Crimean War Begins
October 16, 1853
A squabble between Catholic and Orthodox monks over the keys to the Church of the Nativity escalated, via the ambitions of Napoleon III and the paranoia of Tsar Nicholas I, into a war between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, the Ottomans, and eventually Sardinia. It would be the bloodiest European war between 1815 and 1914.
In context
Also in 1853 (3 other events on record)
- Perry at Edo Bay · East Asia · Politics
- Haussmann Remakes Paris · Europe · Technology
- Verdi's Il Trovatore and La Traviata · Europe · Culture
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Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.
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