1850

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Decades: 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s - 1850s - 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s

Years: 1845 1846 1847 1848 1849 - 1850 - 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855

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Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Heads of State

Events

End of the Irish potato famine
The United States Republican Party is founded
Foundation of the University of Sydney, the oldest in Australia
January 4 - The first American ice-skating club is formed (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).
January 29 - Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the United States 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).
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.

Births

January 21 - Paul Vinzenz Busch, ringmaster (+ 1927)
January 27 - Samuel Gompers, labor union leader (+ 1924)
May 1 - Prince Arthur of the United Kingdom, third son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, later Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
May 8 - Ross Barnes, baseball player
May 12 - Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. statesman (+ 1924)
September 2 - Albert Spalding, baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer
November 13 - Robert Louis Stevenson (+ 1894)

Deaths

July 8 - Prince Adolphus of the United Kingdom, 1st Duke of Cambridge
July 9 - Zachary Taylor, President of the United States
August 18 - HonorÃÂÃÂ© de Balzac, author
November 19 - Richard Mentor Johnson, Vice President of the United States

Heads of State

China -
1. Daoguang Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (September 2, 1820 to February 25, 1850)
2. Xianfeng Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (1850-1861)
Denmark - Frederick VII, King of Denmark (1848-1863)
France - Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, President of France (1848-1852)
Norway - Oscar I, King of Sweden and Norway (1844-1859)
Ottoman Empire - Abd-ul-Mejid, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (July 2, 1839 to June 25, 1861)
Prussia - Frederick William IV, King of Prussia (1840-1861)
Russia - Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia (December 26, 1825 to March 2, 1855)
Spain - Isabella II, Queen of Spain (September 29, 1833 to September, 1868)
United States -
1. Zachary Taylor, President of the United States (1849-1850)
2. Millard Fillmore, President of the United States (1850-1853)