1854
year
1854 (MDCCCLIV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1854th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 854th year of the 2nd millennium, the 54th year of the 19th century, and the 5th year of the 1850s decade. As of the start of 1854, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 18th century – 19th century – 20th century |
| Decades: | 1820s 1830s 1840s – 1850s – 1860s 1870s 1880s |
| Years: | 1851 1852 1853 – 1854 – 1855 1856 1857 |
| Gregorian calendar | 1854 MDCCCLIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2607 |
| Armenian calendar | 1303 ԹՎ ՌՅԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6604 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 10–11 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1775–1776 |
| Bengali calendar | 1261 |
| Berber calendar | 2804 |
| British Regnal year | 17 Vict. 1 – 18 Vict. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2398 |
| Burmese calendar | 1216 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7362–7363 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸丑年 (Water Ox) 4550 or 4490 — to — 甲寅年 (Wood Tiger) 4551 or 4491 |
| Coptic calendar | 1570–1571 |
| Discordian calendar | 3020 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1846–1847 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5614–5615 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1910–1911 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1775–1776 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4954–4955 |
| Holocene calendar | 11854 |
| Igbo calendar | 854–855 |
| Iranian calendar | 1232–1233 |
| Islamic calendar | 1270–1271 |
| Japanese calendar | Kaei 7 / Ansei 1 (安政元年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1782–1783 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 12 days |
| Korean calendar | 4187 |
| Minguo calendar | 58 before ROC 民前58年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 386 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2396–2397 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴水牛年 (female Water-Ox) 1980 or 1599 or 827 — to — 阳木虎年 (male Wood-Tiger) 1981 or 1600 or 828 |
Events
change- January 6 – The fictional detective Sherlock Holmes is born.
- March 20 –The Boston Public Library opens to the public.
- June 24 - Franz Liszt shows Franz Schubert's opera Alfonso und Estrella in Weimar. This was thirty-two years after it was composed.
- August 9 –Johann succeeds to the throne of Saxony on the death of his brother.
- October 6 –The great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead in England
- November 5 –Crimean War – Battle of Inkerman: The Russians are defeated.
- December 3 – Eureka Stockade miner's rebellion, Ballarat, Australia
- The French fashion label Louis Vuitton is founded.
Births
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- January 1 – James George Frazer, Scottish social anthropologist (d. 1941)
- March 15 – Emil von Behring, German physiologist, 1901 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1917)
- April 29 –Henri Poincaré, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1912)
- June 26 –Robert Borden, 8th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1937)
- July 27 –Takahashi Korekiyo, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1936)
- October 3 –William C. Gorgas, American physician and Surgeon General (d. 1920)
- October 16 – Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (d. 1900)
- November 17 –Hubert Lyautey, Marshal of France (d. 1934)
- December 23 –Victoriano Huerta, President of Mexico (d. 1916)
Deaths
change- February 17 –John Martin, English painter (b. 1789)
- April 11 –Karl Adolph von Basedow, German physician (b. 1799)
- June 7 – Charles Baudin, French admiral (b. 1784)
- July 6 –Georg Ohm, German physicist (b. 1789)
- August 21 –Thomas Clayton, American lawyer and politician (b. 1777)
- September 8 –Angelo Mai, Italian cardinal and philologist (b. 1782)
- October 26 –Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, queen consort of Bavaria (b. 1792)
- November 25 –John Gibson Lockhart, Scottish writer (b. 1794)
- December 9 –Almeida Garrett, Portuguese writer (b. 1799)
- December 15 –Kamehameha III, King of Hawaii (b. c. 1814)
New books
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