Historical Events In 1857

Jun 26   62 receive Victoria Cross on this day in history.  

Jun 26   Off Cap Rouge Quebec, the Steamer Montreal catches fire and sinks in 15 minutes in the St. Lawrence; left Quebec City at 5 pm a day earlier; 253 lives lost, mostly Scottish immigrants on their way to the west on this day in history.  

Jun 27   In the year 1857 h Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #45 Eugenia  

Jun 28   On this day in history joseph Fischhof, composer, dies at 53  

Jun 29   On this day in history battle at Chinhat (Indies rebel under Barkat Ahmed beat British)  

Jul 01   Roger Connor, 1st baseman (NY Giants) in the year 1857.  

Jul 02   Francesco Spetrino, composer on this day in history.  

Jul 05   On this day in history clara Zetkin, German women's rights advocate/communist  

Jul 08   On this day in history rudolf Dellinger, composer  

Jul 09   Frederik II W, grandduke of Baden (1907-18) on this day in history.  

Jul 11   On this day in history alfred Binet, French child psychologist  

Jul 14   On this day in history maytag, inventor (washing machine)  

Jul 15   In the year 1857 carl Czerny, Austrian pianist/composer, dies at 66  

Jul 16   Pierre-Jean de Baranger, poet, dies on this day in history.  

Jul 16   On this day in history sir Henry Havelock arrives at Battle of Cawnpore  

Jul 18   On this day in history louis Faidherbe, French governor of Senegal, arrives to relieve French forces at Kayes, effectively ending El Hajj Umar Tall's war against the French.  

Jul 21   A S C Wallis, [Adele SC von Antal-Opzoomer], Dutch writer on this day in history.  

Jul 23   In the year 1857 french [M J Francois] Erens, lawyer/literary (Pursue Years)  

Jul 24   In the year 1857 henrik Pontoppidan, Denmark, writer (Promised Country, Nobel 1917)  

Jul 25   On this day in history joseph Napoleon Ney Moskova, composer, dies at 54  

Jul 27   Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge, orientalist/museum curator in the year 1857.  

Jul 29   On this day in history charles LJL Bonaparte, Corsican/French prince of Canino, dies at 54  

Jul 30   Thorstein Veblen, US, economist (Theory of the Leisure Class-1899) in the year 1857.  

Aug 01   Charles Turner, engraver, dies on this day in history.  

Aug 08   In the year 1857 cecile Chaminade, composer  

Aug 10   On this day in history john Wilson Croker, politician  

Aug 12   William Daniel Conybeare, geologist, dies on this day in history.  

Aug 21   In the year 1857 first book published by an Australian female author Gertrude the Emigrant, by Caroline Atkinson.  

Aug 21   In the year 1857 first book published by an Australian female author: Gertrude the Emigrant, by Caroline Atkinson.  

Aug 21   In the year 1857 in one of Australia's worst maritime disasters, 121 people drown when the Dunbar sinks off Sydney Heads;  

Aug 24   The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in U.S. history on this day in history.  

Aug 24   On this day in history thirty-one people die when ship Lady Bird collides with another vessel off the State of Victoria in Australia  

Sep 03   In the year 1857 m Heinrich C Lichtenstein, German zoologist/explorer, dies at 77  

Sep 10   On this day in history james E Keeler, US, astronomer (rings of Saturn)  

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Jan 02   In the year 1857 birth of frederick Opper, cartoonist (Maud, Alphonse & Gaston)  

Jan 02   Martha Carey Thomas, educator/president (Bryn Mawr College) was born in the year 1857.  

Jan 06   On this day in history birth of hugh Mahon, Irish-born Australian politician (d. 1931)  

Jan 06   William E. Russell, 37th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896) was born in the year 1857.  

Jan 09   Henry B Fuller, American writer (Under the Skylights) was born in the year 1857.  

Jan 11   Fred[erick J] Archer, English jockey (won 5 Derbys) was born in the year 1857.  

Jan 17   On this day in history birth of eugene Augustin Lauste, developer (1st sound-on-film recording)  

Jan 17   In the year 1857 birth of wilhelm Kienzl, Austrian composer (Evangelimann)  

Jan 20   Edward Francis Fitzwilliam, composer, dies at 32 on this day in history.  

Jan 27   Dorothea von Benckendorff, Baltic monarch of Lieven, dies at 72 on this day in history.  

Feb 07   Félix PBOG, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister of War, dies at 65 on this day in history.  

Feb 09   Dionysios Solomos, Greek poet of the Greek national anthem (b. 1798) died on this day in history.  

Feb 10   In the year 1857 death of david Thompson, Canadian explorer (b. 1770)  

Feb 14   Johannes B van Bree, Dutch violinist/composer/conductor, dies at 56 in the year 1857.  

Feb 15   On this day in history mikhail Glinka, composer, dies  

Feb 16   Auguste-Gaspard-Louis Desnoyers, French engraver, dies at 77 on this day in history.