Explore 534 historical events from 1850–1859.
Sir George Turner was an Australian politician. He served two terms as Premier of Victoria, holding office from 1894 to 1899 and 1900 to 1901 as a liberal. After Federation he was …
George Turner, Australian politician, 18th Premier of Victoria (died 1916)
Felix Adler was a German-American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, influential lecturer on euthanasia, religious leader and social reformer who founded the Et…
Felix Adler, German-American religious leader and educator (died 1933)
Charles Eugene Barrois was a French geologist and palaeontologist.
Charles Barrois, French geologist and palaeontologist (died 1939)
Thomas Kingston Kendall was an Australian cricketer, who played in two Test matches in 1877, including the inaugural Test which was played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in March …
Tom Kendall, Australian cricketer and journalist (died 1924)
Anne-Marie Javouhey, SJC was a French nun who founded the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Cluny. She is venerated in the Roman Catholic Church. She is known as the Liberator of the Slav…
Anne-Marie Javouhey, French nun, founder of the Sisters of St Joseph of Cluny (born 1779)
John Henry Holliday, better known as Doc Holliday, was an American dentist, gambler, and gunfighter who was a close friend and associate of lawman Wyatt Earp. Holliday is best know…
Doc Holliday, American dentist and gambler (died 1887)
Mordecai Manuel Noah was an American sheriff, playwright, diplomat, journalist, and utopian. He was born in a family of mixed Ashkenazi and Portuguese Sephardic ancestry and was th…
Mordecai Manuel Noah, American journalist and diplomat (born 1755)
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre was a French scientist, artist and photographer recognized for his invention of the eponymous daguerreotype process of photography. He became known as …
Louis Daguerre, French photographer and physicist, invented the daguerreotype (born 1787)
Juan Felipe Ibarra was an Argentine soldier and politician. He was one of the caudillos who dominated the Argentine interior during the formation of the national state, and ruled…
Juan Felipe Ibarra, Argentinian general and politician (born 1787)
Matooskie, also known as Anne "Nancy" McKenzie, was a First Nations woman of the Chipewyan (Dënesųłı̨né) nation in Canada. The daughter of Scottish-Canadian fur trader Roderick Mac…
Matooskie, First Nations woman
William Joseph Behr, German publicist and writer.
William Joseph Behr, German publicist and academic (born 1775)
Lorenz Oken was a German naturalist, botanist, biologist, and ornithologist. He became a professor of natural history at the University of Jena and from 1833 at the newly founded U…
Lorenz Oken, German botanist, biologist, and ornithologist (born 1779)
The Congress of the Republic of Colombia is the name given to Colombia's bicameral national legislature.
The Congress of Colombia passed a law abolishing slavery in the country, to take effect at the beginning of the new year
America was a 19th-century racing yacht and first winner of the America's Cup international sailing trophy.
The yacht America won the race for the Cup of One Hundred Sovereigns (trophy pictured), later renamed the America's…
Sojourner Truth was an American abolitionist and activist for African-American civil rights, women's rights, and alcohol temperance. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New …
Sojourner Truth (pictured) delivered her "Ain't I a Woman?" speech at the Woman's Rights Convention in Akron
The Arana–Southern Treaty or Convention of Settlement, formally known as the Convention for the perfect restoration of friendly relations between the Argentine Confederation and He…
The Arana–Southern Treaty is ratified, ending "the existing differences" between Great Britain and Argentina
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, the first African American labor union in the United States, is established in
Louise of the Netherlands, also called Lovisa, was Queen of Sweden and Norway from 8 July 1859 until her death in 1871 as the wife of King Charles XV & IV.
Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries Crown Prince Karl of Sweden–Norway
Autocephaly is the status of a hierarchical Christian church whose head bishop does not report to any higher-ranking bishop. The term is primarily used in Eastern Orthodox and Orie…
Autocephaly officially granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to the Church of Greece
Zachary Taylor was the 12th president of the United States, serving from 1849 until his death in 1850. Before his presidency, Taylor was a career officer in the United States Army,…
U.S. President Zachary Taylor dies after eating raw fruit and iced milk; he is succeeded in office by Vice President…
Vega is the brightest star in the northern constellation of Lyra. It has the Bayer designation α Lyrae, which is Latinised to Alpha Lyrae and abbreviated Alpha Lyr or α Lyr. This s…
Vega becomes the first star (other than the Sun) to be photographed.
Daniel Chester French was an American sculptor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His works include The Minute Man, an 1874 statue in Concord, Massachusetts, and his 1920 m…
Daniel Chester French, American sculptor, designed the Lincoln statue (died 1931)
Luise Adolpha Le Beau was a German composer of classical music. She studied with noted musicians Clara Schumann and Franz Lachner, but her primary instructor was Josef Gabriel Rhei…
Luise Adolpha Le Beau, German composer and educator (died 1927)
Hans Hartwig von Beseler was a German colonel general.
Hans Hartwig von Beseler, German general and politician (died 1921)