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   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) 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   On this day in history richard T Ely, US economist (Hard Times)   

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

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   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   On this day in history eusapia Palladino, Napolitanse with parergische phenomenons   

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   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   William Beale, composer, dies at 70 on this day in history.   

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) in the year 1854.   

May 18   On this day in history 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) in the year 1854.   

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

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 on this day in history.   

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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   On this day in history 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   Thomas A Watson, needed by Bell, inventor assistant (Telephone) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 29   In the year 1854 birth of willem PC Knuttel, Dutch bibliographer/librarian   

Feb 09   On this day in history birth of aletta [Henriette] Jacobs, 1st Dutch female physician   

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

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   Caspar GC Reinwardt, German/Dutch biologist, dies at 80 on this day in history.   

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