Page 4: Historical Events In 1857

Jun 26   62 receive Victoria Cross in the year 1857.   

Jun 26   Off Cap Rouge Quebec, the Steamer Montreal catches fire and sinks in 15 minutes in the St. Lawrence; left Quebec City at 5 pm a day earlier; 253 lives lost, mostly Scottish immigrants on their way to the west on this day in history.   

Jun 27   H Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #45 Eugenia on this day in history.   

Jun 28   In the year 1857 joseph Fischhof, composer, dies at 53   

Jun 29   On this day in history battle at Chinhat (Indies rebel under Barkat Ahmed beat British)   

Jul 01   On this day in history roger Connor, 1st baseman (NY Giants)   

Jul 02   In the year 1857 francesco Spetrino, composer   

Jul 05   On this day in history clara Zetkin, German women's rights advocate/communist   

Jul 08   Rudolf Dellinger, composer in the year 1857.   

Jul 09   In the year 1857 frederik II W, grandduke of Baden (1907-18)   

Jul 11   On this day in history alfred Binet, French child psychologist   

Jul 14   In the year 1857 maytag, inventor (washing machine)   

Jul 15   In the year 1857 carl Czerny, Austrian pianist/composer, dies at 66   

Jul 16   On this day in history pierre-Jean de Baranger, poet, dies   

Jul 16   In the year 1857 sir Henry Havelock arrives at Battle of Cawnpore   

Jul 18   Louis Faidherbe, French governor of Senegal, arrives to relieve French forces at Kayes, effectively ending El Hajj Umar Tall's war against the French in the year 1857.   

Jul 21   In the year 1857 a S C Wallis, [Adele SC von Antal-Opzoomer], Dutch writer   

Jul 23   In the year 1857 french [M J Francois] Erens, lawyer/literary (Pursue Years)   

Jul 24   On this day in history henrik Pontoppidan, Denmark, writer (Promised Country, Nobel 1917)   

Jul 25   Joseph Napoleon Ney Moskova, composer, dies at 54 on this day in history.   

Jul 27   On this day in history ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge, orientalist/museum curator   

Jul 29   Charles LJL Bonaparte, Corsican/French prince of Canino, dies at 54 on this day in history.   

Jul 30   In the year 1857 thorstein Veblen, US, economist (Theory of the Leisure Class-1899)   

Aug 01   Charles Turner, engraver, dies in the year 1857.   

Aug 08   In the year 1857 cecile Chaminade, composer   

Aug 10   On this day in history john Wilson Croker, politician   

Aug 12   William Daniel Conybeare, geologist, dies on this day in history.   

Aug 21   First book published by an Australian female author Gertrude the Emigrant, by Caroline Atkinson on this day in history.   

Aug 21   In the year 1857 first book published by an Australian female author: Gertrude the Emigrant, by Caroline Atkinson.   

Aug 21   In one of Australia's worst maritime disasters, 121 people drown when the Dunbar sinks off Sydney Heads; on this day in history.   

Aug 24   On this day in history the Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in U.S. history.   

Aug 24   Thirty-one people die when ship Lady Bird collides with another vessel off the State of Victoria in Australia in the year 1857.   

Sep 03   M Heinrich C Lichtenstein, German zoologist/explorer, dies at 77 on this day in history.   

Sep 10   James E Keeler, US, astronomer (rings of Saturn) in the year 1857.   

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Jan 02   Frederick Opper, cartoonist (Maud, Alphonse & Gaston) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 02   In the year 1857 birth of martha Carey Thomas, educator/president (Bryn Mawr College)   

Jan 06   On this day in history birth of hugh Mahon, Irish-born Australian politician (d. 1931)   

Jan 06   On this day in history birth of william E. Russell, 37th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896)   

Jan 09   In the year 1857 birth of henry B Fuller, American writer (Under the Skylights)   

Jan 11   Fred[erick J] Archer, English jockey (won 5 Derbys) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 17   Eugene Augustin Lauste, developer (1st sound-on-film recording) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 17   In the year 1857 birth of wilhelm Kienzl, Austrian composer (Evangelimann)   

Jan 20   Edward Francis Fitzwilliam, composer, dies at 32 on this day in history.   

Jan 27   On this day in history dorothea von Benckendorff, Baltic monarch of Lieven, dies at 72   

Feb 07   In the year 1857 félix PBOG, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister of War, dies at 65   

Feb 09   In the year 1857 death of dionysios Solomos, Greek poet of the Greek national anthem (b. 1798)   

Feb 10   On this day in history death of david Thompson, Canadian explorer (b. 1770)   

Feb 14   On this day in history johannes B van Bree, Dutch violinist/composer/conductor, dies at 56   

Feb 15   In the year 1857 mikhail Glinka, composer, dies   

Feb 16   Auguste-Gaspard-Louis Desnoyers, French engraver, dies at 77 on this day in history.