Page 6: Historical Events In 1854

Oct 10   US Assay Office in New York City, NY opens on this day in history.   

Oct 10   US Assay Office in NY City, NY opens in the year 1854.   

Oct 12   In the year 1854 lincoln University founded as Ashmun Institute   

Oct 16   Karl J Kautsky, Austrian marxist/socialist in the year 1854.   

Oct 16   In the year 1854 the birth of Oscar Wilde, Irish born novelist and playwright   

Oct 17   On this day in history miners burn down Eureka Hotel, Ballarat, after court dismisses murder charges against hotelier James Bentley, accused of kicking a young miner to death   

Oct 17   The Australian newspaper The Age, is published for the first time in Melbourne in the year 1854.   

Oct 18   Bill Murdoch, cricketer (great pioneer of Australian Test cricket) in the year 1854.   

Oct 20   Alphonse Allais, French author/humorist (Pass the Bile) in the year 1854.   

Oct 21   Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses were sent to the Crimean War in the year 1854.   

Oct 22   J Gotthelf, writer, dies at 57 in the year 1854.   

Oct 23   In the year 1854 the Times give precise British positions in Krim   

Oct 24   On this day in history hendrik W Bakhuis Roozeboom, chemist (Heterogenen Gleichgewichte)   

Oct 25   On this day in history charge of Light Brigade (Battle of Balaklava, Crimean War), 409 die   

Oct 25   On this day in history the Charge of the Light Brigade takes place during the Crimean War.   

Oct 25   The infamous 'Charge of the Light Brigade' takes place at Balaklava,during the Crimean War in the year 1854.   

Oct 26   August T C Kiehl, Dutch actor (Pearl of Zaandam) on this day in history.   

Oct 28   James P Carrell, composer, dies at 67 in the year 1854.   

Oct 31   Georg A Erman, German Egyptologist (Grammar of Ancient Egypt) in the year 1854.   

Nov 02   Cobblestone paving of Washington St between Dupont & Kearny starts in the year 1854.   

Nov 04   Lighthouse established on Alcatraz Island on this day in history.   

Nov 04   Lighthouse forms on Alcatraz Island in the year 1854.   

Nov 05   In the year 1854 ... Soimonov, Russian general, dies in battle of Inkermann   

Nov 05   On this day in history crimean War: British & French defeat Russian force of 50,000   

Nov 06   On this day in history john Phillip Sousa, Wash DC, march king (Stars & Stripes Forever)   

Nov 06   The birth of John Philip Sousa, American composer and conductor in the year 1854.   

Nov 09   On this day in history franz Liszt's "Fest-Long," premieres   

Nov 09   In the year 1854 joseph Miroslav Weber, composer   

Nov 13   On this day in history "New Era" sinks off NJ coast with loss of 300   

Nov 13   In the year 1854 george Whitfield Chadwick, Lowell Mass, composer (Judi Van Winke)   

Nov 13   The ship "New Era" sinks off NJ coast with loss of 300 in the year 1854.   

Nov 15   In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is given the necessary royal concession in the year 1854.   

Nov 16   On this day in history jules van de Heuvel, Belgian lawyer/politician   

Nov 17   Louis HG Lyautey, French minister of Defense (1916-17) 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   On this day in history birth of sherlock Holmes, Mycroft, fictional detective (via Arthur Conan Doyle)   

Jan 09   Jennie Jerome, American society beauty and mother of Winston Churchill (d. 1921) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 10   Peter Gast, composer was born in the year 1854.   

Jan 18   In the year 1854 birth of thomas A Watson, needed by Bell, inventor assistant (Telephone)   

Jan 29   On this day in history birth of willem PC Knuttel, Dutch bibliographer/librarian   

Feb 09   In the year 1854 birth of aletta [Henriette] Jacobs, 1st Dutch female physician   

Feb 09   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.   

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   Hugues F R de Lamennais, French priest/writer, dies at 71 in the year 1854.   

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   In the year 1854 william Strickland, US architect, dies