Page 6: Historical Events In 1854

Oct 10   US Assay Office in New York City, NY opens in the year 1854.   

Oct 10   US Assay Office in NY City, NY opens on this day in history.   

Oct 12   Lincoln University founded as Ashmun Institute on this day in history.   

Oct 16   On this day in history karl J Kautsky, Austrian marxist/socialist   

Oct 16   The birth of Oscar Wilde, Irish born novelist and playwright in the year 1854.   

Oct 17   On this day in history miners burn down Eureka Hotel, Ballarat, after court dismisses murder charges against hotelier James Bentley, accused of kicking a young miner to death   

Oct 17   In the year 1854 the Australian newspaper The Age, is published for the first time in Melbourne   

Oct 18   On this day in history bill Murdoch, cricketer (great pioneer of Australian Test cricket)   

Oct 20   In the year 1854 alphonse Allais, French author/humorist (Pass the Bile)   

Oct 21   On this day in history florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses were sent to the Crimean War.   

Oct 22   J Gotthelf, writer, dies at 57 on this day in history.   

Oct 23   In the year 1854 the Times give precise British positions in Krim   

Oct 24   Hendrik W Bakhuis Roozeboom, chemist (Heterogenen Gleichgewichte) on this day in history.   

Oct 25   Charge of Light Brigade (Battle of Balaklava, Crimean War), 409 die in the year 1854.   

Oct 25   The Charge of the Light Brigade takes place during the Crimean War in the year 1854.   

Oct 25   The infamous 'Charge of the Light Brigade' takes place at Balaklava,during the Crimean War on this day in history.   

Oct 26   In the year 1854 august T C Kiehl, Dutch actor (Pearl of Zaandam)   

Oct 28   In the year 1854 james P Carrell, composer, dies at 67   

Oct 31   On this day in history georg A Erman, German Egyptologist (Grammar of Ancient Egypt)   

Nov 02   In the year 1854 cobblestone paving of Washington St between Dupont & Kearny starts   

Nov 04   Lighthouse established on Alcatraz Island in the year 1854.   

Nov 04   Lighthouse forms on Alcatraz Island in the year 1854.   

Nov 05   ... Soimonov, Russian general, dies in battle of Inkermann in the year 1854.   

Nov 05   In the year 1854 crimean War: British & French defeat Russian force of 50,000   

Nov 06   On this day in history john Phillip Sousa, Wash DC, march king (Stars & Stripes Forever)   

Nov 06   The birth of John Philip Sousa, American composer and conductor on this day in history.   

Nov 09   On this day in history franz Liszt's "Fest-Long," premieres   

Nov 09   On this day in history joseph Miroslav Weber, composer   

Nov 13   In the year 1854 "New Era" sinks off NJ coast with loss of 300   

Nov 13   George Whitfield Chadwick, Lowell Mass, composer (Judi Van Winke) in the year 1854.   

Nov 13   In the year 1854 the ship "New Era" sinks off NJ coast with loss of 300   

Nov 15   On this day in history in Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is given the necessary royal concession.   

Nov 16   On this day in history jules van de Heuvel, Belgian lawyer/politician   

Nov 17   Louis HG Lyautey, French minister of Defense (1916-17) on this day in history.   

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Jan 01   James Frazer, Britain, anthropologist/author (The Golden Bough) was born on this day in history.   

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   On this day in history birth of peter Gast, composer   

Jan 18   Thomas A Watson, needed by Bell, inventor assistant (Telephone) was born in the year 1854.   

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

Jan 08   In the year 1854 death of william Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician (b. 1768)   

Jan 09   Filippo Traetta, [Philip Trajetta], Ital composer, dies at 77 in the year 1854.   

Jan 18   In the year 1854 juda Turo, American philanthropist, dies   

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

Feb 17   On this day in history hugues F R de Lamennais, French priest/writer, dies at 71   

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

Mar 11   In the year 1854 death of willard Richards, American religious leader (b. 1804)   

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