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| 1850 |
| | Queen Victoria knights her favourite painter of animals, Edwin Landseer | |
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| 1850 |
| | Jenny Lind, the 'Swedish Nightingale', has a great success touring the USA in a show presented by P.T. Barnum | |
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| c. 1850 |
| | English cartoonist John Tenniel begins a 50-year career drawing for the satirical magazine Punch | |
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| 1851 |
| | Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto, based on a play by Victor Hugo, is a huge success at its premiere in Venice | |
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| 1851 |
| | English photographer Frederick Scott Archer publishes the details of his collodion process, a marked improvement on the earlier calotype negative | |
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| 1851 |
| | Richard Wagner writes an anti-semitic tract, Jewishness in Music | |
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| 1853 |
| | Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore is a success at its premiere in Rome | |
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| 1853 |
| | Just six weeks after the success of Il Trovatore, Giuseppe Verdi's opera La Traviata is a disaster at its premiere in Venice | |
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| 1854 |
| | Robert Schumann throws himself into the Rhine, in an attempt to commit suicide, and spends the last two years of his life in an asylum | |
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| 1855 |
| | Roger Fenton travels out from England to the Crimea – the world's first war photographer | |
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