1850s

Events

The 1848 was elected president of France elected Louis Napoleon can be 1,852 to Emperor Napoleon III. proclaim and establish the Second French Empire .
The Peace of Berlin on July 2, 1850 ended the Schleswig-Holstein War between Prussia and Denmark .
1853 to 1856 : Crimean War between Russia and the Ottoman Empire , Great Britain, France and Sardinia-Piedmont .
In 1853 the Japanese ports are opened to trade with the west.
The peace of Paris in 1856 as a result of the Crimean War led to a new order in Europe .
From 1857 to 1859 the first world economic crisis developed .

In 1859 Charles Darwin published “ On the Origin of Species ”, the theory of evolution through natural selection .

The epidemiology begins when John Snow discovers the cause of the cholera outbreak in London .

Johann Carl Fuhlrott discovers fossils in the Neandertal near Düsseldorf.

Vincent van Gogh , Dutch painter
Heinrich Heine , German poet
Napoleon III , Emperor in France
Franz Joseph I , Emperor in Austria-Hungary
Friedrich Wilhelm IV. , King of Prussia
Otto von Bismarck , German politician
Victor Emmanuel II , King in Italy
Isabella II , Queen of Spain
Pius IX , Pope
Nicholas I , Tsar in Russia
Alexander II , Tsar in Russia
Victoria , Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Benjamin Disraeli , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
James Buchanan , President of the United States
Franklin Pierce , President of the United States
Millard Fillmore , President of the United States
Naser ad-Din Shah , Shah in Persia
Kōmei , Emperor of Japan
Xianfeng , Emperor of China

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