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: The Crimean War, Master, United Kingdom (combined), England, Anatolia / Byzantium / Ottoman / Turkey
More from The Crimean War
- The fall of Sevastopol (1855)
- Britain and France declare war on Russia (1854)
- The Sinope massacre (1853)
- Russell's dispatches bring down the government (1855)
- Battle of Inkerman (1854)
- Fenton photographs the war (1855)
- Mary Seacole opens the British Hotel (1855)
- Battle of the Alma (1854)
Around 1853
- Revolutions of 1848 (1848)
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Perry Expedition to Japan (1853)
- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861)