1850s
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The 1850s was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1850, and ended on December 31, 1859.
From left, clockwise: Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 the U.S. Senate; Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin; Russian forces fight against British, French and Ottoman forces in Sevastopol during the Crimean War; SS Arctic, an American steamship, sinks in the Atlantic Ocean after a collision with a French steamship, SS Vesta in 1854; The Panama Railroad opens in 1855 connecting the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans with a railroad in Central America; Anglo-French and Qing Empire forces engage each other in a four-year long campaign known as the
Crimean War
Michael Faraday delivering a Christmas Lecture at the Royal Institution in London, c. 1855
Crimean War
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The Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom, and Sardinia from October 1853 to February 1856. Geopolitical causes of the war included th
1850s
…a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1850, and ended on December 31, 1859. It was a very turbulent decade, as wars such as the Crimean War, shifted and shook European politics, as well as the expansion of colonization towards the Far East, which also sparked conflicts like the Second Opium…
Attack on the Malakoff, by William Simpson
The naval Battle of Navarino (1827), as depicted by Ambroise Louis Garneray.
Muhammad Ali of Egypt deposed the Ottoman governor and seized control of Egypt for himself
Russian siege of Varna in Ottoman-ruled Bulgaria, July–September 1828