Crimean War
1853–1856 · Event
Britain and France defeat Russia in Crimea; brutal mismanagement (Light Brigade, Nightingale's hospitals) reshapes army and nursing.
On these timelines: Master, United Kingdom (combined), England, Anatolia / Byzantium / Ottoman / Turkey, Russia & the USSR
Around 1853
- 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)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)