Crimean War Dates

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July 1853
Russian Tsar ordered troops to invade Moldavia and Wallachia
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5th October 1853
Sultan declared war on Russia
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5th April 1854
First British troops arrive in Turkey
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28th May 1854
British and French troops move to Varna (28,000 each)
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June 1854
Russians in retreat
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23rd June 1854
British Government order Raglan to invade Crimea
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5th September 1854
Invaded Crimea
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20th September 1854
Battle of Alma
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24th September 1854
Siege of Sevastopol begins
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12th October 1854
Times fund set up
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13th October 1854
Patriotic fund set up
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17th October 1854
First Allied bombardment of Sevastopol
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24th October 1854
Battle of Balaklava - Thin Red Line
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25th October 1854
Battle of Balaklava - Charge of the Light Brigade
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5th November 1854
Battle of Inkerman and Florence Nightingale arrived ar Scutari
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8th November 1854
Raglan informed Commisariat (headed by Fidler) of winter stay
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14th November 1854
06:00 Great Storm
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November 1854
Crimea Fund started by a £200 donation from Robert Peel
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25th November 1854
Times launch journalistic attack on Raglan
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December 1854
Mary Stanley arrived with 33 nurses
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6th March 1855
Sanitary Commission arrives at Scutari
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8th March 1855
Photographer Roger Fenton arrives at Balaklava
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Spring 1855
Mary Seacole arrived and set up British Hotel
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Spring 1855
Land Transport Corps and Work Corps set up
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May 1855
Administrative Reform Association formed
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26th June 1855
Raglan died, replaced by Simpson and later Codrington
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Autumn 1855
Publication of McNeill-Tulloch Report (Conducted Feb 1855)
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29th November 1855
Nightingale Fund launched
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29th February 1856
Armistice in the Crimea
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30th March 1856
Peace of Paris signed at 12:30
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1860
Nightingale Training School for Nurses established at St Thomas' Hospital in London
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1870
Competitive examination established as the normal method of entry into civil servic, under Chancellor of the Exchequer Robert Low
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1870-72
Cardell Army Reforms introduced by Secretary for War Edward Cardwell, under Prime Minister Gladstone
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5th October 1853

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Sultan declared war on Russia

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5th April 1854

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28th May 1854

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June 1854

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