Culture & IdeasThe 1850s

Culture & Ideas in the 1850s

Every event in the Terralore archive tagged culture and ideas — art, language, science and learning, narrowed to the 1850s — 4 of them, drawn from 4 nations, running from 1850 to 1859. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
4
Nations
4
Earliest
1850
Latest
1859
Africa
2
Europe
2

Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.

  1. Europe

    Latvia

    The First National Awakening

    The Young Latvians led a cultural revival that championed the Latvian language and folklore against Baltic German dominance, creating the basis for a modern Latvian nation.

    Era: National Awakening, Independence and the First Republic

    Sources: Latvia: History · Encyclopaedia Britannica, History of Latvia · Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia

  2. Africa

    Zambia

    Livingstone reaches Victoria Falls

    Guided by local people, David Livingstone became the first European recorded to see the falls the inhabitants called Mosi-oa-Tunya, renaming them Victoria Falls and drawing European attention to the region.

    Era: Upheaval, the slave trade and Livingstone

    Sources: David Livingstone · New World Encyclopedia, Livingstone Sees the Victoria Falls · EBSCO Research Starters

  3. Africa

    Malawi

    Livingstone reaches Lake Nyasa

    David Livingstone, on the Zambezi expedition, reached Lake Nyasa and reported it as a corridor of the slave caravans, calling for commerce and Christianity to end the trade.

    Era: Migrations, missionaries and the slave trade

    Sources: David Livingstone (Zambezi expedition) · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Universities' Mission to Central Africa · Wikipedia

  4. Europe

    Switzerland

    Dunant at the Battle of Solferino

    The Geneva businessman Henri Dunant witnessed the carnage of Solferino and organised relief for the wounded, an experience that inspired his 1862 book A Memory of Solferino and his call for protection of war victims.

    Era: The Federal State and the Birth of Humanitarian Geneva

    Sources: Founding and early years of the ICRC (1863-1914) · International Committee of the Red Cross, The Geneva Conventions: a common priority and ongoing relevance · Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (aboutswitzerland.eda.admin.ch)