Bleeding Kansas
1854–1859 · Event
Violent confrontations between pro- and anti-slavery settlers.
On these timelines: Master, American Civil War, Slavery & Abolition
Around 1854
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Crimean War (1853)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- Revolutions of 1848 (1848)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Perry Expedition to Japan (1853)