Historical Events In 1854

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

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

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

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 in the year 1854.  

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 on this day in history.  

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   Alphonse Allais, French author/humorist (Pass the Bile) on this day in history.  

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

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

Oct 23   On this day in history the Times give precise British positions in Krim  

Oct 24   In the year 1854 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   In the year 1854 the Charge of the Light Brigade takes place during the Crimean War.  

Oct 25   On this day in history the infamous 'Charge of the Light Brigade' takes place at Balaklava,during the Crimean War  

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) on this day in history.  

Nov 02   On this day in history cobblestone paving of Washington St between Dupont & Kearny starts  

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

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

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 in the year 1854.  

Nov 06   John Phillip Sousa, Wash DC, march king (Stars & Stripes Forever) on this day in history.  

Nov 06   In the year 1854 the birth of John Philip Sousa, American composer and conductor  

Nov 09   Franz Liszt's "Fest-Long," premieres on this day in history.  

Nov 09   On this day in history joseph Miroslav Weber, composer  

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

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

Nov 17   Louis HG Lyautey, French minister of Defense (1916-17) 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   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   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 in the year 1854.  

Feb 04   In the year 1854 carl Ludwig Cornelius Westenholz, composer, dies at 66  

Feb 17   In the year 1854 hugues F R de Lamennais, French priest/writer, dies at 71  

Mar 06   In the year 1854 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