Page 3: Historical Events In 1854

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

Apr 04   Sailors and Marines from sailing sloop, Plymouth, protect U.S. citizens at Shanghai on this day in history.   

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

Apr 06   William Strickland US architect, dies in the year 1854.   

Apr 06   William Strickland, US architect, dies in the year 1854.   

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

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

Apr 11   On this day in history hugh Massie, cricketer (Australian batsman of the 1880's)   

Apr 11   On this day in history karl Adolph von Basedow, German DR (Ziekte van Basedow), dies at 55   

Apr 13   On this day in history richard T Ely, US economist (Hard Times)   

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

Apr 16   In the year 1854 san Salvador destroyed by earthquake   

Apr 16   Steamer "Long Beach" sinks off Long Beach NY, 311 die in the year 1854.   

Apr 17   In the year 1854 gottlob Wiedebein, composer, dies at 74   

Apr 18   In the year 1854 joseph Antoni Frantiszek Elsner, composer, dies at 84   

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

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   On this day in history 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 in the year 1854.   

May 05   On this day in history 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   In the year 1854 bernard Zweers, Dutch composer (To my Fatherland)   

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

May 27   In the year 1854 marine Telegraph from Ft Point to SF completed   

May 30   In the year 1854 kansas-Nebraska Act repealed Missouri Compromise opens north slavery   

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Jan 01   In the year 1854 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   Jennie Jerome, American society beauty and mother of Winston Churchill (d. 1921) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 10   Peter Gast, composer was born on this day in history.   

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

Jan 29   Willem PC Knuttel, Dutch bibliographer/librarian was born on this day in history.   

Feb 09   In the year 1854 birth of aletta [Henriette] Jacobs, 1st Dutch female physician   

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

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   On this day in history carl Ludwig Cornelius Westenholz, composer, dies at 66   

Feb 17   In the year 1854 hugues F R de Lamennais, French priest/writer, dies at 71   

Mar 06   In the year 1854 caspar GC Reinwardt, German/Dutch biologist, dies at 80   

Mar 11   In the year 1854 death of willard Richards, American religious leader (b. 1804)   

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