1850-1860

​ ​1850-1860 32, 20 Category: Communication devices Invention/Inventor: Hughes Telegraph, David E. Hughes What was happening in the computer industry and their years-LIST TWO 1. 1851: Western Union was founded. 2. 1860: The first known permanent color photograph is taken of a Tartan Ribbon by the photographer Thomas Sutton. To achieve a color image he took a photo of the ribbon three times, each time with a different color, a method developed by James Clerk Maxwell. [|1850-1860] [] INCLUDE THE YEAR YOUR INVENTION WAS INVENTED 1. 1855 Include AND DESCRIBE three major American historical events and their years 1. 1850: Levi Strauss begins manufacturing heavyweight trousers for gold miners, made of the twilled cotton cloth known as "genes" in France. Strauss had intended to make tents, but finding no market, made a fortune in pants instead. 2. 1853: Kong Chow Temple is established in San Francisco, the first Buddhist temple in the United States. 3. 1853: Willamette University in Oregon becomes the first university west of the Rockies. [|1850-1860]http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/events/1850_1860.htm Include three major global (EVENTS IN THE WORLD) issues AND DESCRIBE and their years 1. 1850 AD Taiping Rebellion -The Taiping rebellion broke out in 1850. The rebellion was led by Hung Hsiu-ch'uan. He believed he was Gods' second son. His believed in Christianity, and his ideology called for communal land ownership and equality between men and women. The revolt against the Manchus lasted for ten years and ended in failure. The revolt cost the lives of 20 million Chinese peasants. 2. 1854 AD Crimean War Begins In October 1853 a war had broken out between Russia and the Ottomans known as the Russo-Turkish War. The war broke out after a Turkish attack on Russian forces that had occupied Walachia and Moldavia. France and Great Britain declared war on Russia in support of the Ottomans. Austria in the meantime successfully pressured Russia to withdraw from the Danubian principalities that it had occupied, and then Austria occupied them. On September 14 allied troops landed in the Crimea. On September 20th the Russians were defeated in the battle of Alma River. The allies then went on to lay siege to the Russian port of Sevastopol. 3. 1856 AD Arrow War- The second Anglo Chinese war, which became known as the Arrow war, began when the Chinese forced a British registered ship to lower the British flag. British and French troops reached Tienstsin in 1858 and thus threatened the Chinese capital Peking. The Chinese agreed to the Treaty of Tienstsin, which opened more treaty ports to foreigners and legalized the importation of opium. [|1850-1860]http://www.historycentral.com/dates/1850ad.html