Battle of Solferino
1859 · Event
Last major battle in which monarchs commanded armies in person; inspired the Red Cross.
On these timelines: Master, France
Around 1859
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Commodore Perry opens Japan (1853)
- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861)
- British Raj (1858)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) begins (1859)
- Emancipation Proclamation (1863)