What Happened In 1854
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What happened in 1854 ? January 1854 Wednesday 04: The McDonald Islands are discovered by Captain William McDonald aboard the Samarang. Thursday 05: The San Francisco steamer sinks, 300 dead. Friday 13: The accordion is patented by Anthony Faas.
February 1854 Tuesday 14: Texas is linked by telegraph with the rest of the United States, when a connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas is completed. Friday 17: The British recognize the independence of the Orange Free State. Tuesday 28: The United States Republican Party is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin.
March 1854 Wednesday 01: German pyschologist Friedrich Eduard Beneke disappears; two years later his remains are found in the canal near Charlottenburg. Tuesday 28: Crimean War: United Kingdom and France declare war on Russia. Friday 31: Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade.
April 1854 Saturday 01: Hard Times begins serialisation in Charles Dickens magazine, Household Words. Saturday 29: The Ashmun Institute is officially chartered, becoming the first college for African American students.
May 1854 Tuesday 30: The Kansas-Nebraska Act becomes law establishing the US territories of Nebraska and Kansas.
June 1854 Saturday 10: The first class of United States Naval Academy students graduate.
July 1854 Thursday 06: In Jackson, Michigan, the first convention of the U.S. Republican Party is held. Thursday 13: In the battle of Guaymas, Mexico, General Jose Maria Yanez stops the French invasion led by Count Gaston de Raousset Boulbon.
August 1854 Friday 04: The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships. Saturday 12: Count Gaston de Raousset Boulbon is executed by shooting, in regard to the Battle of Guaymas.
September 1854 Wednesday 20: Battle of Alma: British and French troops defeat Russians in the Crimea. Wednesday 27: The steamship Arctic sinks with 300 people on board. This marks the first great disaster in the Atlantic Ocean.
October 1854 Sunday 01: The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American System of Watch Manufacturing. Saturday 21: Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses were sent to the Crimean War.
Wednesday 25: Battle of Balaklava during the Crimean War (Charge of the Light Brigade)
November 1854 Wednesday 15: In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is given the needed royal concession by Said.
December 1854 Sunday 03: Eureka Stockade: More than twenty goldminers at Ballarat, Australia were killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences. Claimed by many to be the birth of Australian democracy. Friday 08: Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogma of Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Virgin Mary was born free of original sin.
February 1854 Tuesday 14: Texas is linked by telegraph with the rest of the United States, when a connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas is completed. Friday 17: The British recognize the independence of the Orange Free State. Tuesday 28: The United States Republican Party is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin.
March 1854 Wednesday 01: German pyschologist Friedrich Eduard Beneke disappears; two years later his remains are found in the canal near Charlottenburg. Tuesday 28: Crimean War: United Kingdom and France declare war on Russia. Friday 31: Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade.
April 1854 Saturday 01: Hard Times begins serialisation in Charles Dickens magazine, Household Words. Saturday 29: The Ashmun Institute is officially chartered, becoming the first college for African American students.
May 1854 Tuesday 30: The Kansas-Nebraska Act becomes law establishing the US territories of Nebraska and Kansas.
June 1854 Saturday 10: The first class of United States Naval Academy students graduate.
July 1854 Thursday 06: In Jackson, Michigan, the first convention of the U.S. Republican Party is held. Thursday 13: In the battle of Guaymas, Mexico, General Jose Maria Yanez stops the French invasion led by Count Gaston de Raousset Boulbon.
August 1854 Friday 04: The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships. Saturday 12: Count Gaston de Raousset Boulbon is executed by shooting, in regard to the Battle of Guaymas.
September 1854 Wednesday 20: Battle of Alma: British and French troops defeat Russians in the Crimea. Wednesday 27: The steamship Arctic sinks with 300 people on board. This marks the first great disaster in the Atlantic Ocean.
October 1854 Sunday 01: The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American System of Watch Manufacturing. Saturday 21: Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses were sent to the Crimean War.
Wednesday 25: Battle of Balaklava during the Crimean War (Charge of the Light Brigade)
November 1854 Wednesday 15: In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is given the needed royal concession by Said.
December 1854 Sunday 03: Eureka Stockade: More than twenty goldminers at Ballarat, Australia were killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences. Claimed by many to be the birth of Australian democracy. Friday 08: Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogma of Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Virgin Mary was born free of original sin.
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