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| 1855 |
| | | The Christmas issue of the Illustrated London News includes chromolithographs, introducing the era of colour journalism | |
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| 1855 |
| | | After a siege of nearly a year the Russians abandon Sebastopol, but the Turkish alliance is too exhausted to pursue the conflict | |
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| 1855 |
| | | Tennyson publishes a long narrative poem, Maud, a section of which ('Come into the garden, Maud') becomes famous as a song | |
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| 1855 |
| | | English author Anthony Trollope publishes The Warden, the first in his series of six Barsetshire novels | |
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| 1856 |
| | | The treaty of Paris ends the Crimean War, limiting Russia's special powers in relation to Turkey | |
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| 1856 |
| | | The first Neanderthal man to be discovered is unearthed by quarry workers in the Neander valley, near Düsseldorf | |
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| 1856 |
| | | Abolitionist John Brown presides over the lynching of five pro-slavery men at Pottawatomie in Kansas | |
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| 1856 |
| | | An American adventurer, William Walker, wins control of the government in Nicaragua and for a year rules as president | |
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| 1856 |
| | | Victoria and Albert complete their fairy-tale castle at Balmoral, adding greatly to the nation's romantic view of Scotland | |
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| 1856 |
| | | Gustave Flaubert publishes Madame Bovary, a novel of frustrated romanticism in a provincial French context | |
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