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:
Decades:
Years:
1854 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1854
MDCCCLIV
Ab urbe condita2607
Armenian calendar1303
ԹՎ ՌՅԳ
Assyrian calendar6604
Baháʼí calendar10–11
Balinese saka calendar1775–1776
Bengali calendar1261
Berber calendar2804
British Regnal year17 Vict. 1 – 18 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar2398
Burmese calendar1216
Byzantine calendar7362–7363
Chinese calendar癸丑年 (Water Ox)
4551 or 4344
    — to —
甲寅年 (Wood Tiger)
4552 or 4345
Coptic calendar1570–1571
Discordian calendar3020
Ethiopian calendar1846–1847
Hebrew calendar5614–5615
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1910–1911
 - Shaka Samvat1775–1776
 - Kali Yuga4954–4955
Holocene calendar11854
Igbo calendar854–855
Iranian calendar1232–1233
Islamic calendar1270–1271
Japanese calendarKaei 7 / Ansei 1
(安政元年)
Javanese calendar1782–1783
Julian calendarGregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar4187
Minguo calendar58 before ROC
民前58年
Nanakshahi calendar386
Thai solar calendar2396–2397
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

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January–March

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Juan Álvarez, strongman of Guerrero, named by the Plan of Ayutla as one of three leaders of liberation forces.

April–June

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July–September

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October–December

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Undated

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Births

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January–March

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Paul Ehrlich
 
Emil von Behring
 
Clara Louise Burnham
 
Henri Poincaré
 
Orrin Dubbs Bleakley
 
Robert Laird Borden

April–June

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July–September

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Oscar Wilde
 
Queenie Newall

October–December

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Undated

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Eliza D. Keith

Deaths

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January–June

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Carl Adolph von Basedow
 
Georg Ohm

July–December

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Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton

Undated

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References

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  1. ^ Lee, Jennifer (January 6, 2009). "The Curious Case of a Birthday for Sherlock". The New York Times. Retrieved June 15, 2018.
  2. ^ [1]. Archived January 17, 2012, at the Wayback Machine "The Teutonia Männerchor was founded in 1854."
  3. ^ CommunicationSolutions/ISI, "Railroad — Atlantic & North Carolina", North Carolina Business History, 2006, accessed 21 May 2015.
  4. ^ "Revolución de Ayutla (Plan de Ayutla)" [The Revolution of Ayutla (Plan of Autla)] (in Spanish). October 14, 2014. Retrieved June 8, 2019.
  5. ^ "Introduction to Wood Despatch of 1854". Krishna Kanta Handiqui State Open University. 2011. Retrieved October 9, 2014.
  6. ^ "Wetterhorn during the golden and the post golden age". summitpost.org. 2010. Retrieved January 26, 2011.
  7. ^ Johnson, Steven (2006). The Ghost Map: a street, an epidemic and the two men who battled to save Victorian London. London: Allen Lane. ISBN 978-0-7139-9974-7.
  8. ^ Baly, Monica E.; Matthew, H. C. G. (2004). "Nightingale, Florence (1820–1910)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35241. Retrieved June 20, 2011. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  9. ^ Dunn, Elwood D.; Beyan, Amos J.; Burrowes, Carl Patrick (2000). Historical Dictionary of Liberia. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. p. 33. ISBN 9781461659310.
  10. ^ "Oscar Wilde". www.bl.uk. Retrieved November 12, 2022.
  11. ^ "PEDRO MARÍA ANAYA" (in Spanish). Presidencia de la Republica. Archived from the original on May 30, 2019. Retrieved May 30, 2019.
  12. ^ Ibarra, Marco (August 6, 2018). "Nicolás Bravo: Biografía y Aportes" [Nicolás Bravo: Biography and Accomplishments] (in Spanish). lifeder.com. Retrieved May 30, 2019.

Further reading

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  • The Annual register of world events: Volume 96 (1855), highly detailed coverage of events in British Empire and worldwide full text online