1850s
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Art and culture
- rise of fine art photography
- the Great Exhibition (UK world fair)
- invention of pulp paper
- first purpose-built music halls
- start of "industrial design"
- start of modernism
- Baron Haussmann begins redesign of Paris, creating boulevards
- James Whistler, American artist, is one of many artists who flow into Paris after having read Murger's accounts
- New Orleans legalizes licensed prostitutes
- Olmsted's design for New York's Central Park
Literature
- Les Fleurs du mal (1857)
- Madame Bovary (1857)
- Artificial Paradises (1850s)
- The Origin of Species (1859)
- The Stones of Venice by Ruskin
Visual culture
- The Crystal Palace (1851) - Joseph Paxton
- Poem of the Soul, Nightmare (1854) - Louis Janmot (1814-1892)
- Great Day of His Wrath (1851-53) - John Martin
- Fading Away (1858) - Henry Peach Robinson
Births
- Guy de Maupassant (1850 - 1893)
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
- Jose Posada (1851 - 1913)
- Antoni Gaudí (1852 - 1926)
- Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890)
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Arthur Rimbaud (1854 - 1891)
- H. Rider Haggard (1856 - 1925)
- Max Klinger (1857 - 1920)
- Émile Durkheim (1858 - 1917)
- Henri Bergson (1859 - 1941)
- Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939)
Deaths
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