Page 3: Historical Events In 1854

Apr 01   On this day in history hard Times begins serialisation in Charles Dickens magazine, Household Words.   

Apr 04   On this day in history sailors and Marines from sailing sloop, Plymouth, protect U.S. citizens at Shanghai   

Apr 05   On this day in history vicente Goicoechea Errasti, composer   

Apr 06   In the year 1854 william Strickland US architect, dies   

Apr 06   On this day in history william Strickland, US architect, dies   

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

Apr 10   In the year 1854 jozef M T Orelio, baritone   

Apr 11   Hugh Massie, cricketer (Australian batsman of the 1880's) in the year 1854.   

Apr 11   Karl Adolph von Basedow, German DR (Ziekte van Basedow), dies at 55 in the year 1854.   

Apr 13   In the year 1854 richard T Ely, US economist (Hard Times)   

Apr 16   Franz Liszt's "Mazeppa," premieres in the year 1854.   

Apr 16   San Salvador destroyed by earthquake on this day in history.   

Apr 16   Steamer "Long Beach" sinks off Long Beach NY, 311 die on this day in history.   

Apr 17   In the year 1854 gottlob Wiedebein, composer, dies at 74   

Apr 18   In the year 1854 joseph Antoni Frantiszek Elsner, composer, dies at 84   

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

Apr 22   Henri-Marie Lafontaine, Belgium, international lawyer (Nobel 1913) on this day in history.   

Apr 24   Austria's Franz Joseph I marries Elisabeth A E "Sissi" in the year 1854.   

Apr 29   On this day in history henri Poincaré, France, mathematician/astronomer/philosopher   

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 in the year 1854.   

May 03   William Beale, composer, dies at 70 on this day in history.   

May 05   Antonio Smareglia, composer in the year 1854.   

May 05   On this day in history english pirate Plumridge robs along pro-English Finnish coast   

May 11   In the year 1854 john Blackham, cricketer (Australia's 1st wicketkeeper)   

May 13   Louis H Chrispijn, Dutch director (Lost & Found, Silvia Silombra) in the year 1854.   

May 18   In the year 1854 bernard Zweers, Dutch composer (To my Fatherland)   

May 24   Anthony Burns, slave, arrested by US Deputy marshals in Boston on this day in history.   

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   On this day in history georges Eekhoud, Belgian writer (Jeune Belgium)   

May 27   Marine Telegraph from Fort Point to San Fransisco completed in the year 1854.   

May 27   Marine Telegraph from Ft Point to SF completed in the year 1854.   

May 30   Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed Missouri Compromise opens north slavery in the year 1854.   

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Jan 01   On this day in history birth of james Frazer, Britain, anthropologist/author (The Golden Bough)   

Jan 06   Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft, fictional detective (via Arthur Conan Doyle) was born in the year 1854.   

Jan 09   On this day in history birth of jennie Jerome, American society beauty and mother of Winston Churchill (d. 1921)   

Jan 10   Peter Gast, composer was born on this day in history.   

Jan 18   In the year 1854 birth of thomas A Watson, needed by Bell, inventor assistant (Telephone)   

Jan 29   In the year 1854 birth of willem PC Knuttel, Dutch bibliographer/librarian   

Feb 09   On this day in history birth of aletta [Henriette] Jacobs, 1st Dutch female physician   

Feb 09   On this day in history birth of edward Carson, 1st Baron Carson, lawyer/leader (Irish Unionist Party)   

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

Jan 09   Filippo Traetta, [Philip Trajetta], Ital composer, dies at 77 on this day in history.   

Jan 18   On this day in history juda Turo, American philanthropist, dies   

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   On this day in history caspar GC Reinwardt, German/Dutch biologist, dies at 80   

Mar 11   On this day in history death of willard Richards, American religious leader (b. 1804)   

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