Haussmann's renovation of Paris
1853–1870 · Event
Baron Haussmann's wholesale redesign of Paris under Napoleon III — boulevards, sewers, public parks.
On these timelines: Master, France
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)
- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- British Raj (1858)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)