God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (Spence, 1996)
1851 · Resource
Jonathan Spence on Hong Xiuquan and the apocalyptic Taiping Rebellion that killed tens of millions.
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- 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) begins (1859)