Part I: Sucess Becomes Failure 1850'S- Worse Sectional Tension Than OTL in the US. This Leads to Pro-Secesionis T Majorities
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Part I: Sucess Becomes failure 1850's- Worse sectional tension than OTL in the US. This leads to pro-secesionis t majorities gaining power in more states than OTL but secession is avoided for now. The debate over the compromise of 1850 is more heated with several threats of secession being issued. Relationships between the northern and southern state s in the US continually go downhill. The election of Seward in 1860 doesn't help things at all... -Production of steel revolutionised by invention of the Bessemer process -Benjamin Silliman fractionates petroleum by distillation for the first time -First transatlantic telegraph cable laid -First safety elevator installed by Elisha Otis -Crimean war (1854 - 1856) fought between Imperial Russia and an alliance consis ting of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Second French Empir e, the Kingdom of Sardinia and the Ottoman Empire. The majority of the conflict takes place around Crimea, on the northern coasts of the Black Sea. 1850- Rudolf Clausius publishes his paper on the mechanical theory of heat, whic h first states the basic ideas of the second law of thermodynamics -Rifling becomes common in firearms - Hippolyte Fizeau and E. Gounelle measure the speed of electricity - Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève in Paris, designed by Henri Labrouste is completed.( France) -Nationwide yellow fever epidemic in U.S. (US) - Construction begins on the first transcontinental railroad to be completed, th e Panama Railway.(Colombia) - The Crystal Palace designed by Joseph Paxton. -Modern acoustic guitar created in Spain - Sir John Everett Millais paints Christ in the House of His Parents(art) -Jean-François Millet paints The Sower(art) -"Camptown Races" by Stephen Foster is a hit tune(music) - Genoveva by Robert Schumann becomes a famous opera(music) - Antonina by Wilkie Collins published(novel) - The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne written(novel) -1/1/1850- a raindrop falls on a different side of a leaf than OTL. , it rolls d own the left side of the leaf, startling the butterfly below it, which flaps its wings.... -1/4/1850- The first American ice-skating club is formed(US) -1/29/1850- Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress. U nlike OTL, the compromise of 1850 is taken less well and theres more threats of secession than OTL.(US) -3/7/1850- United States Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" spe ech in which he endorses the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible c ivil war.(US) -3/18-1850- American Express is founded by Henry Wells & William Fargo.(US) -4/4/1850- Los Angeles, California is incorporated as a city.(USA) -4/23/1850- A mass meeting is held in Cape Town to petition Queen Victoria to gr ant the Cape Colony a government(UK) -7/9/1850- The Báb, founder of the Bábí Faith, is executed by firing squad in Tabriz, Persia(persia) -7/9/1850- President Zachary Taylor dies while in office and Millard Fillmore be comes the 13th President of the United States (he is inaugurated the next day).( US) -7/10/1850- Millard Fillmore inaugerated as president(USA) -8/28/1850- Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin premieres -9/9/1850- the U.S. passes Henry Clay's Compromise of 1850, including the Fugit ive Slave Act, which increases the resolve of abolitionists and the extremist sl aveholders. IT passes with more debate than OTL.(USA) -12/1850- Christian mystic Hong Xiuquan begins the Taiping Rebellion.(China) -12/16/1850- The first four ships arrive at Lyttelton to settle Christchurch, Ne w Zealand(UK). 1851- Florida State University is founded. - Gold discovered in Australia. - St. Paul's College, Hong Kong is founded. - Sugar is first produced from cane in Natal(UK) - The first baked potato men appear on London streets, selling hot baked potatoe s as food and hand warmers from fall through spring; the practice continues unti l 1900.(UK) - Herman Melville writes Moby Dick(Novel) -Charles Finney publishes Systematic Theology, a seminal work for American evang elicals.(novel) - John Gorrie patents the first ice machine (refrigerator) in the U.S.; the fir st demonstration of his achine is made in Florida to ice champagne for a cotton buyer; the machine isn't produced commercially due to opposition from ice seller s. - Joseph Liouville proves that transcendental numbers exist - "Ring, Ring, de Banjo" By Stephen Foster is a popular tune(music) -1/9/1851- Salt Lake City officially incorporated(US) -1/23/1851- The flip of a coin determines whether a new city in Oregon is named after Boston, Massachusetts, or Portland, Maine, with Boston winning.(US) -2/6/1851- Schumann's Symphony No. 3 premers in Düsseldorf, the composer conducti ng. -2/25/1851- the first passenger train on the Milwaukee Road operates over what is then known as the Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad between Milwaukee, Wisco nsin, and Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. -3/1/1851- Victor Hugo gives speech at the French national assembly and uses the phrase United States of Europe several times(France) -4/5/1851- Utah Territorial legislature formed(US) -5/1-10/18/1851- The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations in the Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, London is opened by Queen Victoria. -5/15/1851- Rama IV is crowed King of Siam(Siam). -6/1851- - The first "refrigerated boxcar" enters service on the Northern Railro ad of New York. -7/1851- - The immortal game, a famous chess game, is played. -7/1/1851- Colony of Victoria separates from New South Wales. -7/29/1851- Annibale de Gasparis, in Naples, Italy discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia . -9/18/851- The New York Times is founded. -10-1851- Reuters news service founded. -10/18/1851- The Great Exhibition in London is closed.(UK) -11/13/1851- The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, the first settlers of what wil l become Seattle, Washington. -12/2/1851- Louis Napoleon, president of France, dissolves French National Assem bly and declares a new constitution to extend his term. (France) -12/26-27/1851- A Royal Navy warship bombards Lagos island; Oba Kosoko is wounde d and flees to Epe(UK) -12/29/1851- The first YMCA opens, in Boston, Massachusetts.(US) Part 3: From small acorns.... 1852-French engineer Henri Giffard launches the first successful man-carrying di rigible; it is 144 feet long, uses a steam engine and propeller and flies 20 mil es at 6 mph. - French replace semaphores with Morse telegraphs -The Second Anglo-Burmese War sees Lower Burma conquered by the British and made a province of British India(Burma/UK) - Hugh Burgess in England perfects the use of wood pulp for paper. - Justin Perkins, an American Presbyterian missionary, produces the first transl ation of the Bible in Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, which is published with the parallel text of the Syriac Peshitta by the American Bible Society - The Whig Party disintegrates, leaving the Democratic Party virtually unopposed in the U.S.(US) -The House of Commons in the Palace of Westminster designed by Charles Barry and August Pugin is completed.(UK) - "Massa's in de Cold Cold Ground" by Stephen Foster is a popular tune(music) - Pierre Larousse founds his publishing house in Paris, France(france) - Herman Melville writes Pierre.(novels) -The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte published by Karl Marx(novels) - Wilkie Collins writes Basil: A Story of Modern Life.(novel) - Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe becomes a popular novel that inflam es north/south tensions. This novel gets women into the anti-slavery movement(No vels) -1/14/1852- President Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte proclaims a new constitution for the French Second Republic. -1/17/1852- United Kingdom recognizes independence of the Transvaal(UK/Transvaal ) -1/17/1852- Transvaal is established with the signing of the Sand River Conventi on(Transvaal) -2/16/1852- Studebaker Brothers wagon company, precursor of the automobile manuf acturer, is established -2/19/1852- The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity is founded at Jefferson College in Cano nsburg, Pennsylvania(US) -2/26/1852- The British troopship, HMS Birkenhead is wreck near Gansbaai, Wester n Cape(UK) -3/1/1852- Archibald William Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton appointed Lord L ieutenant of Ireland(UK) -3/16/1852- Voortrekker leaders, Andries Pretorius and Hendrik Potgieter reconci l(Transvaal) -4/1/1852- Start of Second Burmese War(UK/Burma) -8/28/1852-At a special conference in Salt Lake City polygamy is officially proc laimed by the Mormon Church.(US) -9/24/1852- French engineer Henri Giffard makes the first airship trip from Pari s to Trappes -10/6/1852- In Mexico, French settlers under Count Gaston Raousset-Boulbon occu py the city of Hermosillo and declare the Republic of Sonora.(Sonora) -11/1852- Democrat Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire defeats Whig Winfield Scott of Virginia in the U.S. presidential election. The election is more acrimonius than OTL's election.(US) -11/4/1852- Count Cavour becomes Piedmont prime minister(Piedmont) -11/11/1852- New Palace of Westminster opened in Britain -11/21-11/22/1852- New French Empire confirmed by plebiscite: 7,824,000 for, 253 ,000 against(france) -12/2/1852- Napoleon III becomes Emperor of France. end of the second republic(f rance). 1853- James Beckwourth discovers Beckwourth Pass. - Independent Santa Cruz Maya of Eastern Yucatan recognized as an independent na tion by British Empire(Chan Santa Cruz/UK) - The British learn about papirosi (cigarettes) from the Turks. - Indianapolis' Union Station, the first "union station" in the world, is opened by the Terre Haute and Richmond Railroad, Madison and Indianapolis Railroad, an d Bellefontaine Railroad.