1854 (MDCCCLIV) was a common year starting on Sunday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday in the Julian calendar.
| 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 |
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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)
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