February 17 in Victorian History
What the Victorians were up to on this date, year by remarkable year.
1863
Five men found what becomes the Red Cross
In Geneva, five men — Henry Dunant, Gustave Moynier, General Henri Dufour, and doctors Louis Appia and Théodore Maunoir — hold the first meeting of a committee to pursue Dunant's proposal for a neutral body to care for wounded soldiers. The meeting is now counted as the founding of the International Committee of the Red Cross. A year later their work produces the First Geneva Convention.