Explore 534 historical events from 1850–1859.
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, was the seventh child and third son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. He served a…
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (died 1942)
The Báb was an Iranian religious leader who founded Bábism, and is also one of the central figures of the Baháʼí Faith. The Báb gradually and progressively revealed his claim in hi…
Persian prophet Báb is executed in Tabriz, Persia.
Millard Fillmore was the 13th president of the United States, serving from 1850 to 1853. He was the last president to be a member of the Whig Party while in the White House, and th…
U.S. President Millard Fillmore is sworn in, a day after becoming president upon Zachary Taylor's death.
Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, theatre director, essayist, and conductor, best known for his operas, although his mature works are often referred to as music dramas.…
Richard Wagner's Lohengrin premieres at the Staatskapelle Weimar.
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)
Edward Weston was an English-born American chemist and engineer noted for his achievements in electroplating and his development of the electrochemical cell, named the Weston cell,…
Edward Weston, English-American chemist (died 1936)
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)
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)
Max Emil Julius Delbrück was a German agricultural chemist.
Max Delbrück, German chemist and academic (died 1919)
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)
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)
Daniel Carter "Uncle Dan" Beard was an American illustrator, author, youth leader, Georgist and social reformer who founded the Sons of Daniel Boone in 1905, which Beard later merg…
Daniel Carter Beard, American author and illustrator, co-founded the Boy Scouts of America (died 1941)
Ignác Goldziher, often credited as Ignaz Goldziher, was a Hungarian scholar of Islam. Alongside Joseph Schacht and G.H.A. Juynboll, he is considered one of the pioneers of modern a…
Ignác Goldziher, Hungarian scholar of Islam (died 1921)
Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener was a British Army officer and colonial administrator. Kitchener came to prominence for his imperial campaigns, his invo…
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Irish field marshal and politician, Governor-General of Sudan (died 1916)
Jørgen Pedersen Gram was a Danish actuary and mathematician who was born in Nustrup, Duchy of Schleswig, Denmark and died in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician and academic (died 1919)
Yakumo Koizumi was a Greek and Irish writer, translator, and teacher whose work played a significant role in the introduction of the culture and literature of Japan to the mainstr…
Lafcadio Hearn, Greek-Japanese historian and author (died 1904)
Florence Van Leer Nicholson Coates was an American poet whose prolific output was published in dozens of literary magazines, some of it set to music. She was mentored by the Englis…
Florence Earle Coates, American poet (died 1927)
George Ferguson Durand was a Canadian architect. Born in London, Canada West, to a Scottish immigrant, he showed an interest in the arts from a young age. He apprenticed under Will…
George F. Durand, Canadian architect (died 1889)
Annie Walker Armstrong was a lay Southern Baptist denominational leader instrumental in the founding of the Woman's Missionary Union.
Annie Armstrong, American missionary (died 1938)