1854 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1854?
- January 5, 1854 – The San Francisco steamer sinks, killing 300 people.
- February 17, 1854 – The United Kingdom recognizes the independence of the Orange Free State.
- February 23, 1854 – The official independence of the Orange Free State is declared.
- February 28, 1854 – The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin.
- March 1, 1854 – German psychologist Friedrich Eduard Beneke disappears; two years later his remains are found in a canal near Charlottenburg.
- March 27, 1854 – Crimean War: The United Kingdom declares war on Russia.
- March 31, 1854 – Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade.
- May 30, 1854 – The Kansas-Nebraska Act becomes law establishing the US territories of Nebraska and Kansas.
- June 21, 1854 – The first Victoria Cross is awarded during the bombardment of Bomarsund in the Åland Islands.
- July 6, 1854 – In Jackson, Michigan, the first convention of the United States Republican Party is held.
- July 13, 1854 – In the Battle of Guaymas, Mexico, General Jose Maria Yanez stops the French invasion led by Count Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon.
- August 4, 1854 – The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships.
- August 9, 1854 – Henry David Thoreau published Walden.
- September 20, 1854 – Battle of Alma: British and French troops defeat Russians in the Crimea.
- September 27, 1854 – The steamship SS Arctic sinks with 300 people on board. This marks the first great disaster in the Atlantic Ocean.
- October 1, 1854 – The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American system of watch manufacturing.
- October 9, 1854 – Crimean War: The siege of Sebastopol begins.
- October 21, 1854 – Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses are sent to the Crimean War.
- October 25, 1854 – The Battle of Balaklava during the Crimean War (Charge of the Light Brigade).
- December 8, 1854 – In his Apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus, Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogmatic definition of Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Virgin Mary was born free of original sin.
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