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1854
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1854 (MDCCCLIV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1854th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 854th year of the 2nd millennium, the 54th year of the 19th century, and the 5th year of the 1850s decade. As of the start of 1854, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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October 25: Lord Cardigan sends 600 British cavalry "into the Valley of Death" on disastrous Charge of the Light Brigade; 110 are killed and 162 wounded.
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Events

January–March

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November: Florence Nightingale arrives with 38-nurse team to provide care for Crimean War wounded.

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October–December

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Births

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Paul Ehrlich
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Emil von Behring
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Clara Louise Burnham
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Henri Poincaré
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Orrin Dubbs Bleakley
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Robert Laird Borden

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Oscar Wilde
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Queenie Newall

October–December

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Eliza D. Keith
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Deaths

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Carl Adolph von Basedow
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Georg Ohm

July–December

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Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton

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