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1854 Historical Event(s)
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 23, 1854
– The official independence of the Orange Free State is declared.
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 31, 1854
– The civil death procedure is abolished in France.
June 21, 1854
– The first Victoria Cross is awarded during the bombardment of Bomarsund in the Åland Islands.
September 27, 1854
– The steamship SS Arctic sinks with 300 people on board. This marks the first great disaster in the Atlantic Ocean.
October 9, 1854
– Crimean War: The siege of Sebastopol begins.
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.
Who Were Born On 1854?
February 17, 1854
– Friedrich Alfred Krupp, German industrialist (d. 1902)
March 14, 1854
– Paul Ehrlich, German scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1915)
June 19, 1854
– Alfredo Catalani, Italian musician (d. 1893)
July 4, 1854
– Victor Babeş, Romanian bacteriologist (d. 1926)
July 12, 1854
– Juan Gualberto Gómez, Afro-Cuban leader in the Cuban war of independence (d. 1933)
October 24, 1854
– Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist (d. 1907)
October 28, 1854
– Jean-Marie Guyau, French philosopher and poet (d. 1888)
November 5, 1854
– Alphonse Desjardins, Canadian journalist and banking executive (d. 1920)
December 13, 1854
– Herman Bavinck, Dutch theologian and churchman (d. 1921)