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Special Events for the Year 1854 - back to GREGSITE

Born :02/09/1854Aletta [Henri‰tte] Jacobs, 1st Dutch female physician
Born :08/12/1854Alfred Gilbert, sculptor/goldsmith
Born :03/23/1854Alfred Milner, British governor Cape colony
Born :09/10/1854Anton CR Dreesmann, German/Neth manufacturer (Vroom & Dreesman)
Born :10/20/1854Arthur Rimbaud, France, poet/adventurer (Illuminations)
Born :11/21/1854Benedict XV, [Giacomo PGB markies della Chiessa], 258th Pope (1914-22)
Born :05/18/1854Bernard Zweers, composer (On my Fatherland)
Born :06/13/1854Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor (steam turbine)
Born :10/07/1854Christiaan R de Wet, South Africa, Boer General (Nicholsonsnek)
Born :09/23/1854Cornelis W Lely, engineer/gov of Suriname (1902-05)
Born :07/19/1854Dani‰l Josephus Jitta, lawyer/member Council of State
Born :03/31/1854Dugald Clerk, inventor (2-stroke motorcycle engine)
Born :03/27/1854Edgar Tinel, Flemish composer (Le Chant Gr‚gorien)
Born :06/18/1854Edward Wyllis Scripps, publisher/journalist
Born :09/01/1854Engelbert Humperdinck, Germany, opera composer (Parisfal)
Born :02/17/1854Friedrich A Krupp, German arms manufacturer
Born :10/31/1854Georg A Erman, German Egyptologist (Grammar of Ancient Egypt)
Born :07/12/1854George Eastman, Waterville NY, inventor (Kodak camera)
Born :11/13/1854George Whitefield Chadwick, Lowell Mass, composer (Judi Van Winke)
Born :05/27/1854Georges Eekhoud, Belgian writer (Jeune Belgium)
Born :06/09/1854Gerardus J P J Bolland, philospher (Bolland Society)
Born :09/17/1854Hans Mller, music historian
Born :04/29/1854Henri Poincar‚, France, mathematician/astronomer/philosopher
Born :04/22/1854Henri-Marie Lafontaine, Belgium, international lawyer (Nobel 1913)
Born :08/12/1854John P Kelly, [Kell˜], actor/operetta writer
Born :11/06/1854John Phillip Sousa, Wash DC, march king (Stars & Stripes Forever)
Born :04/10/1854Jozef M T Orelio, baritone
Born :11/16/1854Jules Van de Hill, Belgian lawyer/politician
Born :10/16/1854Karl J Kautsky, Austrian marxist/socialist
Born :07/03/1854Leos Jan cek, Hukvaldy Moravia Czech, composer (Foster Suite)
Born :05/13/1854Louis H Chrispijn, actor/director
Born :11/17/1854Louis HG Lyautey, French minister of Defense (1916-17)
Born :05/24/1854Louis Mountbatten, admiral (WW I)
Born :08/22/1854Milan, King of Serbia
Born :10/16/1854Oscar Wilde, [Fingal O'Flahertie Wills], Dublin, (Pic of Dorian Gray)
Born :05/11/1854Ottmar Mergenthaler, Hachtel Germany, inventor (linotype)
Born :03/14/1854Paul Ehrlich, Germany, bacteriologist (Nobel-1908)
Born :04/13/1854Richard T Ely, US economist (Hard Times)
Born :06/26/1854Robert Laird Borden, (C), 8th Canadian PM (1911-20)
Born :01/06/1854Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft, fictional detective (via Arthur Conan Doyle)
Born :01/01/1854Sir James Frazer, Britain, anthropologist/author (The Golden Bough)
Born :01/18/1854Thomas A Watson, needed by Bell, inventor assistant (Telephone)
Born :03/14/1854Thomas Riley Marshall, (D) 28th VP (1913-21)
Born :10/03/1854William Crawford Gorgas, US, Surgeon-Gen, help cure yellow fever




Died :08/16/1854Duncan Phyfe, furniture maker, dies
Died :01/09/1854Filippo Traetta/Philip Trajetta, Ital's composer/musicologist, dies
Died :08/09/1854Frederik Augustus II, king of Saxon (1836-54), dies at 57
Died :02/17/1854Hugues F R de Lamennais, [the la Mennais], French priest/writer, dies
Died :11/25/1854John G Lockhart, [scorpion], English biographer, dies at 60
Died :11/26/1854Matth˜s Siegenbeek, literature (Defeated German Spelling), dies
Died :04/06/1854William Strickland, US architect, dies




Special :11/13/1854"New Era" sinks off NJ coast with loss of 300
Special :07/06/18541st Republican state convention, Ripon, Wisc
Special :01/30/18541st election in Washington Territory; 1,682 votes cast
Special :02/22/18541st meeting of Republican Party, Michigan
Special :03/17/18541st park land purchased by a US city, Worcester, Mass
Special :12/15/18541st street-cleaning machine in US 1st used in Philadelphia
Special :03/01/1854A Marth discovers asteroid #29 Amphitrite
Special :12/05/1854Aaron Allen of Boston patents a folding theater chair
Special :12/19/1854Allen Wilson of Conn patents sewing machine to sew curving seams
Special :02/04/1854Alvan Bovay proposes name "Republican Party," Ripon, Wisc
Special :05/24/1854Anthony Burns, slave, arrested by US Deputy marshals in Boston
Special :01/13/1854Anthony Foss patents the accordion
Special :01/09/1854Astor Library opens in NYC
Special :09/20/1854British & French defeat Russians at Alma, in Crimea
Special :02/17/1854British recognize independence of Orange Free State (South Africa)
Special :10/25/1854Charge of Light Brigade (Battle of Balaklava, Crimean War), 409 die
Special :03/07/1854Charles Miller patents 1st US sewing machine to stitch buttonholes
Special :11/02/1854Cobblestone paving of Washington St between Dupont & Kearny starts
Special :03/31/1854Commodore Perry forces Japan to open its ports to foreign trade
Special :02/06/1854Composer R Schumann is saved from suicide attempt into the Rhine
Special :08/06/1854Congress passes Confiscation Act
Special :01/18/1854Filibuster William Walker proclaims Republic of Sonora in NW M‚xico
Special :06/29/1854Gadsden Purchase (parts of Az, NM) from Mexico for $10 million
Special :06/10/1854Georg F B Reiman proposes that space is curved
Special :10/26/1854H Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #32 Pomona
Special :08/09/1854Henry David Thoreau publishes "Walden"
Special :10/28/1854J Chacornac discovers asteroid #33 Polyhymnia
Special :09/01/1854J Ferguson discovers asteroid #31 Euphrosyne
Special :07/22/1854J R Hind discovers asteroid #30 Urania
Special :03/31/1854Japan opens ports to foreign trade by Commodore Perry
Special :05/30/1854Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed Missouri Compromise opens north slavery
Special :11/04/1854Lighthouse established on Alcatraz Island
Special :05/24/1854Lincoln University, Penn, 1st Black college in US forms by Prebyts
Special :01/01/1854Lincoln University, a black college, chartered (Oxford, Penn)
Special :12/09/1854Lord Tennyson's poem, "Charge of the Light Brigade," published
Special :02/11/1854Major streets lit by coal gas for 1st time
Special :05/27/1854Marine Telegraph from Ft Point to SF completed
Special :08/24/1854National emigration convention meets in Cleveland
Special :12/30/1854Pennsylvania Rock Oil Co, 1st in US, incorporated in NYC
Special :02/02/1854Pope Pius IX encyclical "On persecution of Armenians"
Special :03/01/1854R Luther discovers asteroid #28 Bellona
Special :02/28/1854Republican Party formally organized at Ripon, Wisc
Special :03/01/1854SS City of Glasgow sinks in Liverpool harbor; 373 die
Special :04/16/1854San Salvador destroyed by earthquake
Special :08/29/1854Self-governing windmill patented (Daniel Halladay)
Special :04/16/1854Steamer "Long Beach" sinks off Long Beach NY, 311 die
Special :09/27/1854Steamship Arctic sank with 300 people aboard
Special :01/05/1854Steamship San Francisco wrecked-300 die
Special :05/30/1854Territories of Kansas & Nebraska created
Special :10/10/1854US Assay Office in New York City, NY opens
Special :03/08/1854US Commodore Matthew C Perry's 2nd trip to Japan
Special :07/13/1854US forces shell & burn San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua
Special :12/26/1854Wood-pulp paper 1st exhibited, Buffalo

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