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.
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