Dred Scott decision
1857 · Event
Supreme Court rules African-Americans cannot be US citizens.
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Around 1857
- 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)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) begins (1859)
- Emancipation Proclamation (1863)