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   In the year 1854 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   In the year 1854 seaborn M Denson, composer   

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

Apr 11   In the year 1854 hugh Massie, cricketer (Australian batsman of the 1880's)   

Apr 11   In the year 1854 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   On this day in history franz Liszt's "Mazeppa," premieres   

Apr 16   In the year 1854 san Salvador destroyed by earthquake   

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

Apr 17   Gottlob Wiedebein, composer, dies at 74 on this day in history.   

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

Apr 21   In the year 1854 eusapia Palladino, Napolitanse with parergische phenomenons   

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

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

Apr 29   In the year 1854 henri Poincaré, France, mathematician/astronomer/philosopher   

Apr 29   On this day in history the birth of Henri Poincare, French mathematician   

May 01   Amsterdam begins transferring drinking water out of the dunes in the year 1854.   

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

May 05   Antonio Smareglia, composer on this day in history.   

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

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) in the year 1854.   

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

May 24   Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, first Black college in US forms by Prebyts on this day in history.   

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

May 27   Georges Eekhoud, Belgian writer (Jeune Belgium) on this day in history.   

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   In the year 1854 birth of sherlock Holmes, Mycroft, fictional detective (via Arthur Conan Doyle)   

Jan 09   In the year 1854 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   Thomas A Watson, needed by Bell, inventor assistant (Telephone) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 29   On this day in history 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   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 on this day in history.   

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

Jan 18   Juda Turo, American philanthropist, dies on this day in history.   

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 in the year 1854.   

Mar 06   In the year 1854 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   On this day in history william Strickland, US architect, dies