Page 4: Historical Events In 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.   

Jun 27   H Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #45 Eugenia.   

Jun 28   Joseph Fischhof, composer, dies at 53.   

Jun 29   Battle at Chinhat (Indies rebel under Barkat Ahmed beat British).   

Jul 01   Roger Connor, 1st baseman (NY Giants)   

Jul 02   Francesco Spetrino, composer.   

Jul 05   Clara Zetkin, German women's rights advocate/communist.   

Jul 08   Rudolf Dellinger, composer.   

Jul 09   Frederik II W, grandduke of Baden (1907-18)   

Jul 11   Alfred Binet, French child psychologist.   

Jul 14   Maytag, inventor (washing machine).   

Jul 15   Carl Czerny, Austrian pianist/composer, dies at 66.   

Jul 16   Pierre-Jean de Baranger, poet, dies.   

Jul 16   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   

Jul 21   A S C Wallis, [Adele SC von Antal-Opzoomer], Dutch writer   

Jul 23   French [M J Francois] Erens, lawyer/literary (Pursue Years).   

Jul 24   Henrik Pontoppidan, Denmark, writer (Promised Country, Nobel 1917).   

Jul 25   Joseph Napoleon Ney Moskova, composer, dies at 54.   

Jul 27   Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge, orientalist/museum curator   

Jul 29   Charles LJL Bonaparte, Corsican/French prince of Canino, dies at 54.   

Jul 30   Thorstein Veblen, US, economist (Theory of the Leisure Class-1899).   

Aug 01   Charles Turner, engraver, dies   

Aug 08   Cecile Chaminade, composer.   

Aug 10   John Wilson Croker, politician   

Aug 12   William Daniel Conybeare, geologist, dies.   

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

Aug 21   inaugural book published by an Australian female author Gertrude the Emigrant, by Caroline Atkinson.   

Aug 21   inaugural book published by an Australian female author: Gertrude the Emigrant, by Caroline Atkinson.   

Aug 24   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.   

Sep 03   M Heinrich C Lichtenstein, German zoologist/explorer, dies at 77.   

Sep 10   James E Keeler, US, astronomer (rings of Saturn)   

Sep 11   Mountain Meadows Massacre, Mormons dressed as Indians murder 120 colonists in Utah.   

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Jan 02   Frederick opper: Cartoonist (maud, alphonse & gaston)   

Jan 02   Martha carey thomas: Educator/president (bryn mawr college)   

Jan 06   Hugh mahon: Irish-born australian politician   

Jan 06   William e. russell: 37th governor of massachusetts   

Jan 09   Henry b fuller: American writer (under the skylights)   

Jan 11   Fred[erick j] archer: English jockey (won 5 derbys)   

Jan 17   Eugene augustin lauste: Developer (1st sound-on-film recording)   

Jan 17   Wilhelm kienzl: Austrian composer (evangelimann)   

Jan 20   Edward francis fitzwilliam: Composer,    

Jan 27   Dorothea von benckendorff: Baltic monarch of lieven,   

Feb 07   Félix pbog: Earl of merode, belgian minister of war,    

Feb 09   Dionysios solomos: Greek poet of the greek national anthem (b. 1798)   

Feb 10   David thompson: Canadian explorer (b. 1770)   

Feb 14   Johannes b van bree: Dutch violinist/composer/conductor,    

Feb 15   Mikhail glinka: Composer,   

Feb 16   Auguste-gaspard-louis desnoyers: French engraver,