Page 3: Historical Events In 1854

Apr 01   Hard Times begins serialisation in Charles Dickens magazine, Household Words in the year 1854.   

Apr 04   In the year 1854 sailors and Marines from sailing sloop, Plymouth, protect U.S. citizens at Shanghai   

Apr 05   Vicente Goicoechea Errasti, composer on this day in history.   

Apr 06   William Strickland US architect, dies on this day in history.   

Apr 06   William Strickland, US architect, dies on this day in history.   

Apr 09   On this day in history seaborn M Denson, composer   

Apr 10   Jozef M T Orelio, baritone in the year 1854.   

Apr 11   On this day in history hugh Massie, cricketer (Australian batsman of the 1880's)   

Apr 11   On this day in history karl Adolph von Basedow, German DR (Ziekte van Basedow), dies at 55   

Apr 13   Richard T Ely, US economist (Hard Times) on this day in history.   

Apr 16   Franz Liszt's "Mazeppa," premieres on this day in history.   

Apr 16   In the year 1854 san Salvador destroyed by earthquake   

Apr 16   On this day in history steamer "Long Beach" sinks off Long Beach NY, 311 die   

Apr 17   On this day in history gottlob Wiedebein, composer, dies at 74   

Apr 18   On this day in history joseph Antoni Frantiszek Elsner, composer, dies at 84   

Apr 21   Eusapia Palladino, Napolitanse with parergische phenomenons on this day in history.   

Apr 22   On this day in history henri-Marie Lafontaine, Belgium, international lawyer (Nobel 1913)   

Apr 24   In the year 1854 austria's Franz Joseph I marries Elisabeth A E "Sissi"   

Apr 29   Henri Poincaré, France, mathematician/astronomer/philosopher on this day in history.   

Apr 29   The birth of Henri Poincare, French mathematician on this day in history.   

May 01   Amsterdam begins transferring drinking water out of the dunes on this day in history.   

May 03   On this day in history william Beale, composer, dies at 70   

May 05   On this day in history antonio Smareglia, composer   

May 05   English pirate Plumridge robs along pro-English Finnish coast on this day in history.   

May 11   On this day in history john Blackham, cricketer (Australia's 1st wicketkeeper)   

May 13   On this day in history louis H Chrispijn, Dutch director (Lost & Found, Silvia Silombra)   

May 18   Bernard Zweers, Dutch composer (To my Fatherland) on this day in history.   

May 24   In the year 1854 anthony Burns, slave, arrested by US Deputy marshals in Boston   

May 24   On this day in history lincoln University, Pennsylvania, first Black college in US forms by Prebyts   

May 24   On this day in history louis Mountbatten, admiral (WW I)   

May 27   In the year 1854 georges Eekhoud, Belgian writer (Jeune Belgium)   

May 27   On this day in history marine Telegraph from Fort Point to San Fransisco completed   

May 27   In the year 1854 marine Telegraph from Ft Point to SF completed   

May 30   On this day in history kansas-Nebraska Act repealed Missouri Compromise opens north slavery   

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Jan 01   In the year 1854 birth of james Frazer, Britain, anthropologist/author (The Golden Bough)   

Jan 06   Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft, fictional detective (via Arthur Conan Doyle) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 09   In the year 1854 birth of jennie Jerome, American society beauty and mother of Winston Churchill (d. 1921)   

Jan 10   On this day in history birth of peter Gast, composer   

Jan 18   Thomas A Watson, needed by Bell, inventor assistant (Telephone) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 29   Willem PC Knuttel, Dutch bibliographer/librarian was born in the year 1854.   

Feb 09   In the year 1854 birth of aletta [Henriette] Jacobs, 1st Dutch female physician   

Feb 09   Edward Carson, 1st Baron Carson, lawyer/leader (Irish Unionist Party) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 08   William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician (b. 1768) died in the year 1854.   

Jan 09   In the year 1854 filippo Traetta, [Philip Trajetta], Ital composer, dies at 77   

Jan 18   Juda Turo, American philanthropist, dies in the year 1854.   

Feb 04   In the year 1854 carl Ludwig Cornelius Westenholz, composer, dies at 66   

Feb 17   Hugues F R de Lamennais, French priest/writer, dies at 71 on this day in history.   

Mar 06   Caspar GC Reinwardt, German/Dutch biologist, dies at 80 in the year 1854.   

Mar 11   Willard Richards, American religious leader (b. 1804) died in the year 1854.   

Apr 06   William Strickland, US architect, dies in the year 1854.