Battle of Solferino
1859 · Event
Last major battle in which monarchs commanded armies in person; inspired the Red Cross.
On these timelines: Master, France, The Unification of Italy, The Habsburg Dynasty
Around 1859
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- Crimean War (1853)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Perry Expedition to Japan (1853)
- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861)