Page 7: Historical Events In 1854
Friday, 31 October 2025
Nov 19   On this day in history alberich Zwyssig, composer, dies at 46  
 
 

Nov 21   In the year 1854 benedict XV, [Giacomo PGB marques della Chiessa], 258th Pope (1914-22)  
 
 

Nov 25   On this day in history john G Lockhart, [scorpion], English biographer, dies at 60  
 
 

Nov 26   On this day in history matthijs Siegenbeek, literature (Defeated German Spelling), dies  
 
 

Nov 27   Aloys L earl von Aehrenthal, Austrian minister of Foreign affairs in the year 1854.  
 
 

Nov 28   In the year 1854 dutch army stops Chinese uprising in Borneo  
 
 

Nov 28   On this day in history gottlieb J Haberlandt, Hungarians/German botanist  
 
 

Dec 01   Armed Diggers prepare for confrontation with troops on Eureka Hill, Victcoria in the year 1854.  
 
 

Dec 03   Eureka Stockade: In what is claimed by many to be the birth of Australian democracy, more than 20 goldminers at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences in the year 1854.  
 
 

Dec 05   Aaron Allen of Boston patents folding theater chair in the year 1854.  
 
 

Dec 08   In the year 1854 pope Pius IX proclaims Immaculate Conception, makes Mary, free of Original Sin  
 
 

Dec 09   In the year 1854 lord Tennyson's poem, "Charge of the Light Brigade," published  
 
 

Dec 09   On this day in history pekka Hannikainen, composer  
 
 

Dec 15   In the year 1854 1st street-cleaning machine in US 1st used in Philadelphia  
 
 

Dec 15   First street-cleaning machine in US first used in Philadelphia in the year 1854.  
 
 

Dec 15   Philadelphia residents were amazed as the first street cleaning machine was put into operation in the year 1854.  
 
 

Dec 19   On this day in history 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. First 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 on this day in history.  
 
 

Dec 26   In the year 1854 wood-pulp paper 1st exhibited, Buffalo  
 
 

Dec 26   On this day in history wood-pulp paper first exhibited, Buffalo  
 
 

Dec 30   Pennsylvania Rock Oil Co, 1st in US, incorporated in NYC on this day in history.  
 
 

Dec 30   Pennsylvania Rock Oil Co, first in US, incorporated in NYC on this day in history.  
 
 

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