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1850s

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades: 1820s 1830s 1840s - 1850s - 1860s 1870s 1880s
Years: 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1856 1857 1858 1859

Contents

1 Events and Trends

1.1 Technology
1.2 Science
1.3 War, peace and politics

2 World Leaders

3 Environmental Changes

Events and Trends

Technology

Production of steel revolutionised by invention of the Bessemer process
Benjamin Silliman fractionates petroleum by distillation for the first time
First transatlantic telegraph cable laid
First safety elevator installed by Elisha Otis

Science

Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species, putting forward the theory of evolution by natural selection
Epidemiology begins when John Snow traces the source of an outbreak of cholera in London to a contaminated water pump.
Discovery of Neandertal fossils in Neanderthal, Germany
Solar flares discovered by Richard Christopher Carrington

War, peace and politics

Crimean war (1854 - 1856) fought between Imperial Russia and an alliance consisting of the United Kingdom, the Second French Empire, the Kingdom of Sardinia and the Ottoman Empire. The majority of the conflict takes place around Crimea, on the northern coasts of the Black Sea.
The Indian Mutiny: revolt against British colonial rule in India
Dissolution of the Mughal Empire by the British.
156 are killed in Paris in a failed assassination attempt on Napoleon III, Emperor of France
Moldavia and Wallachia are unified and form Romania.

World Leaders

Emperor Franz Josef (Austria-Hungary)
Emperor Napoleon III (France)
Pope Pius IX
Emperor Nicholas I (Russia)
Emperor Alexander II (Russia)
Queen Victoria, (United Kingdom)
Prime Minister Lord John Russell (United Kingdom)
Prime Minister Lord Aberdeen (United Kingdom)
Prime Minister Lord Palmerston (United Kingdom)
President Millard Fillmore (United States)
President Franklin Pierce (United States)
President James Buchanan (United States)

Environmental Changes

Russia

Ukrainian settlers bring Carniolan honeybees to the Primorsky Krai

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