Explore 259 historical events from 1850–1859.
Sir Frederick William Holder was an Australian politician who served as the first speaker of the Australian House of Representatives from 1901 to 1909. A member of the Free Trade P…
Frederick Holder, Australian politician, 19th Premier of South Australia (died 1909)
Giuseppe Mercalli was an Italian volcanologist and Catholic priest. He is known best for the Mercalli intensity scale for measuring earthquake intensity.
Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian priest and volcanologist (died 1914)
Patrick Floyd Jarvis Garrett was an American Old West lawman, bartender, and customs agent known for killing Billy the Kid. He was the sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico, as wel…
Pat Garrett, American sheriff (died 1908)
Charles Roscoe Barnes was one of the stars of baseball's National Association (1871–1875) and the early National League (1876–1881), playing second base and shortstop. He played fo…
Ross Barnes, American baseball player and manager (died 1915)
Henry Cabot Lodge was an American politician, historian, lawyer, and statesman from Massachusetts. A member of the Republican Party, he served in the United States Senate from 1893…
Henry Cabot Lodge, American historian and politician (died 1924)
Oliver Heaviside was a British mathematician and electrical engineer who invented a new technique for solving differential equations, independently developed vector calculus, and r…
Oliver Heaviside, English engineer, mathematician, and physicist (died 1925)
Karl Ferdinand Braun was a German applied physicist who shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Guglielmo Marconi for their contributions to the development of radio. With his …
Karl Ferdinand Braun, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate in 1909 for physics (died 1918)
Max Emil Julius Delbrück was a German agricultural chemist.
Max Delbrück, German chemist and academic (died 1919)
William Arnon Henry was an American academic and agriculturist from Ohio. Henry studied at the National Normal University and Ohio Wesleyan University before becoming a principal o…
William Arnon Henry American academic and agriculturist (died 1932)
Richard Franz Joseph Heuberger was an Austrian composer of operas and operettas, a music critic, and teacher.
Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer and critic (died 1914)
Rev. David Jayne Hill was an American academic, diplomat and author. He was president of Bucknell University and the University of Rochester.
David Jayne Hill, American historian and politician, 24th United States Assistant Secretary of State (died 1932)
Anna Maria "Marie" Tussaud, commonly known as Madame Tussaud, was a French artist known for her wax sculptures and Madame Tussauds, the wax museum she founded in London.
Marie Tussaud, French-English sculptor, founded the Madame Tussauds Wax Museum (born 1761)
Friedrich Robert Faehlmann (Fählmann) was an Estonian writer, medical doctor and philologist. He was a co-founder of the Learned Estonian Society and its chairman (1843-1850).
Friedrich Robert Faehlmann, Estonian philologist and physician (born 1798)
William Wordsworth was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ball…
William Wordsworth, English poet and author (born 1770)
John Joel Glanton was an early settler of Arkansas Territory. He was also a Texas Ranger and a soldier in the Mexican–American War and the leader of a notorious gang of scalp-hunte…
John Joel Glanton, American outlaw, soldier, mercenary, and Texas ranger (born ~1819)
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac was a French chemist and physicist. He is known mostly for his discovery that water is made of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen by volume, for two law…
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist and physicist (born 1778)
Garlieb Helwig Merkel was a Baltic German writer and activist and an early Estophile and Lettophile.
Garlieb Merkel, Baltic German author and activist (born 1769)
William Lawson, MLC was a British soldier, explorer, land owner, grazier and politician. In 1800, he migrated to Sydney, New South Wales, and from 1819, he served as the commandant…
William Lawson, English-Australian explorer and politician (born 1774)
The American League of Colored Laborers (ALCL) was a short-lived labor union established in New York City in 1850. It is notable for being the first union created for African Ameri…
The American League of Colored Laborers, one of the first labor unions for African Americans, was established in New Yor