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1854 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1854 in the United Kingdom .
Incumbents
Events
21 January - Loss of the RMS Tayleur - 380 drowned, later dubbed "the first Titanic ".
17 February - The British recognise the independence of the Orange Free State .
27 February - Britain sends Russia an ultimatum to withdraw from two Ottoman provinces it had conquered, Moldavia and Wallachia .
11 March - Royal Navy fleet sails from Britain under Vice Admiral Sir Charles Napier .
28 March - United Kingdom declares war on Russia thus joining the Crimean War .[1]
April to May - An epidemic of cholera in London kills 10,000. Dr John Snow traces the source of one outbreak (that killed 500) to a single water pump , validating his theory that cholera is water-borne, and forming the starting point for epidemiology .
1 April - Hard Times begins serialisation in Charles Dickens 's magazine, Household Words .
26 April - 'National Day of Fast and Humiliation' held, in support of the Crimean War.[2]
10 June - The Crystal Palace reopens in Sydenham , South London .[3]
21 June - Crimean War: In the battle at Bomarsund in Åland , Royal Navy mate Charles Davis Lucas throws a live Russian artillery shell overboard by hand before it explodes — the incident is the first that will be retroactively awarded the Victoria Cross in 1857 .[3]
22 July - Discovery of the asteroid 30 Urania by John Russell Hind .
16 August - Crimean War: Russian troops in the island of Bomarsund in Åland surrender to French -British troops.
20 September - Crimean War: At the Alma , the French-British alliance wins the first battle of the war.[3]
6 October - The great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead is ignited by a spectacular explosion.
17 October - Crimean War: Siege of Sevastopol begins.[2]
21 October - Florence Nightingale leaves for Crimea with 38 other nurses.
25 October - Crimean War: The Battle of Balaclava occurs, overall a victory for the allies, but it included the disastrous cavalry Charge of the Light Brigade .
5 November - Crimean War: Russians defeated at the Battle of Inkerman .[1]
20 December - In the case of Talbot v. Laroche , pioneer of photography William Fox Talbot failed in asserting that the collodion process infringed his calotype patent . The case allowed more freedom for other early photographers to experiment and accelerated the development of photography.[4]
Unknown dates
Publications
Births
Deaths
8 January - William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford , general and politician (born 1768 )
17 February - John Martin , painter (born 1789 )
6 March - Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry , soldier, politician and nobleman (born 1778 )
13 March - Thomas Noon Talfourd , jurist (born 1795 )
3 April - John Wilson , writer (born 1785 )
15 April - Arthur Aikin , chemist and mineralogist (born 1773 )
29 April - Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey , general (born 1768 )
12 November - Charles Kemble , actor (born 1775 )
18 November - Edward Forbes , naturalist (born 1815 )
25 November - John Gibson Lockhart , writer and editor (born 1794 )
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