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British and French warships move up through the Straits and enter the Black Sea in support of Turkey
Britain and France enter the war between Turkey and Russia, on the Turkish side
British and French troops land at Sebastopol, to besiege the port, and win a limited victory over the Russians at the river Alma
After a siege of nearly a year the Russians abandon Sebastopol, but the Turkish alliance is too exhausted to pursue the conflict
The treaty of Paris ends the Crimean War, limiting Russia's special powers in relation to Turkey
Victoria and Albert complete their fairy-tale castle at Balmoral, adding greatly to the nation's romantic view of Scotland
Gustave Flaubert publishes Madame Bovary, a novel of frustrated romanticism in a provincial French context
Longfellow uses a romantic story of early New England for his narrative poem The Courtship of Miles Standish
The principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia merge as a single new entity, to be called Romania
Edward FitzGerald publishes The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, romantic translations of the work of the Persian poet
Rome becomes the capital city of the entire Italian peninsula, for the first time since the Roman empire
Susan B. Anthony presents a Woman's Declaration of Rights at the US centennial Fourth of July celebrations
Whistler finds romance in Battersea Bridge
Romania achieves a new status as an internationally recognized independent nation
A secret revolutionary group (Union and Progress, later known as the Young Turks) is formed in Salonika in the Ottoman empire
9-year-old Daisy Ashford imagines an adult romance and high society in The Young Visiters
Canada's first French-speaking and Roman Catholic premier, Wilfrid Laurier, wins the first of four consecutive spells as premier
John Kelly (1840-1904) designs All Saints, Petersham, in the style of a Romanesque basilica
Maurice Ravel sets to music romantic oriental poems by Tristan Klingsor in his song-cycle Shéhérazade
The German neuropathologist Alois Alzheimer identifies physical symptoms in the brain of a dead woman who had presenile dementia
The Young Turks of Salonika organize a successful uprising against the autocracy of the Ottoman sultan
Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria declares his country's independence from Ottoman rule and calls himself Tsar Ferdinand I
The heroine of H.G. Wells' novel Ann Veronica is a determined example of the New Woman
In his poem Cargoes John Masefield compares a 'dirty British coaster' with two romantic boats from the past
A national uprising against Turkish rule in Albania launches a full-scale Balkan war
