Page 6: Historical Events In 1854

Oct 10   On this day in history uS Assay Office in New York City, NY opens   

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

Oct 12   On this day in history lincoln University founded as Ashmun Institute   

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

Oct 16   In the year 1854 the birth of Oscar Wilde, Irish born novelist and playwright   

Oct 17   Miners burn down Eureka Hotel, Ballarat, after court dismisses murder charges against hotelier James Bentley, accused of kicking a young miner to death in the year 1854.   

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

Oct 18   In the year 1854 bill Murdoch, cricketer (great pioneer of Australian Test cricket)   

Oct 20   Alphonse Allais, French author/humorist (Pass the Bile) in the year 1854.   

Oct 21   Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses were sent to the Crimean War in the year 1854.   

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

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

Oct 24   In the year 1854 hendrik W Bakhuis Roozeboom, chemist (Heterogenen Gleichgewichte)   

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

Oct 25   On this day in history the Charge of the Light Brigade takes place during the Crimean War.   

Oct 25   The infamous 'Charge of the Light Brigade' takes place at Balaklava,during the Crimean War in the year 1854.   

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

Oct 28   James P Carrell, composer, dies at 67 in the year 1854.   

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

Nov 02   Cobblestone paving of Washington St between Dupont & Kearny starts on this day in history.   

Nov 04   In the year 1854 lighthouse established on Alcatraz Island   

Nov 04   In the year 1854 lighthouse forms on Alcatraz Island   

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

Nov 05   Crimean War: British & French defeat Russian force of 50,000 in the year 1854.   

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

Nov 06   In the year 1854 the birth of John Philip Sousa, American composer and conductor   

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   The ship "New Era" sinks off NJ coast with loss of 300 on this day in history.   

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

Nov 16   In the year 1854 jules van de Heuvel, Belgian lawyer/politician   

Nov 17   In the year 1854 louis HG Lyautey, French minister of Defense (1916-17)   

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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   On this day in history 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   Aletta [Henriette] Jacobs, 1st Dutch female physician was born in the year 1854.   

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

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

Jan 09   On this day in history filippo Traetta, [Philip Trajetta], Ital composer, dies at 77   

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

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   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