Nicholas I Dies
March 2, 1855
Tsar Nicholas I, the autocrat who had put down the Decembrists and kept Europe frozen for thirty years, died in St. Petersburg of pneumonia, possibly self-neglected in despair at Russia's failures in the Crimea. His son Alexander II, unlike his father, understood that something had to change, and inherited both the war and the reform.
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Also in 1855 (3 other events on record)
- Livingstone Sees Mosi-oa-Tunya · Africa · Exploration
- Fall of Sevastopol · Europe · War
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Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.