PEACH

History

1855

Population: 1.26 Billion*

Entertainment: Writers include Robert Browning, Dickens, Dumas, Gustav Freytag, Longfellow Song of Hiawatha, WH Prescott, Tennyson "Maud" and other poems, Anthony Trollope, Turgenev, Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass, Alexander Bain (senses), Johann Droysen (Prussian policies), Henry Milman (Latin Christianity), Pierre Le Play (working-class), Herbert Spencer (psychology), Jakob Bruckhardt (art history), ir Richard Burton writes Pilgrimage to Mecca travel book
Music includes Berlioz "Te Deum", Verdi, Wagner, Liszt
Medicine: Florence Nightingale introduces hygienic standards into military hospitals during Crimean War
Third Pandemic of Bubonic Plague worldwide (considered over in 1959)
Science: Matthew Maury writes about geography of the sea
Virchow proposes all living cells come from other cells
Faults recognized as source of earthquakes
Bunsen burner invented
Technology: Parkes invents plastic
Audemars patents rayon
David E Hughes invents printing telegraph
RS Lawrence constructs turret lathe
Killer develops tungsten steel
Transportation: First iron Cunard steamer crosses Atlantic in less than 10 days
Deaths: Artist Jean Baptiste Isabey, Austronomer Karl Gauss, Author Mary Russel Mitford, Lawyer John C. Spencer, Composer Pedro Albeniz, Poet Adam Mickiewicz, Philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, Charlotte Bronte, Czar Nicholas I

General: Livingstone discovers Victoria Falls on Zambezi River
Egypt: Ferdinand de Lesseps granted concession by France to construct Suez Canal
Ethiopia: Beginning of reign of Emperor Theodore
Tasmania: Van Diemen's Land renamed Tasmania

China: Taiping Rebellion ends
Miao rebellion against Manchu in Guizhou China, The Christian, nationalist Hakka rebel against Manchu as well
Japan: Quake and tsunami kills over 4700
Siam: King Mongkut opens Siam to British trade

General: Electric telegraph between London and Balaklava
France: Napoleon II establishes weather observation stations
Paris World's Fair
Courbet creates "Pavillon du Realisme" at Paris World Fair
Great Britain: End of St. Bartholomew's Fair at Smithfield in London (after running 722 years)
Professorship of technology created at Edinburgh
Founding of "The Daily Telegraph" in London
London sewers modernized after cholera outbreak
Crimean War continues
Russia: Death of Czar Nicholas I and Alexander II rules
Russians capitulate at Sebastopol – British and French enter Black Sea town