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| 1854 |
| | | An inconclusive battle at Balaklava includes the Charge of the Light Brigade, with British cavalry recklessly led towards Russian guns | |
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| 1854 |
| | | Within six weeks of the Charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimea, Tennyson publishes a poem finding heroism in the disaster | |
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| 1855 |
| | | Jamaican-born nurse Mary Seacole sets up her own 'British Hotel' in the Crimea to provide food and nursing for soldiers in need | |
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| 1855 |
| | | Roger Fenton travels out from England to the Crimea – the world's first war photographer | |
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| 1855 |
| | | Lord Palmerston heads the coalition government in Britain after Lord Aberdeen loses a vote of confidence on his conduct of the Crimean War | |
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| 1855 |
| | | Holman Hunt's The Scapegoat combines realism and symbolism in an extreme example of Pre-Raphaelite characteristics | |
|  | Holman Hunt, The Scapegoat (detail)
Lady Lever Art Gallery
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| 1855 |
| | | David Livingstone, moving down the Zambezi, comes upon the Victoria Falls | |
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| 1855 |
| | | John Everett Millais marries Effie Gray, previously the wife of John Ruskin | |
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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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| c. 1855 |
| | | The Christian Socialism of F.D. Maurice and others is mocked by its opponents as 'muscular Christianity' | |
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