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EVENTS AND TRENDS
Technology
Production of
Steel
revolutionized 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
Neanderthal
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
between proslavery and "
Free-State
" settlers, directly precipitating the
American Civil War
.
Dissolution of the
Mughal Empire
by the British.
156 are killed in
Paris
in a failed
Assassination
attempt on
Napoleon III
, Emperor of the French (1858).
Moldavia
and
Wallachia
are unified and form
Romania
.
Gideon T. Stewart
attempts to create a
Prohibition Party
.
On
1856-10-08
, the
Second Opium War
between several western powers and
China
begins with the ''Arrow Incident'' on the
Pearl River
.
Taiping Rebellion
(
1851
-
1864
) in
Qing
China
.
Second War Of Italian Independence
(
1859
), also known as Franco-Austrian War, or Austro-Sardinian War.
WORLD LEADERS
Emperor
Franz Josef
(
Austria-Hungary
)
Emperor
Napoleon III
(
Second French Empire
)
King
Frederick William IV
(
Germany
)
Pope Pius IX
Queen
Maria II
(
Portugal
)
King
Peter V
(
Portugal
)
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
(
United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Ireland
)
Prime Minister
Lord Aberdeen
(
United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Ireland
)
Prime Minister
Lord 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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