Presidency of Franklin Pierce
1853–1857 · Event
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) reignited the slavery crisis.
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Around 1853
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Commodore Perry opens Japan (1853)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- British Raj (1858)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) begins (1859)