China's Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864) overlapped with the American Civil War and cost an estimated 20–30 million lives — many times more.
The events
- Taiping Rebellion1850–1864 · Nanjing. Hong Xiuquan, who claimed to be the brother of Christ, rose against the Qing and founded the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom with its capital at Nanjing. The civil war killed an estimated 20 to 30 million people, one of the deadliest conflicts of the 19th century.
- American Civil War1861–1865 · Fort Sumter. The war between the Union and the seceded slaveholding states of the Confederacy began with the bombardment of Fort Sumter in April 1861. The Union victory preserved the United States, and the 13th Amendment of 1865 abolished slavery nationwide.
More amazing facts
- 1835 · 1859 Darwin spent five weeks on the Galápagos in 1835, but did not publish On the Origin of Species until 24 years later.
- 1844 In May 1844 Morse sent the first telegram from Washington to Baltimore; ten days later the last pair of great auks was killed in Iceland.
- 1859 · 1869 Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) and Mendeleev's periodic law (1869) are just ten years apart.
- 1861 Alexander II signed the manifesto freeing the serfs on 3 March 1861 (19 February Old Style); the very next day Lincoln became US president.
- 1861 1861: Russia abolished serfdom, and a united Kingdom of Italy was proclaimed in Turin.
- 1861 · 1888 Russia abolished serfdom in 1861 and the USA slavery in 1865; Brazil was the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery, only in 1888.