• Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1854. 1854 (MDCCCLIV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...
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    October 1854 until September 1855, during the Crimean War. The allies (French, Sardinian, Ottoman, and British) landed at Eupatoria on 14 September 1854, intending...
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    – 25 June 1854 First Battle of Bomarsund, 21 June 1854 Second Battle of Bomarsund, 15 August 1854 Siege of Petropavlovsk, 30–31 August 1854, on the Pacific...
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    The 1854–55 United States House of Representatives elections were held in 31 states for all 234 seats between August 4, 1854, and November 6, 1855, during...
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  • The Miao rebellion of 1854–1873, also known as the Qian rebellion (Chinese: 黔亂; pinyin: Qián luàn; lit. 'Guizhou uprising') was an uprising of ethnic Miao...
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    The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 (10 Stat. 277) was a territorial organic act that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. It was drafted by Democratic...
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    Johan Ludvig Heiberg (27 November 1854 – 4 January 1928) was a Danish philologist and historian. He is best known for his discovery of previously unknown...
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  • 1854 in sports describes the year's events in world sport. Events The Knickerbockers adopt some rule changes agreed in conference by their delegates with...
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    The 1854–55 United States Senate elections were held on various dates in various states. As these U.S. Senate elections were prior to the ratification...
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    North and South is a social novel published in 1854–55 by English author Elizabeth Gaskell. With Wives and Daughters (1865) and Cranford (1853), it is...
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    Miss Nightingale at Scutari, 1854, also known as The Lady with the Lamp, is an 1891 painting by Henrietta Rae. It depicts Florence Nightingale at Scutari...
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  • The year 1854 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. July 22 – Discovery of the asteroid 30 Urania by John Russell Hind...
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    research definitively proved that the Constellation launched in 1797 and the 1854-launched vessel were distinct ships. Periodic repairs have been carried out...
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    for Casimir Pulaski. Named Metacomet when built for commercial owners in 1854, she served as USS Pulaski from 1858 to 1863, when she was sold by the Navy...
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    Events from the year 1854 in Canada. Monarch — Victoria Parliament — 4th then 5th Governor General of the Province of Canada — James Bruce, 8th Earl of...
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    NGC 1854 (also known as NGC 1855) is a young globular cluster in the northern part of the central bar structure of the Large Magellanic Cloud in the Dorado...
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    FitzGerald was chosen to lead this delegation, which lasted from 14 June 1854 to 2 August 1854, and is therefore sometimes said to have headed New Zealand's first...
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    The 1854 Atlantic hurricane season featured five known tropical cyclones, three of which made landfall in the United States. At one time, another was believed...
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    after around 1860. This change to the hilt is sometimes referred to as the '1854 pattern', but it was not technically a 'pattern' and the change seems to...
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  • It participated in the United States House of Representatives election of 1854, and continued to function until 1860, when it merged into the Republican...
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  • du feu Tiouttchev, Poésies Heinrich Heine, Gedichte. 1853 und 1854 ("Poems. 1853 and 1854"), German poet and author living in France Death years link to...
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  • Events from the year 1854 in France. Monarch – Napoleon III 27 March - United Kingdom declares war on Russia and Crimean War begins. 28 March - France...
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  • The 1854 United States elections was the midterm election choosing members of the 32nd United States Congress during the middle of Democratic President...
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  • article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1854. March 2 – An adaptation of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice into Bengali...
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  • The 1854 revolt in Epirus was one of the most important of a series of Greek uprisings that occurred in Epirus during that period. When the Crimean War...
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  • Mobile, a side wheel steamer built as Tennessee at Baltimore, Maryland, in 1854 for Charles Morgan’s Texas Line, was seized by Maj. Gen. M. Lovell, CSA,...
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  • extension was planned. Authorised under the Newport (Monmouthshire) Docks Act 1854 (17 & 18 Vict. c. clxxxv), it was opened on 2 March 1858; it had cost £64...
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  • Events in the year 1854 in Belgium. Monarch: Leopold I Head of government: Henri de Brouckère 27 February – Commercial treaty with France on tariffs, transit...
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    In 1854, Frenchman Eugene Lefaucheux introduced the Lefaucheux Model 1854, notable as being the first revolver to use self-contained metallic cartridges...
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