The Ghost Map (Johnson, 2006)
1854 · Resource
Steven Johnson's account of the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak and how John Snow's map of the dead proved cholera travelled in water, years before germ theory could explain why.
On these timelines: Resources: Combined, Popular history books
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)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)