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 1853 - 1857 (4 years)
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| 1 | 1853 | - 1853: UK - Potato crisps invented by a cook named George Crum.
- 1853: Crimea - Florence Nightingale first recommended the regimen of cleanliness which dramatically reduced the death rate in hospitals
- 1853: UK - Vaccination against smallpox is made compulsory
- 1853: UK - Queen Victoria uses chloroform during birth of Prince Leopold
- 1853: UK - William Gladstone presents his first budget
- 1853: UK - Franklin Pierce president of the USA 1853-1857.
- 1853: The Grand Trunk Railway is Chartered. It was a railway system which operated in Quebec and Ontario, as well as Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont. The railway was operated from headquarters in Montreal, Quebec. The Grand Trunk and its subsidiaries, along with the Canadian Government Railways, was a primary precursor of today's Canadian National Railways.
The GTR had three important subsidiaries during its lifetime:
Central Vermont Railway which operated in Quebec, Vermont, Massachusetts and Connecticut.
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway which operated in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia.
Grand Trunk Western Railroad which operated in Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois.
- 1853: CA - Mary Ann Shadd becomes the first woman in North America to become editor of a newspaper. Working out of Chatham, Ontario, she publishes, edits and writes in the Provincial Freeman, a newspaper serving the Black community in Ontario.
- 23 Feb 1853: CA - A description of the proposed bridge across the St. Lawrence is published
- 6 Jun 1853: CA - Gavazzi Riot in Quebec are quelled by military.
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| 2 | 1854 | - 1854: UK - The Northcote-Trevelyan civil service report is published
- 1854: UK - John Tyndall demonstrates the principles of fiber optics.
- 1854: UK - Crimean War begins, as Britain and France attempt to defend European interests in the Middle East against Russia
- 1854: CA - Establishment of the African Baptist Association of Nova Scotia
- 1854: NL - Lijfstraffen geschrapt uit het strafrecht. De doodstraf wordt beperkt tot ophanging boven een luik.
- 1854: NL - Het KNMI wordt bij koninklijk besluit van Koning Willem III opgericht.
- 27 Jan 1854: CA - The Great Western Railway opens, linking Toronto, Hamilton and Windsor.
- 27 Oct 1854: CA - A Great Western Railway passenger train collides with the tail end of gravel train at Baptiste Creek, Canada West. At least 52 people are killed.
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| 3 | 1855 | - 1855: UK - John Snow, investigating London's piped water supply, showed graphically that cholera could be transmitted by water from a particular pump.
- 1855: UK - Palmerston's first government comes to power
- 1 Jan 1855: CA - own is renamed Ottawa.
- 8 Mar 1855: CA/US - A bridge over the Niagara River near Niagara Falls is completed
- 17 Apr 1855: CA - Charlottetown incorporated as a city
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| 5 | 1857 | - 1857: Atlantic - Cyrus Field made his first attempt at laying a trans-Atlantic telegraph cable. In 1866, his fourth attempt was successful.
- 1857: China - The Second Opium War opens China to European trade.
- 1857: India - The Indian Mutiny erupts against British Rule on the sub-continent
- 1857: USA - James Buchanan president of the USA 1857-1861.
- 1857: USA - George Pullman invents the Pullman Sleeping Car for train travel.
- 1857: CA - Grand Trunk Railway (Windsor-Montreal) completed, but $7 million in debt.
- 1857: CA/UK - Queen Victoria names Ottawa as capital of the Province of Canada.
- 1857: CA - The Palliser Expedition begins its exploration of Western Canada.
- 1857: CA - Coal mining begins at Coal Harbor on the Kenai Peninsula.
- 12 Mar 1857: CA - The bridge over Desjardins Canal, near Hamilton, Canada West, collapses under a Great Western Railway passenger train. About 60 people die.
- 31 Dec 1857: CA - Ottawa is chosen as the new capital of the Canadas
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