Guy de Maupassant
1850–1893 · Person
Master of the French short story; protégé of Flaubert.
On these timelines: Master, France, People
Around 1850
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- Crimean War (1853)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- Revolutions of 1848 (1848)
- Perry Expedition to Japan (1853)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- British Raj (1858)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)