Page 3: Historical Events In 1854

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

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

Apr 05   On this day in history vicente Goicoechea Errasti, composer   

Apr 06   William Strickland US architect, dies on this day in history.   

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

Apr 09   In the year 1854 seaborn M Denson, composer   

Apr 10   In the year 1854 jozef M T Orelio, baritone   

Apr 11   Hugh Massie, cricketer (Australian batsman of the 1880's) on this day in history.   

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) on this day in history.   

Apr 16   Franz Liszt's "Mazeppa," premieres on this day in history.   

Apr 16   San Salvador destroyed by earthquake in the year 1854.   

Apr 16   In the year 1854 steamer "Long Beach" sinks off Long Beach NY, 311 die   

Apr 17   In the year 1854 gottlob Wiedebein, composer, dies at 74   

Apr 18   In the year 1854 joseph Antoni Frantiszek Elsner, composer, dies at 84   

Apr 21   Eusapia Palladino, Napolitanse with parergische phenomenons on this day in history.   

Apr 22   Henri-Marie Lafontaine, Belgium, international lawyer (Nobel 1913) in the year 1854.   

Apr 24   On this day in history austria's Franz Joseph I marries Elisabeth A E "Sissi"   

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   In the year 1854 amsterdam begins transferring drinking water out of the dunes   

May 03   William Beale, composer, dies at 70 in the year 1854.   

May 05   Antonio Smareglia, composer on this day in history.   

May 05   In the year 1854 english pirate Plumridge robs along pro-English Finnish coast   

May 11   John Blackham, cricketer (Australia's 1st wicketkeeper) in the year 1854.   

May 13   In the year 1854 louis H Chrispijn, Dutch director (Lost & Found, Silvia Silombra)   

May 18   In the year 1854 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   In the year 1854 lincoln University, Pennsylvania, first Black college in US forms by Prebyts   

May 24   In the year 1854 louis Mountbatten, admiral (WW I)   

May 27   Georges Eekhoud, Belgian writer (Jeune Belgium) on this day in history.   

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

May 27   Marine Telegraph from Ft Point to SF completed in the year 1854.   

May 30   Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed Missouri Compromise opens north slavery in the year 1854.   

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Jan 01   On this day in history birth of james Frazer, Britain, anthropologist/author (The Golden Bough)   

Jan 06   Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft, fictional detective (via Arthur Conan Doyle) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 09   Jennie Jerome, American society beauty and mother of Winston Churchill (d. 1921) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 10   Peter Gast, composer was born in the year 1854.   

Jan 18   On this day in history birth of thomas A Watson, needed by Bell, inventor assistant (Telephone)   

Jan 29   Willem PC Knuttel, Dutch bibliographer/librarian was born in the year 1854.   

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

Feb 09   Edward Carson, 1st Baron Carson, lawyer/leader (Irish Unionist Party) was born in the year 1854.   

Jan 08   William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician (b. 1768) died in the year 1854.   

Jan 09   In the year 1854 filippo Traetta, [Philip Trajetta], Ital composer, dies at 77   

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

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

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

Mar 06   In the year 1854 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   In the year 1854 william Strickland, US architect, dies