Page 6: Historical Events In 1854

Oct 10   US Assay Office in New York City, NY opens in the year 1854.   

Oct 10   On this day in history uS Assay Office in NY City, NY opens   

Oct 12   In the year 1854 lincoln University founded as Ashmun Institute   

Oct 16   On this day in history karl J Kautsky, Austrian marxist/socialist   

Oct 16   On this day in history the birth of Oscar Wilde, Irish born novelist and playwright   

Oct 17   Miners burn down Eureka Hotel, Ballarat, after court dismisses murder charges against hotelier James Bentley, accused of kicking a young miner to death on this day in history.   

Oct 17   The Australian newspaper The Age, is published for the first time in Melbourne on this day in history.   

Oct 18   Bill Murdoch, cricketer (great pioneer of Australian Test cricket) on this day in history.   

Oct 20   Alphonse Allais, French author/humorist (Pass the Bile) in the year 1854.   

Oct 21   Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses were sent to the Crimean War in the year 1854.   

Oct 22   On this day in history j Gotthelf, writer, dies at 57   

Oct 23   The Times give precise British positions in Krim on this day in history.   

Oct 24   Hendrik W Bakhuis Roozeboom, chemist (Heterogenen Gleichgewichte) on this day in history.   

Oct 25   On this day in history charge of Light Brigade (Battle of Balaklava, Crimean War), 409 die   

Oct 25   The Charge of the Light Brigade takes place during the Crimean War on this day in history.   

Oct 25   In the year 1854 the infamous 'Charge of the Light Brigade' takes place at Balaklava,during the Crimean War   

Oct 26   August T C Kiehl, Dutch actor (Pearl of Zaandam) on this day in history.   

Oct 28   James P Carrell, composer, dies at 67 on this day in history.   

Oct 31   On this day in history georg A Erman, German Egyptologist (Grammar of Ancient Egypt)   

Nov 02   On this day in history cobblestone paving of Washington St between Dupont & Kearny starts   

Nov 04   In the year 1854 lighthouse established on Alcatraz Island   

Nov 04   Lighthouse forms on Alcatraz Island on this day in history.   

Nov 05   ... Soimonov, Russian general, dies in battle of Inkermann in the year 1854.   

Nov 05   In the year 1854 crimean War: British & French defeat Russian force of 50,000   

Nov 06   John Phillip Sousa, Wash DC, march king (Stars & Stripes Forever) on this day in history.   

Nov 06   On this day in history the birth of John Philip Sousa, American composer and conductor   

Nov 09   Franz Liszt's "Fest-Long," premieres in the year 1854.   

Nov 09   Joseph Miroslav Weber, composer in the year 1854.   

Nov 13   In the year 1854 "New Era" sinks off NJ coast with loss of 300   

Nov 13   On this day in history george Whitfield Chadwick, Lowell Mass, composer (Judi Van Winke)   

Nov 13   The ship "New Era" sinks off NJ coast with loss of 300 in the year 1854.   

Nov 15   On this day in history in Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is given the necessary royal concession.   

Nov 16   Jules van de Heuvel, Belgian lawyer/politician in the year 1854.   

Nov 17   Louis HG Lyautey, French minister of Defense (1916-17) in the year 1854.   

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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 in the year 1854.   

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 in the year 1854.   

Feb 09   Edward Carson, 1st Baron Carson, lawyer/leader (Irish Unionist Party) was born in the year 1854.   

Jan 08   William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician (b. 1768) died on this day in history.   

Jan 09   Filippo Traetta, [Philip Trajetta], Ital composer, dies at 77 in the year 1854.   

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

Feb 04   Carl Ludwig Cornelius Westenholz, composer, dies at 66 in the year 1854.   

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   On this day in history death of willard Richards, American religious leader (b. 1804)   

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