1850

Years:
1847 1848 1849 - 1850 - 1851 1852 1853
Decades:
1820s 1830s 1840s - 1850s - 1860s 1870s 1880s
Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century
1850 in topic:
Arts
Architecture - Art - Literature - Music
Other topics
Canada - Rail transport - Science - South Africa - Sport
Lists of leaders:
Colonial governors - State leaders
From Categories:
births - deaths

1850 was a Common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar).

Events

January 4 - The first American ice-skating club is formed (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).
January 29 - Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress
February 28 - University of Utah opens in Salt Lake City, Utah
March 7 - United States Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech in which he endorses the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible Civil war.
March 18 - American Express is founded by Henry Wells & William Fargo.
April 4 - Los Angeles, California is incorporated as a city.
July 9 - President Zachary Taylor dies while in office and Millard Fillmore becomes the 13th President of the United States (he is inaugurated the next day).
July 9 - The Báb, founder of the Bábí Faith, is executed by firing squad in Tabriz, Persia
August 28 - Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin premieres
September 9 - California is admitted as the 31st U.S. state.
September 9 - New Mexico Territory is organized by order of the U.S. Congress
December 16 - The first four ships arrived at Lyttelton to settle Christchurch, New Zealand.
December - Christian mystic Hong Xiuquan begins the Taiping Rebellion.
The United States Republican Party is founded
Foundation of the University of Sydney, the oldest in Australia
The American System of Watch Manufacturing starts in Roxbury, Mass.U.S.A. Waltham Watch Company
Bingley Hall, the world's first purpose- built exhibition hall, opens in Birmingham, England.
Pinkerton Detective Agency
France begins to transport colonists to Algeria
Modern Acoustic guitar created in Spain
Rifling becomes common in firearms
Entre Ríos Province in Argentina revolts - it is backed by Brazil in alliance with Paraguay and the Uruguayan Colorado Party
Harriet Tubman becomes an official conductor of the Underground Railroad
James Beckwourth discovers Beckwourth Pass.

Births

January - April

January 4 - Frederick York Powell, English historian and scholar (died 1904)
January 6 - Eduard Bernstein, German social democratic theoretician and politician (died 1932)
January 6 - Xaver Scharwenka, Polish-German composer (died 1924)
January 10 - John Wellborn Root, U.S. architect (died 1891)
January 11 - Philipp von Ferrary, Italian stamp collector (died 1917)
January 14 - Pierre Loti, French sailor and writer (died 1923)
January 15 - Mihai Eminescu, Romanian romantic poet (died 1889)
January 15 - Leonard Darwin, son of the British naturalist Charles Darwin (died 1943)
January 15 - Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (died 1891)
January 17 - Aleksandr Taneyev, Russian composer (died 1918)
January 18 - Seth Low, American educator (died 1916)
January 19 - Augustine Birrell, English author and politician (died 1933)
January 24 - Mary Noailles Murfree, American novelist (died 1922)
January 27 - Edward Smith, Captain of the Titanic (died 1912)
January 27 - Samuel Gompers, U.S. labor union leader (died 1924)
January 28 - Edward Merritt Hughes, U.S. Navy officer (died 1903)
February 12 - William Morris Davis, U.S. geographer (died 1934)
February 14 - Kiyoura Keigo, Prime Minister of Japan (died 1942)
February 15 - Albert B. Cummins, U.S. political figure (died 1926)
February 17 - Alf Morgans, Premier of Western Australia (died 1933)
February 23 - César Ritz, Swiss hotelier (died 1918)
February 27 - Henry Huntington, U.S. railroad pioneer and art collector (died 1927)
March 7 - Tomáš Masaryk, President of Czechoslovakia (died 1937)
March 7 - Champ Clark, U.S. politician (died 1921)
March 7 - Éphrem-A. Brisebois, Canadian police officer (died 1890)
March 13 - Hugh John Macdonald, premier of Manitoba (died 1929)
March 26 - Edward Bellamy, U.S. author (died 1898)
March 31 - Charles Doolittle Walcott, U.S. invertebrate paleontologist (died 1927)
April 11 - Isidor Rayner, U.S. senator (died 1912)
April 12 - Nikolai Golitsyn, Prime Minister of Russia (died 1925)
April 13 - Arthur Matthew Weld Downing, British astronomer (died 1917)
April 15 - William Thomas Pipes, Nova Scotia politician (died 1909)
April 15 - Edmund Peck, Canadian missionary (died 1924)
April 16 - Paul von Breitenbach, German railway planner (died 1930)
April 18 - Joseph Labadie, U.S. labor organizer (died 1933)
April 20 - Daniel Chester French, U.S. sculptor (died 1931)
April 26 - Harry Bates, British sculptor (died 1899)
April 26 - James Drake, Australian politician (died 1915)
April 27 - Hans Hartwig von Beseler, German soldier (died 1921)
April 29 - George Murdoch, first mayor of Calgary (died 1910)

May - December

May 1 - Prince Arthur of the United Kingdom (died 1942)
May 7 - Anton Seidl, Hungarian conductor (died 1898)
May 8 - Ross Barnes, U.S. baseball player (died 1915)
May 10 - Thomas Lipton, Scottish merchant and yachtsman (died 1931)
May 12 - Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. statesman (died 1924)
May 12 - Charles McLaren, 1st Baron Aberconway, Scottish Liberal politician and jurist (died 1934)
May 12 - Frederick Holder, premier of South Australia (died 1909)
May 14 - Alva Adams, Governor of Colorado (died 1922)
May 18 - Oliver Heaviside, British engineer (died 1925)
May 21 - Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (died 1914)
May 27 - Thomas Neill Cream, serial killer (died 1892)
May 28 - Frederic William Maitland, English jurist and historian (died 1906)
May 30 - Frederick Dent Grant, U.S.soldier and statesman (died 1912)
June 2 - Jesse Boot, 1st Baron Trent, British businessman (died 1931)
June 3 - Albert M. Todd, American businessman and politician (died 1931)
June 5 - Pat Garrett, American bartender and sheriff (died 1908)
June 6 - Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1918)
June 12 - Roberto Ivens, Portuguese explorer of Africa (died 1898)
June 22 - Ignaz Goldziher, Jewish Hungarian orientalist (died 1921)
June 24 - Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, British Field Marshal and statesman (died 1916)
June 27 - Ivan Vazov, Bulgarian poet (died 1921)
June 27 - Lafcadio Hearn, Greco-Japanese author (died 1904)
June 27 - Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician (died 1916)
July 2 - Robert Ridgway, U.S. ornithologist (died 1929)
July 8 - Charles Rockwell Lanman, U.S. Sanskrit scholar (died 1941)
July 12 - Newell Sanders, U.S. businessman and politician (died 1938)
July 12 - Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist (died 1912)
July 15 - Mother Cabrini, U.S. saint (died 1917)
July 20 - John G. Shedd, U.S. businessman (died 1926)
July 28 - William Whittingham Lyman, U.S. vintner (died 1921)
July 31 - Robert Love Taylor, Tennessee congressman (died 1912)
July 31 - Robert Planquette, French composer of stage musicals (died 1903)
August 5 - Guy de Maupassant, French writer
August 6 - Henri Chantavoine, French writer (died 1918)
August 14 - W. W. Rouse Ball, British mathematician (died 1925)
August 26 - Charles Robert Richet, French physiologist (died 1935)
August 27 - Silas Alexander Ramsay, mayor of Calgary (died 1942)
August 30 - Cal McVey, U.S. baseball player (died 1926)
September 2 - Woldemar Voigt, German physicist (died 1919)
September 2 - Eugene Field, U.S. writer (died 1895)
September 2 - Albert Spalding, U.S. baseball player and businessman (died 1915)
September 2 - Alfred Pringsheim, German mathematician (died 1941)
September 8 - Paul Gerson Unna, German dermatologist (died 1929)
September 9 - Jane Ellen Harrison, British classical scholar and feminist (died 1928)
September 28 - Charles William Dorsett, U.S. prohibitionist (died 1936)
October 1 - David R. Francis, Governor of Missouri (died 1927)
October 18 - Pablo Iglesias, Spanish socialist politician (died 1925)
October 18 - Basil Hall Chamberlain, British Japanologist (died 1935)
October 22 - Charles Kingston, Premier of South Australia (died 1908)
October 30 - John Patton, Jr., U.S. Senator from the state of Michigan (died 1907)
November 5 - Ella Wheeler Wilcox, U.S. author and poet (died 1919)
November 12 - Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player (died 1908)
November 13 - Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish writer (died 1894)
November 13 - Sir John Benn, 1st Baronet, British politician (died 1922)
November 16 - Federico Errázuriz Echaurren, Chilean political figure (died 1901)
November 22 - Georg Dehio, German historian of art (died 1932)
November 28 - Robert Koehler, German born painter and art teacher (died 1917)
November 30 - Cayetano Coll y Toste, Puerto Rican historian and writer (died 1930)
December 8 - Robert E. Pattison, governor of Pennsylvania (died 1904)
December 9 - Emma Abbott, U.S. opera singer (died 1891)
December 11 - Mary Victoria Hamilton, Scottish-German-French great-grandmother of Prince Rainier III of Monaco (died 1922)
December 12 - Martin F. Ansel, Governor of South Carolina (died 1945)
December 21 - Zdeněk Fibich, Czech composer (died 1900)
December 24 - Brandon Thomas, British actor and playwright (died 1914)
December 25 - Florence Griswold, U.S. art curator (died 1937)
December 28 - Francesco Tamagno, Italian operatic tenor (died 1905)

Unknown Date

A - H

Abdul Rahman bin Faisal, Saudi ruler (died 1928)
Abraham Fischer, Prime Minister of the Orange River Colony in South Africa (died 1913)
Alexandre Luigini, French conductor and composer (died 1906)
Alfred Gabriel Nathorst, Swedish Arctic explorer and geologist (died 1921)
Alfred Maudslay, British colonial diplomat (died 1931)
Andria Dadiani, Prince of Samegrelo (died 1910)* Bernhard Baron, Jewish cigarette-manufacturer and philanthropist (died 1929)
Artur Władysław Potocki, Polish nobleman (died 1890)
Bernardo Reyes, Mexican general (died 1913)
Charles Braithwaite, Manitoba politician and agrarian leader (died 1910)
Charles Hazelius Sternberg, U.S. fossil collector and amateur paleontologist (died 1943)
Cuthbert A. Brereton, British civil engineer (died 1910)
Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, U.S. publisher (died 1933)
Daniel Carter Beard, U.S. scouting pioneer (died 1941)
Daniel J. Greene, Newfoundland politician (died 1911)
Ebenezer Howard, British urban planner (died 1928)
Edgar Wilson Nye, U.S. humorist (died 1896)
Edmond Holmes, English writer and poet (died 1936)
Edmond Nocard, French veterinarian and microbiologist (died 1903)
Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, responsible for diabetes mellitus (died 1935)
Edward John Gregory, British painter (died 1909)
Emanuel Schiffers, Russian chess player (died 1904)
Ernest Albert Waterlow, English painter (died 1919)
Ernst Bernheim, German-Jewish historian (died 1922)
Fanny Davenport, U.S. actress (died 1898)
Fernando Fernandez, Puerto Rican distiller (approximate date; died 1940)
Georg von Vollmar, Socialist politician in Bavaria (died 1922)
George Henschel, English musician (died 1934)
George Hitchcock, U.S. artist (died 1913)
Hamo Thornycroft, British sculptor (died 1925)
Hendry Brown, U.S. outlaw (approximate date; died 1884)
Henricus van de Wetering, Archbishop of Utrecht (died 1929)
Hermann Ebbinghaus, German psychologist (died 1909)
Hermann von Ihering, German-Brazilian zoologist (died 1930)

J-Z

J. Walter Fewkes, U.S. anthropologist (died 1930)
James Kenyon, British pioneer of cinematography (died 1925)
James Moore, British cyclist
Johann Büttikofer, Swiss zoologist (died 1929)
John Casper Branner, U.S. geologist (died 1922)
John Collier, British writer and painter (died 1934)
John Perry, Irish engineer (died 1920)
John Wycliffe Lowes Forster, Canadian portrait painter (died 1938)
Johnny Ringo, U.S. cowboy (died 1892)
Julius Wernher, German born British businessman and art collector (died 1912)
Kate Chopin, U.S. novelist (died 1904)
László Lukács, Prime Minister of Hungary (died 1932)
Laura E. Richards, U.S. author (died 1943)
Lawrence Hargrave, Australian engineer (died 1915)
Léon-Adolphe Cardinal Amette, French Catholic cardinal and archbishop of Paris (died 1920)
Lluís Domènech i Montaner, Catalan architect (died 1923)
Lucien Gaulard, French inventor (died 1888)
Maria Beatrix Krasińska, Polish noblewoman (died 1884)
Montague Aldous, Canadian surveyor
Murdo MacKenzie, Scottish-Brazilian rancher
Oscar Straus, U.S. politician (died 1936)
Pavel Axelrod, Russian politician (died 1928)
Per Hasselberg, Swedish sculptor (died 1371)
Philip Bourke Marston, English poet (died 1887)
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, U.S. Roman Catholic nun and social worker (died 1926)
Rose la Touche, lover of John Ruskin
Rudolf Hoernes, Austrian geologist
Solomon Schechter, founder of the United Synagogue of America (died 1915)
Steve Bellan, Cuban baseball player (died 1932)
Thomas Alexander Smith, U.S. politician (died 1932)
Victor Henry, French philologist (died 1907)
Victor Laloux, French Beaux-Arts architect (died 1937)
Vissarion Jughashvili, Joseph Stalin's father (approximate date; died 1890)
William Lawrence, U.S. Episcopalian bishop of Massachusetts (died 1941)
William Pugsley, Canadian politician and lawyer (died 1925)
William Wallace Wotherspoon, U.S. general (died 1921)
Yaa Asantewaa, Queen Mother of Edweso (approximate date; died 1921)
Zaharoff Basil, Anglo-Turkish financier and arms manufacturer (died 1936)

Deaths

January - May

January 20 - Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger, Danish poet and playwright (born 1779)
January 22 - William Joseph Chaminade, French Catholic priest (born 1761)
January 26 - Francis Jeffrey, Scottish judge and literary critic (born 1773)
January 27 - Johann Gottfried Schadow, German sculptor (born 1764)
January 27 - Philipp Roth, composer (born 1779)
February 4 - Daniel Turner, officer in the United States Navy (born 1794)
February 25 - Daoguang Emperor, of the Qing Dynasty of China (born 1782)
February 27 - Samuel Adams, Democratic Governor of the State of Arkansas (born 1805)
March 3 - Oliver Cowdery, U.S. religious leader (born 1806)
March 26 - Samuel Turell Armstrong, U.S. political figure (born 1784)
March 27 - Wilhelm Beer, German banker and astronomer (born 1797)
March 28 - Gerard Brandon, Governor of Mississippi (born 1788)
March 31 - John C. Calhoun, U.S. politician (born 1782)
April 7 - William Lisle Bowles, English poet and critic (born 1762)
April 9 - William Prout, English chemist and physician (born 1785)
April 16 - Marie Tussaud, French wax sculptor (born 1761)
April 23 - William Wordsworth, English poet (born 1770)
April 24 - John Norvell, U.S. newspaperman and senator (born 1789)
May 1 - Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, French zoologist and anatomist (born 1777)
May 10 - Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist and physicist (born 1778)
May 21 - Christoph Friedrich von Ammon, German theological writer and preacher (born 1766)
May 31 - Giuseppe Giusti, Tuscan satirical poet (born 1809)

June - December

June 19 - Margaret Fuller, U.S. journalist (born 1810)
June 30 - Richard Dillingham, U.S. Quaker teacher (born 1823)
July 2 - Robert Peel, British Prime Minister (born 1788)
July 4 - William Kirby, English entomologist (born 1759)
July 7 - Timothy Hackworth, British steam locomotive engineer
July 8 - Prince Adolphus of the United Kingdom, 1st Duke of Cambridge (born 1774)
July 9 - The Báb, Persian founder of the Bábí Faith (born 1819)
July 9 - Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States (born 1784)
July 9 - Jean Pierre Boyer, president of Haiti (born 1776)
July 14 - August Neander, German theologian and church historian (born 1789)
July 25 - Richard Barnes Mason, military governor of California (born 1797)
August 3 - Jacob Jones, officer in the United States Navy (born 1768)
August 13 - Martin Archer Shee, Irish portrait painter and president of the Royal Academy (born 1770)
August 18 - Honoré de Balzac, French author (born 1799)
August 22 - Nikolaus Lenau, Austrian poet (born 1802)
August 26 - King Louis-Philippe of France (born 1773)
August 27 - Thomas Kidd, English classical scholar and schoolmaster (born 1770)
September 12 - Presley O'Bannon, officer in the United States Marine Corps (born 1784)
September 22 - Johann Heinrich von Thünen, German economist (born 1783)
September 23 - José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan revolutionary (born 1764)
October 2 - Sarah Biffen, English painter (born 1784)
October 29 - Marmaduke Williams, Democratic-Republican U.S. Congressman from North Carolina (born 1774)
November 2 - Richard Dobbs Spaight, Jr., Democratic governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina (born 1796)
November 3 - Thomas Ford, governor of Illinois (born 1800)
November 4 - Gustav Schwab, German classical scholar (born 1792)
November 19 - Richard Mentor Johnson, Vice President of the United States (born 1780)
November 22 - Lin Zexu, Chinese politician (born 1785)
November 30 - Germain Henri Hess, Swiss chemist and doctor (born 1802)
December 4 - William Sturgeon, English physicist and inventor (born 1783)
December 10 - François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (born 1787)
December 22 - William Plumer, U.S. lawyer and lay preacher (born 1759)
December 24 - Frédéric Bastiat French author and economist (born 1801)
December 28 - Heinrich Christian Schumacher, German astronomer (born 1780)

Unknown Date

Adoniram Judson, U.S. Baptist missionary (born 1788)
Antoni Potocki, Polish nobleman (born 1780)
Báb, Bahá'í herald (born 1819)
Charles Arbuthnot, British Tory politician (born 1767)
Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn, British Tory politician (born 1775)
Edward Bickersteth, English evangelical divine (born 1786)
Elizabeth Simcoe, wife of John Graves Simcoe (born 1762)
Frances Sargent Osgood, U.S. poet (born 1811)
François-Xavier-Joseph Droz, French writer on ethics and political science (born 1773)
Hone Heke, Maori chief and war leader
Jan Krukowiecki, Polish general (born 1772)
Jane Porter, English novelist (born 1776)
José Manuel de la Peña y Peña, interim President of Mexico (born 1789)
Józef Bem, Polish general (born 1794)
Juan Martín de Pueyrredón y O'Dogan, Argentine general and politician (born 1776)
Michał Gedeon Radziwiłł, Polish noble (born 1778)
Matthew Whitworth-Aylmer, 5th Baron Aylmer, British military officer and colonial administrator (born 1775)
Owen Stanley, British naval officer and explorer of New Guinea (born 1811)
Robert Gilfillan, Scottish poet (born 1798)
Robert Stevenson, Scottish lighthouse engineer (born 1772)
Tan Tock Seng, Singaporean businessman philanthropists
Valentín Canalizo, acting president of Mexico (born 1794)
Saint Vincent Pallotti, Italian missionary (born 1795)
William Lawson, British explorer of New South Wales (born 1774)
William Hamilton Maxwell, Scots-Irish novelist (born 1792)

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