Page 3: Historical Events In 1854

Apr 01   Hard Times begins serialisation in Charles Dickens magazine, Household Words on this day in history.   

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   In the year 1854 william Strickland US architect, dies   

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

Apr 09   In the year 1854 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 on this day in history.   

Apr 13   Richard T Ely, US economist (Hard Times) on this day in history.   

Apr 16   Franz Liszt's "Mazeppa," premieres in the year 1854.   

Apr 16   In the year 1854 san Salvador destroyed by earthquake   

Apr 16   Steamer "Long Beach" sinks off Long Beach NY, 311 die in the year 1854.   

Apr 17   Gottlob Wiedebein, composer, dies at 74 in the year 1854.   

Apr 18   Joseph Antoni Frantiszek Elsner, composer, dies at 84 in the year 1854.   

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

Apr 22   On this day in history henri-Marie Lafontaine, Belgium, international lawyer (Nobel 1913)   

Apr 24   Austria's Franz Joseph I marries Elisabeth A E "Sissi" in the year 1854.   

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   Amsterdam begins transferring drinking water out of the dunes in the year 1854.   

May 03   On this day in history william Beale, composer, dies at 70   

May 05   On this day in history antonio Smareglia, composer   

May 05   On this day in history english pirate Plumridge robs along pro-English Finnish coast   

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   Bernard Zweers, Dutch composer (To my Fatherland) in the year 1854.   

May 24   On this day in history anthony Burns, slave, arrested by US Deputy marshals in Boston   

May 24   Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, first Black college in US forms by Prebyts on this day in history.   

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

May 27   In the year 1854 georges Eekhoud, Belgian writer (Jeune Belgium)   

May 27   In the year 1854 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   Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed Missouri Compromise opens north slavery 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   Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft, fictional detective (via Arthur Conan Doyle) was born in the year 1854.   

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   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   In the year 1854 birth of aletta [Henriette] Jacobs, 1st Dutch female physician   

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

Jan 18   On this day in history juda Turo, American philanthropist, dies   

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