Historical Events In 1854

Oct 10   On this day in history uS Assay Office in NY City, NY opens  

Oct 12   Lincoln University founded as Ashmun Institute on this day in history.  

Oct 16   Karl J Kautsky, Austrian marxist/socialist on this day in history.  

Oct 16   The birth of Oscar Wilde, Irish born novelist and playwright in the year 1854.  

Oct 17   On this day in history miners burn down Eureka Hotel, Ballarat, after court dismisses murder charges against hotelier James Bentley, accused of kicking a young miner to death  

Oct 17   The Australian newspaper The Age, is published for the first time in Melbourne in the year 1854.  

Oct 18   Bill Murdoch, cricketer (great pioneer of Australian Test cricket) in the year 1854.  

Oct 20   Alphonse Allais, French author/humorist (Pass the Bile) on this day in history.  

Oct 21   Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses were sent to the Crimean War on this day in history.  

Oct 22   On this day in history j Gotthelf, writer, dies at 57  

Oct 23   On this day in history the Times give precise British positions in Krim  

Oct 24   On this day in history hendrik W Bakhuis Roozeboom, chemist (Heterogenen Gleichgewichte)  

Oct 25   Charge of Light Brigade (Battle of Balaklava, Crimean War), 409 die in the year 1854.  

Oct 25   On this day in history the Charge of the Light Brigade takes place during the Crimean War.  

Oct 25   The infamous 'Charge of the Light Brigade' takes place at Balaklava,during the Crimean War in the year 1854.  

Oct 26   August T C Kiehl, Dutch actor (Pearl of Zaandam) on this day in history.  

Oct 28   In the year 1854 james P Carrell, composer, dies at 67  

Oct 31   On this day in history georg A Erman, German Egyptologist (Grammar of Ancient Egypt)  

Nov 02   On this day in history cobblestone paving of Washington St between Dupont & Kearny starts  

Nov 04   On this day in history lighthouse established on Alcatraz Island  

Nov 04   Lighthouse forms on Alcatraz Island in the year 1854.  

Nov 05   In the year 1854 ... Soimonov, Russian general, dies in battle of Inkermann  

Nov 05   Crimean War: British & French defeat Russian force of 50,000 on this day in history.  

Nov 06   John Phillip Sousa, Wash DC, march king (Stars & Stripes Forever) in the year 1854.  

Nov 06   In the year 1854 the birth of John Philip Sousa, American composer and conductor  

Nov 09   Franz Liszt's "Fest-Long," premieres on this day in history.  

Nov 09   Joseph Miroslav Weber, composer on this day in history.  

Nov 13   On this day in history "New Era" sinks off NJ coast with loss of 300  

Nov 13   On this day in history george Whitfield Chadwick, Lowell Mass, composer (Judi Van Winke)  

Nov 13   On this day in history the ship "New Era" sinks off NJ coast with loss of 300  

Nov 15   In the year 1854 in Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is given the necessary royal concession.  

Nov 16   Jules van de Heuvel, Belgian lawyer/politician on this day in history.  

Nov 17   In the year 1854 louis HG Lyautey, French minister of Defense (1916-17)  

Nov 19   Alberich Zwyssig, composer, dies at 46 in the year 1854.  

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Jan 01   James Frazer, Britain, anthropologist/author (The Golden Bough) was born in the year 1854.  

Jan 06   In the year 1854 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   In the year 1854 birth of thomas A Watson, needed by Bell, inventor assistant (Telephone)  

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

Feb 09   On this day in history birth of aletta [Henriette] Jacobs, 1st Dutch female physician  

Feb 09   On this day in history birth of edward Carson, 1st Baron Carson, lawyer/leader (Irish Unionist Party)  

Jan 08   On this day in history death of william Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician (b. 1768)  

Jan 09   On this day in history filippo Traetta, [Philip Trajetta], Ital composer, dies at 77  

Jan 18   Juda Turo, American philanthropist, dies in the year 1854.  

Feb 04   Carl Ludwig Cornelius Westenholz, composer, dies at 66 on this day in history.  

Feb 17   Hugues F R de Lamennais, French priest/writer, dies at 71 on this day in history.  

Mar 06   On this day in history caspar GC Reinwardt, German/Dutch biologist, dies at 80  

Mar 11   Willard Richards, American religious leader (b. 1804) died in the year 1854.  

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