1850s
Sign in to savethumb|335x335px|From left, clockwise: Henry Clay introduces the [[Compromise of 1850 the U.S. Senate; Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Russian forces fight against British, French and Ottoman forces in Sevastopol during the Crimean War; 'SS Arctic''', an American steamship, sinks in the Atlantic Ocean after a collision with a French steamship, SS Vesta in 1854; The Panama Railroad opens in 1855 connecting the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans with a railroad in Central America; Anglo-French and Qing Empire forces engage each other in a four-year long campaign known as the Second
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The 1850s was a decade marked by significant political compromises in the United States, including Henry Clay's Compromise of 1850, alongside major literary works like Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, and important technological advances such as the opening of the Panama Railroad. The period also saw major international conflicts, including the Crimean War and military campaigns between European powers and the Qing Empire, making it a transformative time globally.
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- Assassinations and attempts
- Science and technology
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- Literature
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thumb|335x335px|From left, clockwise: Henry Clay introduces the [[Compromise of 1850 the U.S. Senate; Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Russian forces fight against British, French and Ottoman forces in Sevastopol during the Crimean War; 'SS Arctic''', an American steamship, sinks in the Atlantic Ocean after a collision with a French steamship, SS Vesta in 1854; The Panama Railroad opens in 1855 connecting the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans with a railroad in Central America; Anglo-French and Qing Empire forces engage each other in a four-year long campaign known as the Second Opium War starting in 1856; Dred Scott v. Sandford denies American citizenship as mandated under the U.S. Constitution to African Americans; Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species in 1859, presenting the idea of natural selection.]]
The 1850s (pronounced "eighteen-fifties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1850, and ended on December 31, 1859.