In history, year 1854 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1854.
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
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| 30 may | The Kansas–Nebraska Act became law, establishing the US territories of Nebraska and Kansas, repealing the 1820 Missouri Compromise, and allowing settlers in those territories to determine if they would permit slavery within their boundaries. |
| 31 may | The civil death procedure was abolished in France. Civil death is the loss of all or almost all civil rights by a person due to a conviction for a felony or due to an act by the government of a country that results in the loss of civil rights. It is usually inflicted on persons convicted of crimes against the state or adults determined by a court to be legally incompetent because of mental disability. |
| 21 june | The first Victoria Cross was awarded during the bombardment of Bomarsund in the Åland Islands. The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" to members of the armed forces of various Commonwealth countries, and previous British Empire territories. |
| 09 august | Henry David Thoreau published Walden, his account of having spent two years living mostly in isolation on the shores of Walden Pondnear Concord, Massachusetts, US. |
| 21 october | Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses were sent to Turkey to help treat wounded British soldiers fighting in the Crimean War. |
| 25 october | Crimean War-Lord Cardigan led his cavalry to disaster in theBattle of Balaclava. |
| 29 november | The Eureka Flag was flown for the first time, during the EurekaStockade rebellion in Australia. |
| 03 december | At least 22 people were killed and 35 others were injured whenrebelling miners at the Eureka Stockade in Ballarat, Victoria,Australia, clashed violently with the police and the military. |
| 08 december | In his apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus, Pope Pius IX proclaimed the dogmatic definition of the Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Virgin Mary was conceived free of original sin. |
| 04 May | The first postage stamp in India was introduced on 1 July 1852 in Sindh district. But it was first officially implemented on 4 May 1854 in India. |
| 25 July | Walter Hunt first received a US patent for paper shirt collars. |
| 01 October | Postage stamps started in India, the head of Queen Victoria and India was made on the stamp. It cost half the price (1/32 rupees). |
| 15 August | East India Railway ran the first passenger train from Calcutta to Hooghly in a distance of 37 km. But it was officially inaugurated in 1885. |
| 16 December | The machine was used to clean the road in Philadelphia, USA for the first time. |
| 04 January | Captain William McDonald discovered McDonald's Island. |
| 15 January | German mathematician and physicist Georg Simon Ohm died at the age of 67. |
| 09 January | Pittsburgh, USA to encourage German culture. Teutonia Bazaar was founded in. |
| 28 February | The Republican Party was formally organized in Rick. |
| 01 March | The British East India Company added Jhasi state of India to their kingdom under the doctrine of Langha. |
| 01 April | Hard Times began serializing Charles Dickens magazine in domestic terms. |
| 24 May | Anthony Burns arrested by US Deputy Marshal in Boston. |
| 06 July | Jackson held the first convention of the American Republican Party in Michigan. |
| 16 August | The National Emigration Conference began in Cleveland. |
| 12 October | Lincoln University was founded as the Ashmun Institute. |
| 17 November | The Suvej Canal Company was established in Egypt. |
| 26 December | Wood-pulp paper exhibited for the first time. |
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 03 September | Charles Tatham / Fencer / United States of America |
| 04 June | Solko van den Bergh / Shooter / Netherlands |
| 05 November | Paul Sabatier / Academic / France |
| 08 January | Fanny Bullock Workman / Mountaineer / United States of America |
| 08 June | Douglas Cameron / Politician / Canada |
| 09 November | Maud Howe Elliott / Author / United States of America |
| 10 June | Sarah Grand / Writer / Ireland |
| 13 November | George Whitefield Chadwick / Educator / United States of America |
| 14 April | Martin Lipp / Poet / Estonia |
| 14 March | Paul Ehrlich / Physician / Germany |
| 16 October | Oscar Wilde / Novelist / Ireland |
| 17 September | David Dunbar Buick / Business Man / United States of America |
| 18 January | Thomas A. Watson / Scientist / United States of America |
| 18 October | Billy Murdoch / Cricketer / Australia |
| 21 March | Alick Bannerman / Cricketer / Australia |
| 22 April | Henri La Fontaine / Lawyer / Belgium |
| 24 October | Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom / Academic / Netherlands |
| 27 March | Giovanni Battista Grassi / Physician / Italy |
| 27 July | Takahashi Korekiyo / Politician / Japan |
| 29 April | Henri Poincaré / Mathematician / France |