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| 1854 |
| | | A London editor decides to send a reporter, William Howard Russell ('Russell of The Times'), to the Crimean front | |
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| 1854 |
| | | Thoreau publishes an account of his two years of self-sufficient transcendentalism in his hut at Walden Pond | |
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| 1854 |
| | | British and French troops land at Sebastopol, to besiege the port, and win a limited victory over the Russians at the river Alma | |
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| 1854 |
| | | Florence Nightingale, responding to reports of horrors in the Crimea, sets sail with a party of twenty-eight nurses | |
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| 1854 |
| | | An inconclusive battle at Balaklava includes the Charge of the Light Brigade, with British cavalry recklessly led towards Russian guns | |
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| 1854 |
| | | An inconclusive engagement at Inkerman means that the allies in the Crimea have to dig in for the winter besieging Sebastopol | |
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| 1854 |
| | | Within six weeks of the Charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimea, Tennyson publishes a poem finding heroism in the disaster | |
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| 1854 |
| | | Pope Pius IX issues a papal bull declaring that the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary is to be an article of faith for Catholics | |
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| 1855 |
| | | Jamaican-born nurse Mary Seacole sets up her own 'British Hotel' in the Crimea to provide food and nursing for soldiers in need | |
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| 1855 |
| | | Roger Fenton travels out from England to the Crimea – the world's first war photographer | |
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