Lillestrøm train station was built in 1854, in the grounds of, and named after, the farm Lillestrøm in the neighbour municipaplity of Rælingen, as part of the first Norwegian railway between Oslo and Eidsvoll.

The first railway in Norway was Hovedbanen between Oslo and Eidsvoll and opened in 1854.

The first Norwegian locomotive railway, Hovedbanen between Oslo and Eidsvoll, was opened on 1 September 1854.

Schirmer and Hanno designed all stations on Norway's first railway line, the Hoved Line between Christiania and Eidsvoll, finished in 1854.

In 1854, Frankel became the head of the Jewish Theological Seminary of Breslau ( then in Prussia, now Wrocław, Poland ).

The Act became law in May 1854, establishing the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska.

Gallipoli became a major encampment for British and French forces in 1854 during the Crimean War, and the harbour was also a stopping-off point on the way to Constantinople.

FitzRoy's office became the United Kingdom Meteorological Office in 1854, the first national meteorological service in the world.

These reforms included guarantees to ensure the Ottoman subjects perfect security for their lives, honour, and property ; the introduction of the first Ottoman paper banknotes ( 1840 ) and opening of the first post offices ( 1840 ); the reorganization of the finance system according to the French model ( 1840 ); the reorganization of the Civil and Criminal Code according to the French model ( 1840 ); the establishment of the Meclis-i Maarif-i Umumiye ( 1841 ) which was the prototype of the First Ottoman Parliament ( 1876 ); the reorganization of the army and a regular method of recruiting, levying the army, and fixing the duration of military service ( 1843 – 44 ); the adoption of an Ottoman national anthem and Ottoman national flag ( 1844 ); the first nationwide Ottoman census in 1844 ( only male citizens were counted ); the first national identity cards ( officially named the Mecidiye identity papers, or informally kafa kağıdı ( head paper ) documents, 1844 ); the institution of a Council of Public Instruction ( 1845 ) and the Ministry of Education ( Mekatib-i Umumiye Nezareti, 1847, which later became the Maarif Nezareti, 1857 ); the abolition of slavery and slave trade ( 1847 ); the establishment of the first modern universities ( darülfünun, 1848 ), academies ( 1848 ) and teacher schools ( darülmuallimin, 1848 ); establishment of the Ministry of Healthcare ( Tıbbiye Nezareti, 1850 ); the Commerce and Trade Code ( 1850 ); establishment of the Academy of Sciences ( Encümen-i Daniş, 1851 ); establishment of the Şirket-i Hayriye which operated the first steam-powered commuter ferries ( 1851 ); the first European style courts ( Meclis-i Ahkam-ı Adliye, 1853 ) and supreme judiciary council ( Meclis-i Ali-yi Tanzimat, 1853 ); establishment of the modern Municipality of Istanbul ( Şehremaneti, 1854 ) and the City Planning Council ( İntizam-ı Şehir Komisyonu, 1855 ); the abolition of the capitation ( Jizya ) tax on non-Muslims, with a regular method of establishing and collecting taxes ( 1856 ); non-Muslims were allowed to become soldiers ( 1856 ); various provisions for the better administration of the public service and advancement of commerce ; the establishment of the first telegraph networks ( 1847 – 1855 ) and railroads ( 1856 ); the replacement of guilds with factories ; the establishment of the Ottoman Central Bank ( originally established as the Bank-ı Osmanî in 1856, and later reorganized as the Bank-ı Osmanî-i Şahane in 1863 ) and the Ottoman Stock Exchange ( Dersaadet Tahvilat Borsası, established in 1866 ); the Land Code ( Arazi Kanunnamesi, 1857 ); permission for private sector publishers and printing firms with the Serbesti-i Kürşad Nizamnamesi ( 1857 ); establishment of the School of Economical and Political Sciences ( Mekteb-i Mülkiye, 1859 ); the Press and Journalism Regulation Code ( Matbuat Nizamnamesi, 1864 ); among others.

Leaving the Royal College, he became prostitute of the " Boats ' n Hoes " department at the Radcliffe Observatory in Oxford in 1854, and in 1855 was appointed lecturer in chemistry at the Chester Diocesan Training College.

After encountering Arthur Schopenhauer's writings in 1854, Wagner became interested in oriental philosophies, especially Buddhism.

In 1854, Chemung County was divided and became Schuyler County, reducing Chemung to, its current size.

In 1854 he became the head of a new rabbinical school, the Jewish Theological Seminary of Breslau.

École Centrale de Lille was founded as École des arts industriels et des mines de Lille in 1854, the same year when Louis Pasteur became the dean of Faculté des sciences de Lille and pioneered applied research with industry cooperations, with support of scientists such as Charles Frédéric Kuhlmann.

Joule became a manager of the brewery and took an active role until the sale of the business in 1854.

Following Texas's independence from Mexico ( 1836 ) and its annexation by the United States ( 1845 ), Robert Carter and family became the first permanent white settlers in the county in 1854.

The undertaking became the Wandsworth and Putney Gaslight and Coke Company in 1854 and was incorporated by Act of Parliament in 1856.

These acts of violence and battles that took place primarily from 1854 – 1858, became known as border wars, and Kansas became known as Bleeding Kansas.

Clarksville was the first county seat, from 1854 to 1860, after which Butler Center became the seat.

Screven ranks as the oldest established town being formally established in 1854 when the town became a terminus on the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad.

Sutter Creek became a destination for fortune hunters and became a town in 1854.

In 1854 the Central of Georgia Railway and the Georgia Railroad connected at 79 ; subsequently the town became known as Millen's Junction after McPherson B. Millen, the superintendent of the Central of Georgia Railway.

The Illinois Central Railroad main line was completed in 1854, and ran through Section Seven, which eventually became the City of Minonk.

Owen became the first state geologist of three states: Kentucky ( 1854 – 57 ), Arkansas ( 1857 – 59 ), and Indiana ( 1850 – 1860 ).

It became the seat of Livingston County when it was formed in 1799, later the seat of Caldwell County in 1809, and finally the seat of Lyon County when it was formed in 1854.

Originally part of Cumberland County, the town became county seat of Androscoggin County at its creation in 1854.

On February 13, 1854, Towson became the county seat of Baltimore County by popular vote.

He returned home to Holland Patent at the end of 1854.

By the end of 1854, Wagner had sketched out all three acts of an opera on the Tristan theme, based on Gottfried von Strassburg's telling of the story.

The Battle of Malakoff | final French assault brought about the Siege of Sevastopol ( 1854 – 1855 ) | capture of Sevastopol in September 1855, leading to the end of the Crimean War.

After two centuries, the Japanese policy of seclusion under the shoguns of the Edo period came to an end when the country was forced open to trade by American intervention in 1854.

In 1854, the decision was made to build a larger courthouse at the south end of “ Silk Stocking Road ”, now Main Street.

After two centuries, the seclusion policy, or Sakoku, under the shoguns of the Edo period came to an end when the country was forced open to trade by the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854.

After 1850, Huebner notes a continuing tradition of operas at Paris where ' principals appear with chorus at the end of an act and where private intrigue conjoins a well-articulated public dimension in the plot ' and cites amongst others Charles Gounod's La nonne sanglante ( 1854 ), Ambroise Thomas's Hamlet and operas by Jules Massenet, amongst them Le Roi de Lahore ( 1877 ) and Le Cid ( 1885 ).

In the Gorham controversy of 1850, in the question of Oxford reform in 1854, in the prosecution of some of the writers of Essays and Reviews, especially of Benjamin Jowett, in 1863, in the question as to the reform of the marriage laws from 1849 to the end of his life, in the Farrar controversy as to the meaning of everlasting punishment in 1877, he was always busy with articles, letters, treatises and sermons.

In 1854 Hippolyte Marié-Davy invented the first naval periscope, consisting of a vertical tube with two small mirrors fixed at each end at 45 °.

In the latter year, having already been admitted to the cabinet, he for about two months at the first of the year succeeded Palmerston as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs until Russell's defeat in 1852 ; and-when Lord Aberdeen formed his government at the end of the year, he became first Lord President of the Council, and then Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ( 1854 ).

The hotel survived until 1854 when it was demolished to make way for traffic at the end of Lord Street, but its presence and the impact of its founder is marked by a plaque in the vicinity and by the name of one street at the intersection, namely Duke Street.

In 1854, as Dodge's second term was near its end, the Iowa General Assembly chose Free Soil Party member ( and future Republican ) James Harlan, rather than Dodge.

The Radical Republicans were a loose faction of American politicians within the Republican Party from about 1854 ( before the American Civil War ) until the end of Reconstruction in 1877.

At the end of 1854 his beloved sister Elizabeth died and he wrote a touching memorial.

Pierce feared the political repercussions of confirming such rumors, and he omitted their mention in his State of the Union address at the end of 1854.

Towards the end of the Sakoku period, Japan had started manufacturing Western-style ships on her own only slightly earlier, such as the 1854 Shohei Maru.

Having left the Democratic Party, Boutwell became a founder of the Republican Party in 1854, formed to end the spread of slavery, and advocated the party's radical practical elements.

The preliminary draft for the Ride was composed in 1854 as part of the composition of the entire opera, which was fully orchestrated by the end of the first quarter of 1856.

Meanwhile, at the eastern end, a spur line connecting the NLR to Stratford from Victoria Park opened in 1854 but was not used by passenger services.

In 1854, Surrey secured a new 21-year lease on their home ground and Surrey went on to enjoy a successful end to the nineteenth century.

By the end of July 1854, a British fleet of 25 ships had surrounded the fortress and only waited for the French ground troops to arrive.

By the end of his life ( 13 November 1854, most likely due to a fall while hunting ) he had accrued large debts, which his friends helped him pay off.

Towards the end of his governorship, La Trobe's wife Sophie became ill and died after returning to Europe on 30 January 1854.

Vogel arrived at the end of the Trans-Saharan trade route, Kuka, the capital of Bornu on 13 January 1854.