Page 4: Historical Events In 1857

Jun 26   On this day in history 62 receive Victoria Cross   

Jun 26   In the year 1857 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 in the year 1857.   

Jun 28   Joseph Fischhof, composer, dies at 53 on this day in history.   

Jun 29   Battle at Chinhat (Indies rebel under Barkat Ahmed beat British) in the year 1857.   

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

Jul 02   In the year 1857 francesco Spetrino, composer   

Jul 05   Clara Zetkin, German women's rights advocate/communist on this day in history.   

Jul 08   In the year 1857 rudolf Dellinger, composer   

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

Jul 11   Alfred Binet, French child psychologist on this day in history.   

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

Jul 15   On this day in history carl Czerny, Austrian pianist/composer, dies at 66   

Jul 16   In the year 1857 pierre-Jean de Baranger, poet, dies   

Jul 16   Sir Henry Havelock arrives at Battle of Cawnpore in the year 1857.   

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   A S C Wallis, [Adele SC von Antal-Opzoomer], Dutch writer in the year 1857.   

Jul 23   French [M J Francois] Erens, lawyer/literary (Pursue Years) on this day in history.   

Jul 24   In the year 1857 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   In the year 1857 ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge, orientalist/museum curator   

Jul 29   In the year 1857 charles LJL Bonaparte, Corsican/French prince of Canino, dies at 54   

Jul 30   Thorstein Veblen, US, economist (Theory of the Leisure Class-1899) on this day in history.   

Aug 01   In the year 1857 charles Turner, engraver, dies   

Aug 08   On this day in history cecile Chaminade, composer   

Aug 10   In the year 1857 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 in the year 1857.   

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

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 on this day in history.   

Sep 03   In the year 1857 m Heinrich C Lichtenstein, German zoologist/explorer, dies at 77   

Sep 10   On this day in history james E Keeler, US, astronomer (rings of Saturn)   

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Jan 02   On this day in history birth of frederick Opper, cartoonist (Maud, Alphonse & Gaston)   

Jan 02   Martha Carey Thomas, educator/president (Bryn Mawr College) was born on this day in history.   

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

Jan 06   William E. Russell, 37th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896) was born in the year 1857.   

Jan 09   Henry B Fuller, American writer (Under the Skylights) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 11   On this day in history birth of fred[erick J] Archer, English jockey (won 5 Derbys)   

Jan 17   In the year 1857 birth of eugene Augustin Lauste, developer (1st sound-on-film recording)   

Jan 17   Wilhelm Kienzl, Austrian composer (Evangelimann) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 20   Edward Francis Fitzwilliam, composer, dies at 32 in the year 1857.   

Jan 27   Dorothea von Benckendorff, Baltic monarch of Lieven, dies at 72 on this day in history.   

Feb 07   On this day in history félix PBOG, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister of War, dies at 65   

Feb 09   Dionysios Solomos, Greek poet of the Greek national anthem (b. 1798) died in the year 1857.   

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   Mikhail Glinka, composer, dies in the year 1857.   

Feb 16   Auguste-Gaspard-Louis Desnoyers, French engraver, dies at 77 in the year 1857.