Page 3: Historical Events In 1854

Apr 01   Hard Times begins serialisation in Charles Dickens magazine, Household Words in the year 1854.   

Apr 04   In the year 1854 sailors and Marines from sailing sloop, Plymouth, protect U.S. citizens at Shanghai   

Apr 05   On this day in history vicente Goicoechea Errasti, composer   

Apr 06   On this day in history william Strickland US architect, dies   

Apr 06   On this day in history william Strickland, US architect, dies   

Apr 09   Seaborn M Denson, composer on this day in history.   

Apr 10   Jozef M T Orelio, baritone in the year 1854.   

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

Apr 11   Karl Adolph von Basedow, German DR (Ziekte van Basedow), dies at 55 on this day in history.   

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

Apr 16   On this day in history franz Liszt's "Mazeppa," premieres   

Apr 16   In the year 1854 san Salvador destroyed by earthquake   

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

Apr 17   Gottlob Wiedebein, composer, dies at 74 in the year 1854.   

Apr 18   Joseph Antoni Frantiszek Elsner, composer, dies at 84 in the year 1854.   

Apr 21   On this day in history eusapia Palladino, Napolitanse with parergische phenomenons   

Apr 22   In the year 1854 henri-Marie Lafontaine, Belgium, international lawyer (Nobel 1913)   

Apr 24   Austria's Franz Joseph I marries Elisabeth A E "Sissi" in the year 1854.   

Apr 29   In the year 1854 henri Poincaré, France, mathematician/astronomer/philosopher   

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

May 01   In the year 1854 amsterdam begins transferring drinking water out of the dunes   

May 03   William Beale, composer, dies at 70 on this day in history.   

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   On this day in history john Blackham, cricketer (Australia's 1st wicketkeeper)   

May 13   Louis H Chrispijn, Dutch director (Lost & Found, Silvia Silombra) on this day in history.   

May 18   On this day in history bernard Zweers, Dutch composer (To my Fatherland)   

May 24   On this day in history anthony Burns, slave, arrested by US Deputy marshals in Boston   

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

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   Marine Telegraph from Fort Point to San Fransisco completed on this day in history.   

May 27   Marine Telegraph from Ft Point to SF completed on this day in history.   

May 30   In the year 1854 kansas-Nebraska Act repealed Missouri Compromise opens north slavery   

« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Next Page »

Jan 01   On this day in history birth of james Frazer, Britain, anthropologist/author (The Golden Bough)   

Jan 06   On this day in history birth of sherlock Holmes, Mycroft, fictional detective (via Arthur Conan Doyle)   

Jan 09   On this day in history 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   In the year 1854 birth of thomas A Watson, needed by Bell, inventor assistant (Telephone)   

Jan 29   Willem PC Knuttel, Dutch bibliographer/librarian was born in the year 1854.   

Feb 09   Aletta [Henriette] Jacobs, 1st Dutch female physician was born on this day in history.   

Feb 09   In the year 1854 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 on this day in history.   

Jan 18   Juda Turo, American philanthropist, dies on this day in history.   

Feb 04   Carl Ludwig Cornelius Westenholz, composer, dies at 66 on this day in history.   

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

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