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 on this day in history.   

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

Jul 01   In the year 1857 roger Connor, 1st baseman (NY Giants)   

Jul 02   Francesco Spetrino, composer in the year 1857.   

Jul 05   Clara Zetkin, German women's rights advocate/communist in the year 1857.   

Jul 08   Rudolf Dellinger, composer in the year 1857.   

Jul 09   Frederik II W, grandduke of Baden (1907-18) in the year 1857.   

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

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

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

Jul 16   Pierre-Jean de Baranger, poet, dies on this day in history.   

Jul 16   On this day in history sir Henry Havelock arrives at Battle of Cawnpore   

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

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   On this day in history joseph Napoleon Ney Moskova, composer, dies at 54   

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   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 in the year 1857.   

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

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

Aug 24   In the year 1857 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 in the year 1857.   

Sep 10   In the year 1857 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 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   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 in the year 1857.   

Jan 17   Wilhelm Kienzl, Austrian composer (Evangelimann) was born in the year 1857.   

Jan 20   In the year 1857 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   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 in the year 1857.   

Feb 10   David Thompson, Canadian explorer (b. 1770) died on this day in history.   

Feb 14   In the year 1857 johannes B van Bree, Dutch violinist/composer/conductor, dies at 56   

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