Queen Victoria’s Revenge: The Mad Emperor of Abyssinia (TRIH ep 705, part 1)
1855 · Resource
Who was Emperor Tewodros II, the colourful and controversial Emperor of Abyssinia? Why did he brutally imprison a number of British emissaries, and how did Queen Victoria respond? And, how would this spark one of the most ambitious expeditions undertaken by the British Empire…?
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Around 1855
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Revolutions of 1848 (1848)
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- Crimean War (1853)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)