1850

Events 1850s – Florence Nightingale

Crimean War (1853–56) fought between Imperial Russia and an alliance consisting of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Second French Empire, the Kingdom of Sardinia and the Ottoman Empire. The majority of the conflict takes place around Crimea, on the northern coasts of the Black Sea. On 8 October 1856 the Second Opium War between several western powers and China begins with the Arrow Incident on the Pearl River. The Indian Rebellion of 1857, a revolt against British colonial rule in India. Establishment of the South African Republic (Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek) and the Orange Free State, granting independence to the Voortrekkers by the British. Science and technology 1851 – the Great Exhibition is held at the Crystal Palace, London, considered to be the […]

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Roget’s Thesaurus goes public

Roget’s Thesaurus is a widely used English-language thesaurus, created in 1805 by Peter Mark Roget (1779–1869), British physician, natural theologian and lexicographer. It was released to the public on 29 April 1852. Roget was inspired by the Utilitarian teachings of Jeremy Bentham and wished to help “those who are painfully groping their way and struggling with the difficulties of composition … this work processes to hold out a helping hand”. The Karpeles Library Museum houses the original manuscript in its collection. Roget’s schema of classes and their subdivisions is based on the philosophical work of Leibniz (see Leibniz § Symbolic thought), […]

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