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1854 in France
See also: 1853 in France, other events of 1854, 1855 in • 6 September - Georges Picquart, army officer and
France. Minister of War, exposed the truth in the Dreyfus
France.
Events from the year 1854 in France Affair (d.1914).
• 20 October - Arthur Rimbaud, poet (d.1891).
Events • 5 November - Paul Sabatier, chemist, shared Nobel
Prize in Chemistry in 1912 (d.1941).
• 27 March - United Kingdom declares war on Russia • 17 November - Hubert Lyautey, Marshal of France
and Crimean War begins. (d.1934).
• 28 March - France declares war on Russia.
• 16 August - Russian troops in the island of
Bomarsund in Åland surrender to French-British
Deaths
troops. • 3 January - Adolphe Delattre, ornithologist (b.1805).
• 18 August - Siege of Petropavlovsk by Anglo-French • 28 January - Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui, economist
naval forces begins. (b.1798).
• 20 September - Battle of Alma, Anglo-French force • 5 July - Émile Souvestre, novelist (b.1806).
defeats the Russians in the first battle of the war. • 2 September - Pierre Alphonse Laurent,
• 17 October - Siege of Sevastopol by Anglo-French mathematician (b.1813).
forces begins. • 14 December - Léon Faucher, politician and
• 25 October - Battle of Balaclava, indecisive battle economist (b.1803).
between the allied forces of the United Kingdom,
Second French Empire and the Ottoman Empire Full date unknown
against Russia. • Jacques-François Ancelot, dramatist (b.1794).
• 5 November - Battle of Inkerman, Anglo-French • Louis Léon Jacob, admiral (b.1768).
forces defeat the Russians.
References
Births
• 29 April - Henri Poincaré, mathematician, theoretical
physicist and philosopher of science (d.1912).
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