The US Army Camel Corps
The US Army imports camels to tame the Wild West
On 14 May 1856, 34 camels bought by the US Army in the Middle East were unloaded in Texas; one had died on the voyage, but two were born. They coped superbly with the Southwest's deserts, yet the Army never adopted them, and after the Civil War they were auctioned off.
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Europe
- 1845–1852 Great Famine in Ireland — 11 years earlier
- 1848–1849 Revolutions of 1848 — 8 years earlier
- 1848 The Communist Manifesto — 8 years earlier
- 1859 Darwin's On the Origin of Species — 3 years later
- 1861 Unification of Italy — 5 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1853–1856 Crimean War — 3 years earlier
- 1861 Emancipation of the serfs in Russia — 5 years later
- 1867 Alaska Purchase — 11 years later
- 1869 Tolstoy's War and Peace — 13 years later
- 1877 Premiere of Swan Lake — 21 years later
Middle East
- 1839 The Edict of Gülhane opens the Tanzimat — 17 years earlier
- 1839–1842 First Anglo-Afghan War — 17 years earlier
- 1876–1878 The first Ottoman constitution — 20 years later
Africa
- c. 1835–1846 The Great Trek — 21 years earlier
- 1847 Liberia declares independence — 9 years earlier
- 1869 Opening of the Suez Canal — 13 years later
- 1879 Battle of Isandlwana — 23 years later
Asia
- 1839–1842 First Opium War — 17 years earlier
- 1850–1864 Taiping Rebellion — 6 years earlier
- 1853–1854 Commodore Perry's Black Ships — 3 years earlier
- 1868 Meiji Restoration — 12 years later
- 1876–1878 Great Famine in India — 20 years later
Oceania
- 1851 The Australian gold rushes — 5 years earlier
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- Charles Darwin (aged 47)
- Abraham Lincoln (aged 47)
- Karl Marx (aged 38)
- Queen Victoria (aged 37)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (aged 35)
- Leo Tolstoy (aged 28)
- Dmitri Mendeleev (aged 22)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (aged 16)
- Thomas Edison (aged 9)
- Vincent van Gogh (aged 3)