The Crimean War
Explore The Crimean War on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- Crimean War (1853)
- Crimean War siege of Sevastopol (1854)
- Florence Nightingale at Scutari (1854)
- Battle of Balaclava and the Charge of the Light Brigade (1854)
- The fall of Sevastopol (1855)
- Britain and France declare war on Russia (1854)
- The Sinope massacre (1853)
- Russell's dispatches bring down the government (1855)
- Treaty of Paris (1856) (1856)
- Battle of Inkerman (1854)
- Fenton photographs the war (1855)
- Mary Seacole opens the British Hotel (1855)
- Battle of the Alma (1854)
- Lord Palmerston's first premiership (1855)
- Tennyson's The Charge of the Light Brigade (1854)
- Lord Aberdeen's premiership (1852)