Historical Events In 1854

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

Apr 04   In the year 1854 sailors and Marines from sailing sloop, Plymouth, protect U.S. citizens at Shanghai   

Apr 05   In the year 1854 vicente Goicoechea Errasti, composer   

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

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

Apr 09   Seaborn M Denson, composer in the year 1854.   

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

Apr 11   In the year 1854 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   On this day in history richard T Ely, US economist (Hard Times)   

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

Apr 16   In the year 1854 san Salvador destroyed by earthquake   

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

Apr 17   On this day in history gottlob Wiedebein, composer, dies at 74   

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

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

Apr 22   Henri-Marie Lafontaine, Belgium, international lawyer (Nobel 1913) on this day in history.   

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 in the year 1854.   

Apr 29   The birth of Henri Poincare, French mathematician on this day in history.   

May 01   On this day in history 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   Louis H Chrispijn, Dutch director (Lost & Found, Silvia Silombra) on this day in history.   

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

May 24   Louis Mountbatten, admiral (WW I) on this day in history.   

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

May 27   In the year 1854 marine Telegraph from Fort Point to San Fransisco completed   

May 27   In the year 1854 marine Telegraph from Ft Point to SF completed   

May 30   Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed Missouri Compromise opens north slavery on this day in history.   

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Jan 01   James Frazer, Britain, anthropologist/author (The Golden Bough) was born on this day in history.   

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   Peter Gast, composer was born on this day in history.   

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 in the year 1854.   

Jan 08   On this day in history death of william Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician (b. 1768)   

Jan 09   On this day in history filippo Traetta, [Philip Trajetta], Ital composer, dies at 77   

Jan 18   In the year 1854 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   In the year 1854 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   On this day in history william Strickland, US architect, dies