 kansas-Nebraska Act repealed Missouri Compromise opens north slavery  

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Jan 01   In the year 1854 birth of james Frazer, Britain, anthropologist/author (The Golden Bough)  

Jan 06   On this day in history birth of sherlock Holmes, Mycroft, fictional detective (via Arthur Conan Doyle)  

Jan 09   On this day in history birth of jennie Jerome, American society beauty and mother of Winston Churchill (d. 1921)  

Jan 10   On this day in history birth of peter Gast, composer  

Jan 18   Thomas A Watson, needed by Bell, inventor assistant (Telephone) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 29   In the year 1854 birth of willem PC Knuttel, Dutch bibliographer/librarian  

Feb 09   Aletta [Henriette] Jacobs, 1st Dutch female physician was born on this day in history.  

Feb 09   In the year 1854 birth of edward Carson, 1st Baron Carson, lawyer/leader (Irish Unionist Party)  

Jan 08   William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician (b. 1768) died on this day in history.  

Jan 09   Filippo Traetta, [Philip Trajetta], Ital composer, dies at 77 in the year 1854.  

Jan 18   In the year 1854 juda Turo, American philanthropist, dies  

Feb 04   In the year 1854 carl Ludwig Cornelius Westenholz, composer, dies at 66  

Feb 17   On this day in history hugues F R de Lamennais, French priest/writer, dies at 71  

Mar 06   Caspar GC Reinwardt, German/Dutch biologist, dies at 80 on this day in history.  

Mar 11   In the year 1854 death of willard Richards, American religious leader (b. 1804)  

Apr 06   On this day in history william Strickland, US architect, dies