1854 in France

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

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).