France conquers Cochinchina
French Indochina begins with the siege of Da Nang
In 1858 French and Spanish forces, claiming to protect missionaries, landed at Da Nang, and in 1859 they took Saigon. By the Treaty of Saigon of 1862 Emperor Tự Đức ceded three southern provinces to France — the first colony of future French Indochina.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1845–1852 Great Famine in Ireland — 13 years earlier
- 1848–1849 Revolutions of 1848 — 10 years earlier
- 1859 Darwin's On the Origin of Species — 1 year later
- 1861 Unification of Italy — 3 years later
- 1866 Austro-Prussian War — 8 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1853–1856 Crimean War — 5 years earlier
- 1858 Treaty of Aigun — same year
- 1861 Emancipation of the serfs in Russia — 3 years later
- 1864 End of the Caucasian War and the Circassian expulsion — 6 years later
- 1867 Alaska Purchase — 9 years later
Middle East
- 1839 The Edict of Gülhane opens the Tanzimat — 19 years earlier
- 1839–1842 First Anglo-Afghan War — 19 years earlier
- 1876–1878 The first Ottoman constitution — 18 years later
Africa
- c. 1835–1846 The Great Trek — 23 years earlier
- 1847 Liberia declares independence — 11 years earlier
- 1869 Opening of the Suez Canal — 11 years later
- 1879 Battle of Isandlwana — 21 years later
- 1882 Britain occupies Egypt — 24 years later
Americas
- 1861–1865 American Civil War — 3 years later
- 1863 Emancipation Proclamation — 5 years later
- 1864–1870 Paraguayan War — 6 years later
- 1876 Invention of the telephone — 18 years later
- 1879 Edison's incandescent lamp — 21 years later
Oceania
- 1851 The Australian gold rushes — 7 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Charles Darwin (aged 49)
- Abraham Lincoln (aged 49)
- Karl Marx (aged 40)
- Queen Victoria (aged 39)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (aged 37)
- Leo Tolstoy (aged 30)
- Dmitri Mendeleev (aged 24)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (aged 18)
- Thomas Edison (aged 11)
- Vincent van Gogh (aged 5)