Explore 534 historical events from 1850–1859.
Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, known as Godefroy Cavaignac, was a French politician.
Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (died 1905)
Carl Olof Larsson was a Swedish painter representative of the Arts and Crafts movement. His many paintings include oils, watercolors, and frescoes. He is principally known for his …
Carl Larsson, Swedish painter and author (died 1919)
Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie, commonly known as simply Sir Flinders Petrie, was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and the preser…
Flinders Petrie, English archaeologist and academic (died 1942)
William Turner Dannat was an American artist known especially for paintings of Spanish subject matter.
William Turner Dannat, American painter (died 1929)
Alexius Meinong von Handschuchsheim was an Austrian philosopher, a realist known for his unique ontology and theory of objects. He also made contributions to philosophy of mind and…
Alexius Meinong, Ukrainian-Austrian philosopher and academic (died 1920)
Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko was a Russian writer, journalist and humanitarian of Ukrainian origin. His best-known work includes the short novel The Blind Musician (1886), as …
Vladimir Korolenko, Ukrainian journalist, author, and activist (died 1921)
Elizabeth Ann or Anne Plankinton was an American philanthropist in the early 20th century, the daughter of Milwaukee businessman John Plankinton. She was also known as "Miss Liz…
Elizabeth Plankinton, American philanthropist (died 1923)
John Henry Twachtman was an American painter best known for his impressionist landscapes, though his painting style varied widely through his career. Art historians consider Twacht…
John Henry Twachtman, American painter, etcher, and academic (died 1902)
Cecil John Rhodes was a British mining magnate and politician in southern Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896. He and his British South Africa …
Cecil Rhodes, English-South African businessman and politician, 6th Prime Minister of the Cape Colony (died 1902)
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz was a Dutch theoretical physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for their discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman…
Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1928)
Vladimir Grigoryevich Shukhov was a Russian and Soviet engineer-polymath, scientist and architect renowned for his pioneering works on new methods of analysis for structural engine…
Vladimir Shukhov, Russian architect and engineer, designed the Adziogol Lighthouse (died 1939)
Johann Ludwig Tieck was a German poet, fiction writer, translator, and critic. He was one of the founding fathers of the Romantic movement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries…
Ludwig Tieck, German author and poet (born 1773)
Jan Philipp Roothaan, SJ was a Dutch Jesuit, elected twenty-first Superior-General of the Society of Jesus. Roothaan was a decisive figure in the reestablishment of the order after…
Jan Roothaan, Dutch priest, 21st Superior General of the Society of Jesus (born 1785)
Lionel Adalbert Bagration Felix Kieseritzky was a Baltic German chess master and theoretician, known for his contributions to chess theory, as well for a game he lost against Adolf…
Lionel Kieseritzky, Estonian-French chess player (born 1806)
General Henry Otway Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre, CB was a peer and British Army officer.
Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre, English general (born 1777)
Joseph-Norbert Provencher was a Canadian clergyman and missionary and one of the founders of the modern province of Manitoba. He was the first Bishop of Saint Boniface and was an i…
Norbert Provencher, Canadian missionary and bishop (born 1787)
Adrien-Henri de Jussieu was a French botanist.
Adrien-Henri de Jussieu, French botanist and academic (born 1797)
Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus Pretorius was a leader of the Boers who was instrumental in the creation of the South African Republic, as well as the earlier but short-lived Natalia Rep…
Andries Pretorius, South African general (born 1798)
Charles Tristan, Marquis de Montholon was a French general during the Napoleonic Wars. He chose to go into exile on Saint Helena with the ex-emperor after Napoleon's second abdicat…
Charles Tristan, marquis de Montholon, French general (born 1783)
Alexander Calder was the first mayor of Beaumont, Texas, on August 8, 1840.
Alexander Calder, American lawyer and politician (born 1806)
Johanna Maria "Jenny" Lind , was a Swedish opera singer, often called the "Swedish Nightingale". One of the most highly regarded singers of the 19th century, she performed in sopra…
Jenny Lind leaves New York after her two-year American tour
The San Francisco Mint is a branch of the United States Mint. Opened in 1854 to serve the gold mines of the California gold rush, in twenty years its operations exceeded the capaci…
Congress establishes the United States' 2nd mint in San Francisco.
Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He was "the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights…
Frederick Douglass delivers his "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" speech in Rochester, New York.
Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He was "the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights…
Abolitionist Frederick Douglass delivers his "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" speech at a meeting organized…