1850s

From the top to the left, in the sense of the clock needles: Henry Clay presents the 1850 Commitment to the United States Senate; Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's cabin; Russian forces fight against British, French and Ottoman forces in Sebastopol during the Crimean War; SS Arctic, a U.S. steamship ship,

The 1850s were a decade that lasted from January 1, 1850, to December 31, 1859. The 1850s were a very turbulent decade, with wars such as the War of Crimea, which changed and shook European politics, as well as the expansion of colonization to the Far East, which also caused conflicts such as the Second Opium War.

Events

• 1853: Acetylsalicylic acid (known popularly as aspirin) was first synthesized by the French chemist Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, combining sodium salicylate with acetyl chloride.
• 1854: The German Institute of Osorno was founded. Revolution of 1854 in Spain
• 1855: The first publication of the Daily Telegraph in London begins in England. In Spain, from the Railroads Act of 1855, the construction of a national network was proposed, in which the foreign capital (the Péreire brothers and the Rothschild Bank especially) is involved.
• 1857 The rebellion of India of 1857, this rebellion of the cypayos led to the dissolution of the British East India Company in 1858 and forced the British to reorganize their army, the financial system and the administration of India. The country then became governed directly by the British Crown with the name of British Raj.

Important characters

• Camilo Benso, Italian politician.
• Charles Darwin, British naturalist.