Amalie Dietrich

Concurrent Events, 1860-1875

World Events

• 1861 - Abraham Lincoln become President of America
• 1861 - 1865 - American Civil War
• 1864 - International Red Cross formed in Switzerland
• 1869 - Suez Canal opens, joining the Mediterranean and Red Seas
• 1870-1871 - Franco-Prussian War

Australian Events

• 1859 - Queensland becomes a separate colony from New South Wales
• 1864 - Sugar produced commercially in Queensland
• 1867 - Henry Lawson born, at Grenfell, NSW
• 1868 - Australia's first touring cricket team, an Aboriginal team, goes to England
• 1871 - Sydney Stock Exchange opened
• 1874 - Adelaide University was founded. John Forrest crosses the Gibson Desert
• 1877 - The population of Australia passes 2 million

Science and Technology

• 1859 - Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species, on his theory of evolution
• 1865 - Gregor Mendel explains heredity
• 1869 - Russian chemist Dimitri Mendeleyev compiles the periodic table of elements
• 1875 - Alexander Graham Bell makes first telephone call

Arts

• 1862 - Hugo publishes Les Miserables
• 1865 - Lewis Carroll publishes Alice in Wonderland
• 1874 - First exhibition of Impressionist paintings in Paris.
• 1875 - Georges Bizet's opera Carmen first performed
• Other artists, composers and writers working at this time include:
  • Cezanne, Courbet, Degas, Manet, Monet, Renoir, Seurat
  • Brahms, Gilbert and Sullivan, Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, Wagner
  • Dostoyevsky, Tennyson, Tolstoy, Trollope, Twain, Verne