1850s

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| align="center" colspan=2 | ''' 1830s 1840s - 1850s - 1860s 1870s 1880s
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| align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1856 1857 1858 1859
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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

Railroad s begin to supplant Canal s in the United States as a primary means of transporting goods.

Science

Charles Darwin publishes '' The Origin Of Species '', putting forward the theory of Evolution by natural selection in 1859

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 Flare s 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 Of Great Britain And Ireland , 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 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 .

Gideon T. Stewart attempts to create a Prohibition Party .

World Leaders

Emperor Franz Josef ( Austria-Hungary )

Emperor Napoleon III ( Second French Empire )

Pope Pius IX

Emperor Nicholas I ( Russia )

Emperor Alexander II ( Russia )

Queen Isabella II ( Spain )

Queen Victoria , ( United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Ireland )

Prime Minister Lord John Russell, 1st Earl Russell ( United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Ireland )

Prime Minister George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl Of Aberdeen ( United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Ireland )

Prime Minister Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston ( United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Ireland )

President Millard Fillmore ( United States )

President Franklin Pierce ( United States )

President James Buchanan ( United States )

Nasser-al-Din Shah of Qajar Dynasty ( Persia )

Environmental Changes

Russia

Ukrainian Settlers bring Carniolan Honeybee s to the Primorsky Krai

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