Kerosene patented
1854 · Event
Canadian geologist Abraham Gesner patents the process for making kerosene from coal; cheap lamp fuel that displaces whale oil and spurs the rise of the oil industry.
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Around 1854
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- Crimean War (1853)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Revolutions of 1848 (1848)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Perry Expedition to Japan (1853)