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   Vicente Goicoechea Errasti, composer on this day in history.   

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

Apr 06   In the year 1854 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) in the year 1854.   

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) in the year 1854.   

Apr 16   On this day in history franz Liszt's "Mazeppa," premieres   

Apr 16   On this day in history san Salvador destroyed by earthquake   

Apr 16   On this day in history steamer "Long Beach" sinks off Long Beach NY, 311 die   

Apr 17   Gottlob Wiedebein, composer, dies at 74 on this day in history.   

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

Apr 21   In the year 1854 eusapia Palladino, Napolitanse with parergische phenomenons   

Apr 22   In the year 1854 henri-Marie Lafontaine, Belgium, international lawyer (Nobel 1913)   

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

Apr 29   Henri Poincaré, France, mathematician/astronomer/philosopher on this day in history.   

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   In the year 1854 william Beale, composer, dies at 70   

May 05   On this day in history antonio Smareglia, composer   

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

May 11   In the year 1854 john Blackham, cricketer (Australia's 1st wicketkeeper)   

May 13   On this day in history louis H Chrispijn, Dutch director (Lost & Found, Silvia Silombra)   

May 18   Bernard Zweers, Dutch composer (To my Fatherland) in the year 1854.   

May 24   Anthony Burns, slave, arrested by US Deputy marshals in Boston in the year 1854.   

May 24   On this day in history lincoln University, Pennsylvania, first Black college in US forms by Prebyts   

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

May 27   Georges Eekhoud, Belgian writer (Jeune Belgium) in the year 1854.   

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   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 in the year 1854.   

Jan 09   In the year 1854 birth of jennie Jerome, American society beauty and mother of Winston Churchill (d. 1921)   

Jan 10   In the year 1854 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   In the year 1854 birth of willem PC Knuttel, Dutch bibliographer/librarian   

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 on this day in history.   

Jan 08   In the year 1854 death of william Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician (b. 1768)   

Jan 09   Filippo Traetta, [Philip Trajetta], Ital composer, dies at 77 in the year 1854.   

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

Mar 11   On this day in history death of willard Richards, American religious leader (b. 1804)   

Apr 06   William Strickland, US architect, dies in the year 1854.