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October 25: Lord Cardigan sends 600 British cavalry "into the Valley of Death" on disastrous Charge of the Light Brigade; 110 are killed and 162 wounded. William Simpson - Charge of the light cavalry brigade, 25th Oct. 1854, under Major General the Earl of Cardigan.jpg
October 25: Lord Cardigan sends 600 British cavalry "into the Valley of Death" on disastrous Charge of the Light Brigade; 110 are killed and 162 wounded.
1854 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 1854
MDCCCLIV
Ab urbe condita 2607
Armenian calendar 1303
ԹՎ ՌՅԳ
Assyrian calendar 6604
Baháʼí calendar 10–11
Balinese saka calendar 1775–1776
Bengali calendar 1260–1261
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)
4551 or 4344
     to 
甲寅年 (Wood  Tiger)
4552 or 4345
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

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 12days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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January–March

November: Florence Nightingale arrives with 38-nurse team to provide care for Crimean War wounded. Florence Nightingale (H Hering NPG x82368).jpg
November: Florence Nightingale arrives with 38-nurse team to provide care for Crimean War wounded.

April–June

July–September

October–December

Undated

Births

January–March

Paul Ehrlich Paul Ehrlich 1915.jpg
Paul Ehrlich
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Emil von Behring
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Clara Louise Burnham
Henri Poincare Henri Poincare-2.jpg
Henri Poincaré
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Orrin Dubbs Bleakley
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Robert Laird Borden

April–June

July–September

Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde MET DP136272.jpg
Oscar Wilde
Queenie Newall Queenie Newall.jpg
Queenie Newall

October–December

Undated

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Eliza D. Keith

Deaths

January–June

Carl Adolph von Basedow Carl Adolph von Basedow.jpg
Carl Adolph von Basedow
Georg Ohm Georg Simon Ohm3.jpg
Georg Ohm

July–December

Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton Mrs. Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton.jpg
Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton

Undated

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">1833</span> Calendar year

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">1857</span> Calendar year

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">1853</span> Calendar year

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">1855</span> Calendar year

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Events from the year 1854 in the United Kingdom.

Events from the year 1854 in France.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">1854 in Russia</span>

Events from the year 1854 in Russia

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Åland War</span> Baltic Sea theater of the Crimean War

The Åland War was the operations of a Anglo-French naval force against military and civilian facilities on the coast of the Grand Duchy of Finland in 1854–1856, during the Crimean War between the Russian Empire and the allied France and Britain. The war is named after the Battle of Bomarsund in Åland. Although the name of the war refers to Åland, skirmishes were also fought in other coastal towns of Finland in the Gulf of Bothnia and the Gulf of Finland.

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