Bleeding Kansas
1854–1859 · Event
Violent confrontations between pro- and anti-slavery settlers.
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Around 1854
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- 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)