Page 4: Historical Events In 1857

Jun 26   62 receive Victoria Cross in the year 1857.   

Jun 26   In the year 1857 off Cap Rouge Quebec, the Steamer Montreal catches fire and sinks in 15 minutes in the St. Lawrence; left Quebec City at 5 pm a day earlier; 253 lives lost, mostly Scottish immigrants on their way to the west.   

Jun 27   On this day in history h Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #45 Eugenia   

Jun 28   On this day in history joseph Fischhof, composer, dies at 53   

Jun 29   Battle at Chinhat (Indies rebel under Barkat Ahmed beat British) on this day in history.   

Jul 01   On this day in history roger Connor, 1st baseman (NY Giants)   

Jul 02   In the year 1857 francesco Spetrino, composer   

Jul 05   In the year 1857 clara Zetkin, German women's rights advocate/communist   

Jul 08   Rudolf Dellinger, composer on this day in history.   

Jul 09   On this day in history frederik II W, grandduke of Baden (1907-18)   

Jul 11   Alfred Binet, French child psychologist on this day in history.   

Jul 14   On this day in history maytag, inventor (washing machine)   

Jul 15   Carl Czerny, Austrian pianist/composer, dies at 66 in the year 1857.   

Jul 16   In the year 1857 pierre-Jean de Baranger, poet, dies   

Jul 16   Sir Henry Havelock arrives at Battle of Cawnpore on this day in history.   

Jul 18   Louis Faidherbe, French governor of Senegal, arrives to relieve French forces at Kayes, effectively ending El Hajj Umar Tall's war against the French in the year 1857.   

Jul 21   A S C Wallis, [Adele SC von Antal-Opzoomer], Dutch writer on this day in history.   

Jul 23   French [M J Francois] Erens, lawyer/literary (Pursue Years) on this day in history.   

Jul 24   Henrik Pontoppidan, Denmark, writer (Promised Country, Nobel 1917) in the year 1857.   

Jul 25   On this day in history joseph Napoleon Ney Moskova, composer, dies at 54   

Jul 27   On this day in history ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge, orientalist/museum curator   

Jul 29   On this day in history charles LJL Bonaparte, Corsican/French prince of Canino, dies at 54   

Jul 30   Thorstein Veblen, US, economist (Theory of the Leisure Class-1899) on this day in history.   

Aug 01   In the year 1857 charles Turner, engraver, dies   

Aug 08   Cecile Chaminade, composer on this day in history.   

Aug 10   In the year 1857 john Wilson Croker, politician   

Aug 12   On this day in history william Daniel Conybeare, geologist, dies   

Aug 21   In the year 1857 first book published by an Australian female author Gertrude the Emigrant, by Caroline Atkinson.   

Aug 21   First book published by an Australian female author: Gertrude the Emigrant, by Caroline Atkinson in the year 1857.   

Aug 21   In one of Australia's worst maritime disasters, 121 people drown when the Dunbar sinks off Sydney Heads; on this day in history.   

Aug 24   The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in U.S. history in the year 1857.   

Aug 24   In the year 1857 thirty-one people die when ship Lady Bird collides with another vessel off the State of Victoria in Australia   

Sep 03   On this day in history m Heinrich C Lichtenstein, German zoologist/explorer, dies at 77   

Sep 10   James E Keeler, US, astronomer (rings of Saturn) in the year 1857.   

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Jan 02   On this day in history birth of frederick Opper, cartoonist (Maud, Alphonse & Gaston)   

Jan 02   In the year 1857 birth of martha Carey Thomas, educator/president (Bryn Mawr College)   

Jan 06   Hugh Mahon, Irish-born Australian politician (d. 1931) was born in the year 1857.   

Jan 06   William E. Russell, 37th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896) was born in the year 1857.   

Jan 09   On this day in history birth of henry B Fuller, American writer (Under the Skylights)   

Jan 11   Fred[erick J] Archer, English jockey (won 5 Derbys) was born in the year 1857.   

Jan 17   Eugene Augustin Lauste, developer (1st sound-on-film recording) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 17   On this day in history birth of wilhelm Kienzl, Austrian composer (Evangelimann)   

Jan 20   On this day in history edward Francis Fitzwilliam, composer, dies at 32   

Jan 27   In the year 1857 dorothea von Benckendorff, Baltic monarch of Lieven, dies at 72   

Feb 07   Félix PBOG, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister of War, dies at 65 in the year 1857.   

Feb 09   On this day in history death of dionysios Solomos, Greek poet of the Greek national anthem (b. 1798)   

Feb 10   In the year 1857 death of david Thompson, Canadian explorer (b. 1770)   

Feb 14   On this day in history johannes B van Bree, Dutch violinist/composer/conductor, dies at 56   

Feb 15   Mikhail Glinka, composer, dies on this day in history.   

Feb 16   In the year 1857 auguste-Gaspard-Louis Desnoyers, French engraver, dies at 77