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| 1855 |
| | English artist William Simpson sends sketches from the Crimea which achieve rapid circulation in Britain as tinted lithographs | |
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| 1855 |
| | After a siege of nearly a year the Russians abandon Sebastopol, but the Turkish alliance is too exhausted to pursue the conflict | |
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| 1856 |
| | The treaty of Paris ends the Crimean War, limiting Russia's special powers in relation to Turkey | |
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| c. 1857 |
| | Acts of exceptional valour in the Crimean War are rewarded with a new medal, the Victoria Cross, made from the metal of captured Russian guns | |
| | Crimean War heroes, 1857 National Archives, Kew
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