Queen Victoria's Revenge: The Abyssinia Expedition (TRIH eps 705-706)
1855–1868 · Resource
A two-part series on the British expedition to Abyssinia: why Emperor Tewodros II imprisoned British envoys, how Queen Victoria's government answered, and how Sir Robert Napier's army crossed the Ethiopian highlands to storm the fortress of Magdala in 1868.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1855
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Crimean War (1853)
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- Revolutions of 1848 (1848)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)