1850s
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"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce." --"The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon" (1852) by Karl Marx 1850 - 1849 - 1848 - 1847 - 1846 - 1845 - 1844 - 1843 - 1842 - 1841 |
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Art and culture
- Bohemianism
- 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
- The Stones of Venice (1851-53) by John Ruskin
- Chemistry of Common Life (1855) by James Finlay Weir Johnston
- Les Fleurs du mal (1857) Charles Baudelaire
- Madame Bovary (1857) Gustave Flaubert
- The Origin of Species (1859) by Charles Darwin
Visual culture
- The Crystal Palace (1851) - Joseph Paxton
- Poem of the Soul, Nightmare (1854) - Louis Janmot
- 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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