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 in the year 1854.  

Apr 05   In the year 1854 vicente Goicoechea Errasti, composer  

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

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

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

Apr 10   Jozef M T Orelio, baritone in the year 1854.  

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) in the year 1854.  

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

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   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   Henri Poincaré, France, mathematician/astronomer/philosopher on this day in history.  

Apr 29   On this day in history 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   Antonio Smareglia, composer on this day in history.  

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

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

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

May 18   Bernard Zweers, Dutch composer (To my Fatherland) on this day in history.  

May 24   In the year 1854 anthony Burns, slave, arrested by US Deputy marshals in Boston  

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   Marine Telegraph from Fort Point to San Fransisco completed in the year 1854.  

May 27   Marine Telegraph from Ft Point to SF completed on this day in history.  

May 30   On this day in history 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   Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft, fictional detective (via Arthur Conan Doyle) was born in the year 1854.  

Jan 09   Jennie Jerome, American society beauty and mother of Winston Churchill (d. 1921) was born in the year 1854.  

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

Feb 09   On this day in history 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   William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician (b. 1768) died in the year 1854.  

Jan 09   Filippo Traetta, [Philip Trajetta], Ital composer, dies at 77 on this day in history.  

Jan 18   Juda Turo, American philanthropist, dies on this day in history.  

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

Feb 17   In the year 1854 hugues F R de Lamennais, French priest/writer, dies at 71  

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

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

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