November 26, 1854 Matthijs Siegenbeek, literature (Defeated German Spelling), dies November 27, 1854 Aloys L earl von Aehrenthal, Austrian minister of Foreign affairs November 28, 1854 Dutch army stops Chinese uprising in Borneo November 28, 1854 Gottlieb J Haberlandt, Hungarians/German botanist December 5, 1854 Aaron Allen of Boston patents folding theater chair December 8, 1854 Pope Pius IX proclaims Immaculate Conception, makes Mary, free of Original Sin December 9, 1854 Pekka Hannikainen, composer December 15, 1854 1st street-cleaning machine in U.S. 1st used in Philadelphia December 19, 1854 Allen Wilson of Conn patents sewing machine to sew curving seams December 26, 1854 Wood-pulp paper 1st exhibited, Buffalo December 30, 1854 Pennsylvania Rock Oil Co, 1st in U.S., incorporated in New York City