| 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. |
| 1859 | Europe • Great Britain
| Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species |
| 1862 | Europe • Great Britain
| London International Exhibition in South Kensington, London |
| 1864 | Europe | The first typewriter (inventor: Peter Mitterhofer) |
| 1866 | Europe • France | Color lithography popularized by Jules Chéret (1836–1932) in France. This made it possible to print large colored advertising posters for the first time. |
| 1867 | Africa | Adam Render and Carl Mauch publish research on the ruins of Great Zimbabwe. |
| 1867 | Europe • France | The Paris International Exhibition is held. |
| 1867 | Africa • Southern Africa | Diamonds discovered in Cape Colony. |
| 1869 | Europe | DNA is extracted by the Swiss physician Frederick Miescher - he calls it nuclein |
| 1870 | North America • USA | Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded in New York. |
| 1870 | North America • USA | Museum of Fine Arts is founded in Boston. |
| 1870 | Asia • India | The Archaeological Survey of India is founded [Read about] |
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