- 1854 in France
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1853 in France ,
other events of 1854,1855 in France .----
Events from the year
1854 inFrance .Events
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27 March -United Kingdom declares war onRussia andCrimean War begins.
*28 March -France declares war onRussia .
*16 August -Russia n troops in the island of Bomarsund inÅland 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 theOttoman Empire against Russia.
*5 November -Battle of Inkerman , Anglo-French forces defeat the Russians.Births
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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 theDreyfus Affair (d.1914).
*20 October -Arthur Rimbaud , poet (d.1891).
*5 November - Paul Sabatier, chemist, sharedNobel Prize in Chemistry in 1912 (d.1941).
*17 November -Hubert Lyautey ,Marshal of France (d.1934).Deaths
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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
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Jacques-François Ancelot , dramatist (b.1794).
*Louis Léon Jacob , admiral (b.1768).References
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