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| 1850 |
| | | Fyodor Dostoevsky begins four years of hard labour in Siberia for revolutionary activities | |
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| 1850 |
| | | A rebellion against the Qing dynasty, led by Christian convert Hong Xiuquan, breaks out in southern China | |
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| 1853 |
| | | The Taiping rebels capture the Chinese city of Nanjing and make it their capital | |
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| 1854 |
| | | Australian gold diggers, angered by the requirement to purchase a licence, make a defiant stand at the Eureka stockade | |
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| 1856 |
| | | Abolitionist John Brown presides over the lynching of five pro-slavery men at Pottawatomie in Kansas | |
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| 1857 |
| | | Animal fat on a new issue of cartridges sparks off the Indian Mutiny, also know as the First War of Indian Independence | |
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| 1857 |
| | | After being besieged for five months in Lucknow, the remnants of the British garrison finally escape | |
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| 1858 |
| | | John O'Mahony, an Irish emigrant to the USA, founds the Fenian Brotherhood as a secret organization supporting the Irish republican cause | |
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| 1858 |
| | | Lucknow is retaken by the British, nearly a year after it fell to the rebels | |
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| 1858 |
| | | The end of the Indian Mutiny is followed by brutal British retaliation | |
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