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Britian and China: First Opium War
The First Opium War (1839–42), also known as as the Anglo-Chinese War, was fought between Britain and China over their conflicting viewpoints on diplomatic relations, trade, and the administration of justice for foreign nationals. -
Britain: Britania
Samuel Cunard's first trans-Atlantic liner, the Britannia, makes inaugural crossing in 14 days 8 hours. -
United Kingdom: Queen Victoria Marries her first Cousin
Queen Victoria married her first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha -
France: Oscar-Claude Monet Is Born
Oscar-Claude Monet, French Impressionist Painter, is born in Paris, France -
Ireland: Irish Potato Famine
Start of the Irish Potato Famine -
Germany: Neptune Discovered
Neptune is Discovered by Johann Gottfried Galle (based on predictions by John Couch Adams and Urbain Leverrier) -
Scotland: Chloroform first used
Scottish physician Sir James Simpson of the University of Edinburgh was the first to use chloroform as an anesthetic in 1847. -
Scotland: Arthur Conan Doyle born
Arthur Conan Doyle was born May 22, 1859 in Edinburgh, Scotland. -
United Kingdom: On The Origin of Species Published
On the Origin of Species, published on 24 November 1859, is a work of scientific literature by Charles Darwin which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. -
Unitd Kingdom: Alice In Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland), written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll is publshed. -
Russia: Dmitri Mendeleev formulates periodic table
Dmitri Mendeleev formulated the Periodic Law, created his own version of the periodic table of elements, and used it to correct the properties of some already discovered elements and also to predict the properties of eight elements yet to be discovered. -
Eurasia: Suez Canal is Opened
The Suez Canal is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. Opened in November 1869 after 10 years of construction, it allows ships to travel between Europe and eastern Asia without navigating around Africa thereby reducing the sea voyage distance between Europe and India by about 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi). -
Germany: Franco-Prussian War
Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War - War of 1870 (19
Napoleon and his Prime Minister, Émile Ollivier, for their parts sought war to solve political disunity in France. On 16 July 1870, the French parliament voted to declare war on the German Kingdom of Prussia and hostilities began three days later -
Russia: Gupta Longati Discovers Brain Cancer
The discovery by Gupta Longati was a very significant one in the world of medicine since brain tumors and brain cancer does need to be treated very differently -
Indonesia: Krakatoa Volcano Erupts
The eruption of the volcano at Krakatoa in the western Pacific Ocean was a major disaster by any measure. The entire island of Krakatoa was simply blown apart, and the resulting tsunami killed tens of thousands of people on other islands in the vicinity.
