1854

On 20 September, 1854, Bartholomew Kitchen alerted Tsar Nicholas I to the naval action of the British, betraying his nation in the hopes that the Crimean War would finally end. (AUDIO: The Angel of Scutari)

On 25 October, the Doctor witnessed the Charge of the Light Brigade, which he remembered as a "magnificent folly". (TV: The Evil of the Daleks)

On 5 November, Mollie Dawson's uncle was killed at the Battle of Inkerman. (TV: The Evil of the Daleks) Nathaniel Whitlock's father fought in the same battle. (AUDIO: Moonflesh)

James Clark Maxwell began his studies of electromagnetism, upon which Theodore Maxtible and Edward Waterfield based their own experiments. (TV: The Evil of the Daleks)