Page 4: Historical Events In 1857

Jun 26   In the year 1857 62 receive Victoria Cross   

Jun 26   On this day in history 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   H Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #45 Eugenia in the year 1857.   

Jun 28   In the year 1857 joseph Fischhof, composer, dies at 53   

Jun 29   In the year 1857 battle at Chinhat (Indies rebel under Barkat Ahmed beat British)   

Jul 01   In the year 1857 roger Connor, 1st baseman (NY Giants)   

Jul 02   On this day in history francesco Spetrino, composer   

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

Jul 08   On this day in history rudolf Dellinger, composer   

Jul 09   In the year 1857 frederik II W, grandduke of Baden (1907-18)   

Jul 11   On this day in history alfred Binet, French child psychologist   

Jul 14   In the year 1857 maytag, inventor (washing machine)   

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

Jul 16   On this day in history pierre-Jean de Baranger, poet, dies   

Jul 16   In the year 1857 sir Henry Havelock arrives at Battle of Cawnpore   

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 on this day in history.   

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   On this day in history henrik Pontoppidan, Denmark, writer (Promised Country, Nobel 1917)   

Jul 25   In the year 1857 joseph Napoleon Ney Moskova, composer, dies at 54   

Jul 27   Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge, orientalist/museum curator on this day in history.   

Jul 29   Charles LJL Bonaparte, Corsican/French prince of Canino, dies at 54 in the year 1857.   

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

Aug 01   Charles Turner, engraver, dies in the year 1857.   

Aug 08   In the year 1857 cecile Chaminade, composer   

Aug 10   On this day in history john Wilson Croker, politician   

Aug 12   In the year 1857 william Daniel Conybeare, geologist, dies   

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

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

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

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

Sep 10   In the year 1857 james E Keeler, US, astronomer (rings of Saturn)   

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Jan 02   Frederick Opper, cartoonist (Maud, Alphonse & Gaston) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 02   Martha Carey Thomas, educator/president (Bryn Mawr College) was born in the year 1857.   

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 on this day in history.   

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   On this day in history birth of eugene Augustin Lauste, developer (1st sound-on-film recording)   

Jan 17   Wilhelm Kienzl, Austrian composer (Evangelimann) was born in the year 1857.   

Jan 20   Edward Francis Fitzwilliam, composer, dies at 32 on this day in history.   

Jan 27   On this day in history dorothea von Benckendorff, Baltic monarch of Lieven, dies at 72   

Feb 07   On this day in history félix PBOG, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister of War, dies at 65   

Feb 09   Dionysios Solomos, Greek poet of the Greek national anthem (b. 1798) died on this day in history.   

Feb 10   David Thompson, Canadian explorer (b. 1770) died in the year 1857.   

Feb 14   Johannes B van Bree, Dutch violinist/composer/conductor, dies at 56 on this day in history.   

Feb 15   Mikhail Glinka, composer, dies in the year 1857.   

Feb 16   On this day in history auguste-Gaspard-Louis Desnoyers, French engraver, dies at 77