1836 | Europe • France | The Arc de Triomphe is unveiled at the Place d'Étoile in Paris |
1841 | Central America | Frederick Catherwood (1799–1854) and John Lloyd Stephens (1805–1852) publish Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan. |
1848 | North America • USA
| Start of the Gold Rush with the vast movements of migrants leading to the establishment of California in 1850. |
1851 | Europe • Great Britain | The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations at Hyde Park in London promoted by Prince Albert and Queen Victoria. Louis Jules Duboscq exhibits a Brewster stereograph viewer and it attracts the attention of Queen Victoria. |
1852 | North America • USA | Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) is published. |
1853 | North America • USA | New York Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations |
1854 | Asia • Japan
| Japan is opened to outside influences through the actions of Commodore Matthew Perry and his naval expeditions. |
1854 | North America • USA | Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) publishes Walden, or, Life in the Woods. |