Historical Events In 1857

Jun 26   62 receive Victoria Cross on this day in history.  

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

Jun 29   In the year 1857 battle at Chinhat (Indies rebel under Barkat Ahmed beat British)  

Jul 01   Roger Connor, 1st baseman (NY Giants) in the year 1857.  

Jul 02   On this day in history francesco Spetrino, composer  

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

Jul 08   Rudolf Dellinger, composer on this day in history.  

Jul 09   Frederik II W, grandduke of Baden (1907-18) on this day in history.  

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

Jul 14   On this day in history maytag, inventor (washing machine)  

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

Jul 16   In the year 1857 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   On this day in history a S C Wallis, [Adele SC von Antal-Opzoomer], Dutch writer  

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

Jul 24   Henrik Pontoppidan, Denmark, writer (Promised Country, Nobel 1917) in the year 1857.  

Jul 25   In the year 1857 joseph Napoleon Ney Moskova, composer, dies at 54  

Jul 27   Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge, orientalist/museum curator in the year 1857.  

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

Jul 30   On this day in history thorstein Veblen, US, economist (Theory of the Leisure Class-1899)  

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

Aug 08   On this day in history cecile Chaminade, composer  

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

Aug 12   On this day in history william Daniel Conybeare, geologist, dies  

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

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

Aug 21   In the year 1857 in one of Australia's worst maritime disasters, 121 people drown when the Dunbar sinks off Sydney Heads;  

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   In the year 1857 birth of frederick Opper, cartoonist (Maud, Alphonse & Gaston)  

Jan 02   Martha Carey Thomas, educator/president (Bryn Mawr College) was born in the year 1857.  

Jan 06   Hugh Mahon, Irish-born Australian politician (d. 1931) was born on this day in history.  

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

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   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   On this day in history edward Francis Fitzwilliam, composer, dies at 32  

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

Feb 07   Félix PBOG, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister of War, dies at 65 on this day in history.  

Feb 09   Dionysios Solomos, Greek poet of the Greek national anthem (b. 1798) died on this day in history.  

Feb 10   David Thompson, Canadian explorer (b. 1770) died in the year 1857.  

Feb 14   Johannes B van Bree, Dutch violinist/composer/conductor, dies at 56 on this day in history.  

Feb 15   Mikhail Glinka, composer, dies in the year 1857.  

Feb 16   In the year 1857 auguste-Gaspard-Louis Desnoyers, French engraver, dies at 77