Important Historical Events of the year 1854, Year 1854 in History

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What happened in the year 1854?

Date	Event
January 4, 1854	The McDonald Islands are discovered by Captain William McDonald aboard the Samarang.
January 21, 1854	The RMS Tayleur sinks off Lambay Island on her maiden voyage from Liverpool to Australia with great loss of life.
February 7, 1854	A law is approved to found the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Lectures started October 16, 1855.
February 17, 1854	The United Kingdom recognizes the independence of the Orange Free State.
February 23, 1854	The official independence of the Orange Free State is declared.
February 24, 1854	A Penny Red with perforations becomes the first perforated postage stamp to be officially issued for distribution.
March 20, 1854	The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin, US.
March 24, 1854	President José Gregorio Monagas abolishes slavery in Venezuela.[24]
March 28, 1854	Crimean War: France and Britain declare war on Russia.
March 31, 1854	Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Convention of Kanagawa with the Tokugawa Shogunate, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade.
May 30, 1854	The Kansas–Nebraska Act becomes law establishing the U.S. territories of Kansas and Nebraska.
June 1, 1854	Åland War: The British navy destroys merchant ships and about 16,000 tar barrels of the wholesale stocks area in Oulu, Grand Duchy of Finland.
June 10, 1854	The United States Naval Academy graduates its first class of students.
July 6, 1854	In Jackson, Michigan, the first convention of the United States Republican Party is held.
July 13, 1854	In the Battle of Guaymas, Mexico, General José María Yáñez stops the French invasion led by Count Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon.
July 28, 1854	USS Constellation (1854), the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy and now a museum ship in Baltimore Harbor, is commissioned.
August 4, 1854	The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships.
August 9, 1854	American Transcendentalist philosopher Henry David Thoreau publishes his memoir Walden.
August 19, 1854	The First Sioux War begins when United States Army soldiers kill Lakota chief Conquering Bear and in return are massacred.
September 20, 1854	Crimean War: British and French troops defeat Russians at the Battle of Alma.
September 27, 1854	The paddle steamer SS Arctic, owned by the Collins Line of New York, sinks off the coast of Newfoundland, following a collision with a smaller vessel, the SS Vesta. Only 88 of over 300 people on board survive. About a dozen of the occupants of the Vesta are killed when their lifeboat is hit by the Arctic.
October 6, 1854	In England the Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead leads to 53 deaths and hundreds injured.
October 9, 1854	Crimean War: The siege of Sevastopol begins.
October 21, 1854	Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses are sent to the Crimean War.
October 25, 1854	The Battle of Balaclava takes place during the Crimean War. It is soon memorialized in verse as The Charge of the Light Brigade.
December 3, 1854	Battle of the Eureka Stockade: More than 20 gold miners at Ballarat, Victoria, are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences.
December 8, 1854	In his Apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus, Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogmatic definition of Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Blessed Virgin Mary was conceived free of Original Sin.
December 18, 1854	The Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada abolishes the seigneurial system.