Historical Events In 1854

Apr 01   On this day in history 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   On this day in history william Strickland US architect, dies   

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

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

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

Apr 11   Hugh Massie, cricketer (Australian batsman of the 1880's) in the year 1854.   

Apr 11   In the year 1854 karl Adolph von Basedow, German DR (Ziekte van Basedow), dies at 55   

Apr 13   Richard T Ely, US economist (Hard Times) on this day in history.   

Apr 16   Franz Liszt's "Mazeppa," premieres in the year 1854.   

Apr 16   San Salvador destroyed by earthquake on this day in history.   

Apr 16   In the year 1854 steamer "Long Beach" sinks off Long Beach NY, 311 die   

Apr 17   On this day in history gottlob Wiedebein, composer, dies at 74   

Apr 18   Joseph Antoni Frantiszek Elsner, composer, dies at 84 on this day in history.   

Apr 21   Eusapia Palladino, Napolitanse with parergische phenomenons in the year 1854.   

Apr 22   Henri-Marie Lafontaine, Belgium, international lawyer (Nobel 1913) in the year 1854.   

Apr 24   Austria's Franz Joseph I marries Elisabeth A E "Sissi" on this day in history.   

Apr 29   On this day in history henri Poincaré, France, mathematician/astronomer/philosopher   

Apr 29   In the year 1854 the birth of Henri Poincare, French mathematician   

May 01   Amsterdam begins transferring drinking water out of the dunes on this day in history.   

May 03   On this day in history william Beale, composer, dies at 70   

May 05   Antonio Smareglia, composer on this day in history.   

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

May 11   In the year 1854 john Blackham, cricketer (Australia's 1st wicketkeeper)   

May 13   In the year 1854 louis H Chrispijn, Dutch director (Lost & Found, Silvia Silombra)   

May 18   Bernard Zweers, Dutch composer (To my Fatherland) in the year 1854.   

May 24   Anthony Burns, slave, arrested by US Deputy marshals in Boston in the year 1854.   

May 24   Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, first Black college in US forms by Prebyts in the year 1854.   

May 24   Louis Mountbatten, admiral (WW I) in the year 1854.   

May 27   On this day in history georges Eekhoud, Belgian writer (Jeune Belgium)   

May 27   On this day in history marine Telegraph from Fort Point to San Fransisco completed   

May 27   On this day in history marine Telegraph from Ft Point to SF completed   

May 30   Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed Missouri Compromise opens north slavery in the year 1854.   

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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   In the year 1854 birth of jennie Jerome, American society beauty and mother of Winston Churchill (d. 1921)   

Jan 10   In the year 1854 birth of peter Gast, composer   

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

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

Jan 08   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.   

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

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

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