Page 3: Historical Events In 1854

Apr 01   In the year 1854 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   William Strickland US architect, dies on this day in history.   

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

Apr 09   Seaborn M Denson, composer in the year 1854.   

Apr 10   Jozef M T Orelio, baritone on this day in history.   

Apr 11   In the year 1854 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   On this day in history richard T Ely, US economist (Hard Times)   

Apr 16   In the year 1854 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   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   In the year 1854 eusapia Palladino, Napolitanse with parergische phenomenons   

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" on this day in history.   

Apr 29   Henri Poincaré, France, mathematician/astronomer/philosopher in the year 1854.   

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

May 05   Antonio Smareglia, composer in the year 1854.   

May 05   In the year 1854 english pirate Plumridge robs along pro-English Finnish coast   

May 11   John Blackham, cricketer (Australia's 1st wicketkeeper) in the year 1854.   

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   Louis Mountbatten, admiral (WW I) on this day in history.   

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

May 27   In the year 1854 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   On this day in history birth of james Frazer, Britain, anthropologist/author (The Golden Bough)   

Jan 06   On this day in history birth of sherlock Holmes, Mycroft, fictional detective (via Arthur Conan Doyle)   

Jan 09   Jennie Jerome, American society beauty and mother of Winston Churchill (d. 1921) was born in the year 1854.   

Jan 10   Peter Gast, composer was born in the year 1854.   

Jan 18   On this day in history birth of thomas A Watson, needed by Bell, inventor assistant (Telephone)   

Jan 29   On this day in history birth of willem PC Knuttel, Dutch bibliographer/librarian   

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 in the year 1854.   

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 in the year 1854.   

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

Feb 04   Carl Ludwig Cornelius Westenholz, composer, dies at 66 on this day in history.   

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 on this day in history.   

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