Philippe Pétain
1856–1951 · Person
Hero of Verdun who became collaborationist Vichy head of state.
On these timelines: Master, France, People
Around 1856
- 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)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)