Amalie Dietrich
Concurrent Events, 1860-1875
World Events
- 1861 - Abraham Lincoln become President of America
- 1861 - 1865 - American Civil War
- 1864 - International Red Cross formed in Switzerland
- 1869 - Suez Canal opens, joining the Mediterranean and Red Seas
- 1870-1871 - Franco-Prussian War
Australian Events
- 1859 - Queensland becomes a separate colony from New South Wales
- 1864 - Sugar produced commercially in Queensland
- 1867 - Henry Lawson born, at Grenfell, NSW
- 1868 - Australia's first touring cricket team, an Aboriginal team, goes to England
- 1871 - Sydney Stock Exchange opened
- 1874 - Adelaide University was founded. John Forrest crosses the Gibson Desert
- 1877 - The population of Australia passes 2 million
Science and Technology
- 1859 - Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species, on his theory of evolution
- 1865 - Gregor Mendel explains heredity
- 1869 - Russian chemist Dimitri Mendeleyev compiles the periodic table of elements
- 1875 - Alexander Graham Bell makes first telephone call
Arts
- 1862 - Hugo publishes Les Miserables
- 1865 - Lewis Carroll publishes Alice in Wonderland
- 1874 - First exhibition of Impressionist paintings in Paris.
- 1875 - Georges Bizet's opera Carmen first performed
- Other artists, composers and writers working at this time include:
- Cezanne, Courbet, Degas, Manet, Monet, Renoir, Seurat
- Brahms, Gilbert and Sullivan, Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, Wagner
- Dostoyevsky, Tennyson, Tolstoy, Trollope, Twain, Verne
Prepared by Denise Sutherland for
Bright Sparcs: http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/
Published by the Australian
Science Archives Project on
ASAPWeb, 14 August 1997
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