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1850Jul 09Millard Fillmore inaugurated President of the United States.
1851--For the first time, manufacturing in the United Kingdom employed more people than agriculture.1
Jan 13Dante Gabriel Rossetti takes studio at 17 Red Lion Square with Walter Deverell.2
Mar John Ruskin published the first volume of The Stones of Venice.3-101
May 01The Great Exhibition opened by Queen Victoria.
Dec 19Joseph Mallord William Turner died.3-119
1852Sep 14Augustus Pugin died in Ramsgate, England.4
Oct 12Harvey Ellis born in Rochester, New York.
1853Jan William Morris entered Exeter College at Oxford. 5-53
Mar 04Franklin Pierce inaugurated President of the United States.1
Jul John Ruskin published the second volume of The Stones of Venice.3-101
Oct John Ruskin published the third volume of The Stones of Venice.3-101
Nov John Ruskin delivered a series of four lectures - "Lectures on Architecture and Painting", at Edinburgh College on the 1st (Architecture), 4th (Decoration), 15th (Turner) and 18th (Pre-Raphaelitism).8-229
1854Apr 25Effie Ruskin left John Ruskin.3-131
Jul 15John Ruskin marriage to Euphermia Gray was annulled. The marriage was never consummated.3-135
Aug 06Halsey (Ralph) Ricardo born in Bath, England.
Oct 16Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde born in Dublin, Ireland.1
1855Mar 24William Morris came of age and received his inheritance: 13 shares of Devon Great Consols. The dividends provided him with income of over £700 a year.5-65
May John Ruskin arranges and pays for Elizabeth Siddal's medical treatment.3-142
May 15Exposition Universelle opened in Paris, France.6
Jul 19William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones began a tour of the Gothic cathedrals of Northern France.5-83
Jul 23-25William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones visit the Hôtel de Cluny5-86 housing the Unicorn tapestries. These tapestries contain floral designs frequently used in Morris designs.
Jul 26William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones visit Chartres Cathedral. The cathedral's stained glass influenced their latter stained glass designs.5-89
Nov 16The Exposition Universelle closed in Paris, France.6
1856--John Ruskin's Modern Painters vol III & IV published.3-55
Jan 12John Singer Sargent born in Florence, Italy.7
Jan 21William Morris signed his articles with George Edmund Street.5-102 Supervised by Philip Webb he also worked with Ernest Gimson, Ernest Barnsley and Norman Shaw.5-104
Jun 19Elbert Hubbard born in Bloomington, Illinois.7
Jun 24Henry Chapman Mercer born in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
AugWilliam Morris Morris returns to London having adopted Jan van Eyck's motto "Als ich kanne', the motto he was later to incorporate into his first known embroidery in its English version "If I can".5-116
Sep 03Louis Henri Sullivan born in Boston, Massachusetts.1
Nov William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones moved into 17 Red Lion Square in London, England.5-117
Dec 12William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones dine at John Ruskin's home at Denmark Hill.8-464
1857Mar 04James Buchanan inaugurated President of the United States.
Apr 06Arthur Wesley Dow born in Ipswich, Massachusetts.
May 28C.F.A.Voysey born in Hessle, Yorkshire.
Aug Dante Gabriel Rossetti recruits William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones to help paint the new Oxford Union Library. The work was partially funded by John Ruskin.3-149
Sep William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti met Jane Burden (later Mrs. Morris).2
1858--Arthur Burnett Benton born.
MarWilliam Morris' The Defence of Guenevere was published by Bell & Daldy.5-142
Mar 09Gustav Stickley born in Osceola, Wisconsin.7
Oct 30Wilson Eyre Jr. born in Florence, Italy to American parents.
1859--Dirk Van Erp born in Holland.
--A. Page Brown born.
Apr 26William Morris married Jane Burden at St. Michael's in Oxford with Charles Faulkner as best man. Edward Burne-Jones was present. Dante Gabriel Rossetti was not.5-151
Nov 24British naturalist Charles Darwin published "On the Origin of Species," which explained his theory of evolution.7
1 Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2001
2 Rossetti Archive
3 John Ruskin : A Life, John Batchelor, 2000
4 The Catholic Encyclopedia
5 William Morris: A Life for Our Time, Fiona MacCarthy, 1994
6 James McNeill Whistler: Beyond the Myth, Ronald Anderson and Anne Koval, 1994
7 New York Times on the Web
8 The Wider Sea, John Dixon Hunt, 1982