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Events relating to england
English physician John Snow proves that cholera is spread by infected water (from a pump in London's Broad Street)
Britain and France enter the war between Turkey and Russia, on the Turkish side
A London editor decides to send a reporter, William Howard Russell ('Russell of The Times'), to the Crimean front
Florence Nightingale, responding to reports of horrors in the Crimea, sets sail with a party of twenty-eight nurses
Within six weeks of the Charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimea, Tennyson publishes a poem finding heroism in the disaster
On their return to England, Marian Evans and G.H. Lewes pretend to be married (Lewes is unable to get a divorce)
Roger Fenton travels out from England to the Crimea – the world's first war photographer
Lord Palmerston heads the coalition government in Britain after Lord Aberdeen loses a vote of confidence on his conduct of the Crimean War
Holman Hunt's The Scapegoat combines realism and symbolism in an extreme example of Pre-Raphaelite characteristics
David Livingstone, moving down the Zambezi, comes upon the Victoria Falls
John Everett Millais marries Effie Gray, previously the wife of John Ruskin
English artist William Simpson sends sketches from the Crimea which achieve rapid circulation in Britain as tinted lithographs
The Christian Socialism of F.D. Maurice and others is mocked by its opponents as 'muscular Christianity'
The Christmas issue of the Illustrated London News includes chromolithographs, introducing the era of colour journalism
Tennyson publishes a long narrative poem, Maud, a section of which ('Come into the garden, Maud') becomes famous as a song
English author Anthony Trollope publishes The Warden, the first in his series of six Barsetshire novels
G.H. Lewes encourages Marian to try her hand at fiction and her first story, 'The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton' is successfully published
English chemist William Henry Perkin accidentally creates the first synthetic die, aniline purple (now known as mauve)
David Livingstone urges upon a Cambridge audience the high ideal of taking 'commerce and Christianity' into Africa
Russian exile Alexander Herzen, publishes in London a radical newspaper called Kolokol (The Bell)
Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke set off from Bagamoyo in their search for the source of the Nile
In Tom Brown's Schooldays Thomas Hughes depicts the often brutal aspects of an English public school
Acts of exceptional valour in the Crimean War are rewarded with a new medal, the Victoria Cross, made from the metal of captured Russian guns
Palmerston's government collapses and Lord Derby heads another Conservative minority administration
Brunel dies just before the maiden voyage of his gigantic final project, the luxury liner The Great Eastern
