Page 7: Historical Events In 1854
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
Nov 25 John G Lockhart, [scorpion], English biographer, dies at 60 


Nov 26 Matthijs Siegenbeek, literature (Defeated German Spelling), dies. 


Nov 27 Aloys L earl von Aehrenthal, Austrian minister of Foreign affairs 


Nov 28 Dutch army formally ends Chinese uprising in Borneo 


Nov 28 Gottlieb J Haberlandt, Hungarians/German botanist 


Dec 01 Armed Diggers prepare for confrontation with troops on Eureka Hill, Victcoria. 


Dec 03 Eureka Stockade: In what is claimed by many to be Birth of Australian democracy, more than 20 goldminers at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences 


Dec 05 Aaron Allen of Boston patents folding theater chair 


Dec 08 Pope Pius IX proclaims Immaculate Conception, makes Mary, free of Original Sin. 


Dec 09 Lord Tennyson's poem, "Charge of the Light Brigade," published. 


Dec 09 Pekka Hannikainen, composer. 


Dec 15 1st street-cleaning machine in US 1st used in Philadelphia. 


Dec 15 inaugural street-cleaning machine in US inaugural used in Philadelphia 


Dec 15 Philadelphia residents were amazed as the inaugural street cleaning machine was put into operation. 


Dec 19 Allen Wilson of Conn patents sewing machine to sew curving seams. 


Dec 25 Opening of the Bytown and Prescott Railway between Prescott and Bytown (now Ottawa), 54 miles. inaugural rail service to what is now Canada's Capital. Bytown was renamed Ottawa in 1855 and the railway became the Ottawa and Prescott Railway Company, now part of Canadian Pacific. 


Dec 26 Wood-pulp paper 1st exhibited, Buffalo. 


Dec 26 Wood-pulp paper inaugural exhibited, Buffalo. 


Dec 30 Pennsylvania Rock Oil Co, 1st in US, incorporated in NYC 


Dec 30 Pennsylvania Rock Oil Co, inaugural in US, incorporated in NYC. 


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