1854 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1854?
- January 4, 1854 – The McDonald Islands are discovered by Captain William McDonald aboard the Samarang.
- 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.
- 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 28, 1854 – Crimean War: France and Britain declare 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.
- April 1, 1854 – Hard Times begins serialisation in Charles Dickens’ magazine, Household Words.
- June 10, 1854 – The first class of the United States Naval Academy students graduate.
- 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.
- September 20, 1854 – Battle of Alma: British and French troops defeat Russians in the Crimea.
- 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 6, 1854 – The Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead starts shortly after midnight, leading to 53 deaths and hundreds injured.
- October 21, 1854 – Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses are sent to the Crimean War.
- November 5, 1854 – Crimean War: The Battle of Inkerman.
- December 3, 1854 – Eureka Stockade: In what is claimed by many to be the birth of Australian democracy, more than 20 gold miners at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences.
- 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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