The Prime Ministers’ World Cup (TRIH ep 35)
1853 · Resource
In this episode Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook present and review the "Rest Is History" Prime Ministerial World Cup, a Twitter-run knockout tournament to find the most popular British prime minister among their listeners.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1853
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Crimean War (1853)
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Revolutions of 1848 (1848)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Perry Expedition to Japan (1853)