PEACH

History

1850

Population: 1.24 Billion*

Climate: End of "Little Ice Age"
Entertainment: Writers include EB Browning, Emerson, Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter, Alexander Herzen, Ibsen, Otto Ludwig, Turgenev, Schopenhauer, Herbert Spencer (sociology), Longfellow, William Wordsworth The Prelude
Art includes Corot, Courbet's "The Stone Breakers" (new realist style), Goya (posthumous), Menzel, Millais, Millet "The Sower"
Era of Neo-Gothic architectural style
Music includes George F Bristow "Rip Van Winkle" opera, Schumann, Wagner, Foundation of Bach-Gesellschaft to publish complete works of JS Bach
Medicine: Early anesthetics invented
Start of third plague pandemic killing 300 million by 1950
Start of worldwide measles pandemic killing over 200 million by current times
Paranormal: William Burgess' child found buried in mineshaft... After glowing light led investigators to the body
Science: Bernard demonstrates glycogenic function of the liver
Hermann von Helmholtz establishes speed of nervous impulses
Clausius formulates second law of thermodynamics and kinetic theory of gases
Chebyshev writes about primary numbers
Technology: RW Bunsen produces gas burner
Krupp produces all-steel guns
Deaths: Composer Adalbert Gyrowetz, Sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow, Marie "Madame" Tussaud, William Wordsworth, Poet Adam Gottlieb Ochlenschlager, Statesman John C. Calhoun, Author Honore de Balzac, Poet Nikolaus Lenau, President Zachary Taylor, King Louis Philippe of France, Oliver Cowdery

General: U.S. and Britain draw up plans for canal between Atlantic and Pacific (not considered too strongly until after Spanish American War)
Brazil: Begin 39-year era of progress under Pedro II
Canada: First sighting of Ogopogo the snakelike beast of Lake Okanagan
Mexico: Britian recognizes independence of Chan Santa Cruz Maya (eastern Yucatan) after Caste War of the Yucatán

China: Taipeng rebellion begins in Jintian and goes for 14 years - Hung Hiu-tsuen proclaims self emperor and attacks Peking and takes Nanking and Shanghai
India: Railroad crosses India
Japan: West attempts to establish contact with Japan again

General: Prussia and Denmark sign Peace of Berlin on Schleswig-Holstein
Austro-Hungarian customs union formed
France: Old-age insurance introduced
German States: Liberal constitution in Prussia
Treaty of Olmutz – German Confederation restored under Austrian leadership
Church council manages Protestant churches in Prussia
German old national assembly (Diet) reintroduced at Frankfurt
Great Britain: Don Pacifico Affair – British foreign secretary Lord Palmerston defends the rights of British citizens abroad
Koh-i-noor diamond presented to Queen Victoria and has it recut from 186.5 carats to 108.93
Public Libraries Act
Stephenson's cast-iron railroad bridge at Newcastle opened
Joseph Paxton builds Crystal Palace in London
King of Prussia abolishes constitution
School of Mines in London established – later College of Science and Technology
Britain make 60 hour workweek for women
Italian States: Camillo Cavour becomes minister in Piedmont

Australia: Britain transfers some powers to four major Australian colonies
U of Sydney established