Historical Events In 1854

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

Oct 12   Lincoln University founded as Ashmun Institute in the year 1854.  

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   In the year 1854 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   On this day in history the Australian newspaper The Age, is published for the first time in Melbourne  

Oct 18   In the year 1854 bill Murdoch, cricketer (great pioneer of Australian Test cricket)  

Oct 20   On this day in history alphonse Allais, French author/humorist (Pass the Bile)  

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

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   In the year 1854 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   In the year 1854 august T C Kiehl, Dutch actor (Pearl of Zaandam)  

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

Oct 31   Georg A Erman, German Egyptologist (Grammar of Ancient Egypt) on this day in history.  

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   In the year 1854 lighthouse forms on Alcatraz Island  

Nov 05   ... Soimonov, Russian general, dies in battle of Inkermann on this day in history.  

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

Nov 06   In the year 1854 john Phillip Sousa, Wash DC, march king (Stars & Stripes Forever)  

Nov 06   The birth of John Philip Sousa, American composer and conductor on this day in history.  

Nov 09   Franz Liszt's "Fest-Long," premieres in the year 1854.  

Nov 09   Joseph Miroslav Weber, composer on this day in history.  

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

Nov 13   On this day in history george Whitfield Chadwick, Lowell Mass, composer (Judi Van Winke)  

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

Nov 15   On this day in history in Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is given the necessary royal concession.  

Nov 16   In the year 1854 jules van de Heuvel, Belgian lawyer/politician  

Nov 17   In the year 1854 louis HG Lyautey, French minister of Defense (1916-17)  

Nov 19   Alberich Zwyssig, composer, dies at 46 in the year 1854.  

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

Jan 29   On this day in history 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 in the year 1854.  

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   On this day in history carl Ludwig Cornelius Westenholz, composer, dies at 66  

Feb 17   Hugues F R de Lamennais, French priest/writer, dies at 71 in the year 1854.  

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