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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Around 1851
- American Civil War (1861)
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- Crimean War (1853)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Revolutions of 1848 (1848)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Perry Expedition to Japan (1853)