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| 1 | 1854 | - 1854: UK - The Northcote-Trevelyan civil service report is published
- 1854: UK - John Tyndall demonstrates the principles of fiber optics.
- 1854: UK - Crimean War begins, as Britain and France attempt to defend European interests in the Middle East against Russia
- 1854: CA - Establishment of the African Baptist Association of Nova Scotia
- 1854: NL - Lijfstraffen geschrapt uit het strafrecht. De doodstraf wordt beperkt tot ophanging boven een luik.
- 1854: NL - Het KNMI wordt bij koninklijk besluit van Koning Willem III opgericht.
- 27 Jan 1854: CA - The Great Western Railway opens, linking Toronto, Hamilton and Windsor.
- 27 Oct 1854: CA - A Great Western Railway passenger train collides with the tail end of gravel train at Baptiste Creek, Canada West. At least 52 people are killed.
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| 2 | 1855 | - 1855: UK - John Snow, investigating London's piped water supply, showed graphically that cholera could be transmitted by water from a particular pump.
- 1855: UK - Palmerston's first government comes to power
- 1 Jan 1855: CA - own is renamed Ottawa.
- 8 Mar 1855: CA/US - A bridge over the Niagara River near Niagara Falls is completed
- 17 Apr 1855: CA - Charlottetown incorporated as a city
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