1854 in France

"See also:"
1853 in France,
other events of 1854,
1855 in France.

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Events from the year 1854 in France.

Events

*27 March - United Kingdom declares war on Russia and Crimean War begins.
*28 March - France declares war on Russia.
*16 August - Russian troops in the island of Bomarsund in Åland surrender to French-British troops.
*18 August - Siege of Petropavlovsk by Anglo-French naval forces begins.
*20 September - Battle of Alma, Anglo-French force defeats the Russians in the first battle of the war.
*17 October - Siege of Sevastopol by Anglo-French forces begins.
*25 October - Battle of Balaclava, indecisive battle between the allied forces of the United Kingdom, Second French Empire and the Ottoman Empire against Russia.
*5 November - Battle of Inkerman, Anglo-French forces defeat the Russians.

Births

*29 April - Henri Poincaré, mathematician, theoretical physicist and philosopher of science (d.1912).
*6 September - Georges Picquart, army officer and Minister of War, exposed the truth in the Dreyfus Affair (d.1914).
*20 October - Arthur Rimbaud, poet (d.1891).
*5 November - Paul Sabatier, chemist, shared Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1912 (d.1941).
*17 November - Hubert Lyautey, Marshal of France (d.1934).

Deaths

*3 January - Adolphe Delattre, ornithologist (b.1805).
*28 January - Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui, economist (b.1798).
*5 July - Émile Souvestre, novelist (b.1806).
*2 September - Pierre Alphonse Laurent, mathematician (b.1813).
*14 December - Léon Faucher, politician and economist (b.1803).

Full date unknown

*Jacques-François Ancelot, dramatist (b.1794).
*Louis Léon Jacob, admiral (b.1768).

References