| YEAR |
FRANCE |
DAUMIER |
THE WORLD |
USA |
| 1850 |
Emergence of Realist Painters: Jean-Francois Millet (1814-1875),
Gustave Courbet (1819-1877)
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Idylles Parlementaires |
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| 1851 |
Louis Napoleon overthrows the republic and becomes Emperor Napoleon III |
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| 1852 |
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2nd Anglo-Burmese War |
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| 1853 |
Baron Haussmann begins project to "re-make" Paris into a modern city |
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Crimean War (1853-56) |
Franklin Pierce inaugurated President |
| 1854 |
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| 1855 |
Exposition Universelle (Paris)
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| 1856 |
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| 1857 |
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Sepoy Rebellion (1857-58) |
Currier & Ives prints for sale |
| 1858 |
Felice Orsini attempts to assassinate Napoleon III;
Blessed Virgin Mary reportedly appears to Bernadette Soubirous in Lourdes;
Nadar (Gaspard-Felix Tournachon) takes first aerial photographs, in a balloon over Paris
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| 1859 |
Franco-Austrian War |
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Darwin: Origin of the Species |
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