Page 6: Historical Events In 1854

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

Oct 10   On this day in history uS Assay Office in NY City, NY opens   

Oct 12   Lincoln University founded as Ashmun Institute on this day in history.   

Oct 16   On this day in history karl J Kautsky, Austrian marxist/socialist   

Oct 16   The birth of Oscar Wilde, Irish born novelist and playwright on this day in history.   

Oct 17   Miners burn down Eureka Hotel, Ballarat, after court dismisses murder charges against hotelier James Bentley, accused of kicking a young miner to death in the year 1854.   

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

Oct 18   Bill Murdoch, cricketer (great pioneer of Australian Test cricket) on this day in history.   

Oct 20   In the year 1854 alphonse Allais, French author/humorist (Pass the Bile)   

Oct 21   On this day in history florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses were sent to the Crimean War.   

Oct 22   In the year 1854 j Gotthelf, writer, dies at 57   

Oct 23   The Times give precise British positions in Krim on this day in history.   

Oct 24   Hendrik W Bakhuis Roozeboom, chemist (Heterogenen Gleichgewichte) on this day in history.   

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) in the year 1854.   

Oct 28   In the year 1854 james P Carrell, composer, dies at 67   

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 on this day in history.   

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   On this day in history ... Soimonov, Russian general, dies in battle of Inkermann   

Nov 05   Crimean War: British & French defeat Russian force of 50,000 on this day in history.   

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

Nov 06   On this day in history the birth of John Philip Sousa, American composer and conductor   

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

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   George Whitfield Chadwick, Lowell Mass, composer (Judi Van Winke) on this day in history.   

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

Nov 15   In the year 1854 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)   

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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   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 in the year 1854.   

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   On this day in history 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 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 in the year 1854.   

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

Mar 06   On this day in history caspar GC Reinwardt, German/Dutch biologist, dies at 80   

Mar 11   Willard Richards, American religious leader (b. 1804) died on this day in history.   

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