Page 4: Historical Events In 1857

Jun 26   On this day in history 62 receive Victoria Cross   

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 in the year 1857.   

Jun 27   H Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #45 Eugenia in the year 1857.   

Jun 28   On this day in history 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   Roger Connor, 1st baseman (NY Giants) in the year 1857.   

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   On this day in history rudolf Dellinger, composer   

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

Jul 11   In the year 1857 alfred Binet, French child psychologist   

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

Jul 15   Carl Czerny, Austrian pianist/composer, dies at 66 in the year 1857.   

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

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

Jul 18   In the year 1857 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   On this day in history 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   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   Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge, orientalist/museum curator on this day in history.   

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

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

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

Aug 08   In the year 1857 cecile Chaminade, composer   

Aug 10   John Wilson Croker, politician in the year 1857.   

Aug 12   William Daniel Conybeare, geologist, dies in the year 1857.   

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

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

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   The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in U.S. history on this day in 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   On this day in history 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   Frederick Opper, cartoonist (Maud, Alphonse & Gaston) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 02   On this day in history birth of martha Carey Thomas, educator/president (Bryn Mawr College)   

Jan 06   Hugh Mahon, Irish-born Australian politician (d. 1931) was born in the year 1857.   

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   In the year 1857 birth of fred[erick J] Archer, English jockey (won 5 Derbys)   

Jan 17   On this day in history birth of eugene Augustin Lauste, developer (1st sound-on-film recording)   

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

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 in the year 1857.   

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

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

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