What is 1854?
{{Year nav|1854}} {{Year in various calendars|1854}} {{Year article header|1854}} == Events == * [[January 6]] &ndash; The [[fiction]]al detective [[Sherlock Holmes]] is born. * [[March 20]] &ndash;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]] &ndash;[[John of Saxony|Johann]] succeeds to the [[Kingdom of Saxony|throne of Saxony]] on the death of his brother. * [[October 6]] &ndash;The [[great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead]] in England * [[November 5]] &ndash;[[Crimean War]] &ndash; [[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 == [[File:Henri Poincare.jpg|thumb|[[Henri Poincare]]]] * [[January 1]] &ndash; [[James George Frazer]], Scottish social anthropologist (d. [[1941]]) * [[March 15]] &ndash; [[Emil von Behring]], German [[physiologist]], 1901 [[Nobel Prize]] in Physiology or Medicine (d. [[1917]]) * [[April 29]] &ndash;[[Henri Poincaré]], French mathematician and [[physicist]] (d. [[1912]]) * [[June 26]] &ndash;[[Robert Borden]], 8th [[Prime Minister of Canada]] (d. [[1937]]) * [[July 27]] &ndash;[[Takahashi Korekiyo]], [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (d. [[1936]]) * [[October 3]] &ndash;[[William C. Gorgas]], American physician and Surgeon General (d. [[1920]]) * [[October 16]] – [[Oscar Wilde]], Irish writer (d. [[1900]]) * [[November 17]] &ndash;[[Hubert Lyautey]], Marshal of France (d. [[1934]]) * [[December 23]] &ndash;[[Victoriano Huerta]], [[President of Mexico]] (d. [[1916]]) == Deaths == * [[February 17]] &ndash;[[John Martin (painter)|John Martin]], English painter (b. [[1789]]) * [[April 11]] &ndash;[[Karl Adolph von Basedow]], German physician (b. [[1799]]) * [[June 7]] &ndash; [[Charles Baudin]], French admiral (b. [[1784]]) * [[July 6]] &ndash;[[Georg Ohm]], German