Explore 534 historical events from 1850–1859.
Otto Karl Friedrich Schoetensack was a German industrialist and later professor of anthropology, having retired from the chemical firm which he had founded. During a 1908 archeolog…
Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist and academic (died 1912)
Frances Xavier Cabrini, also known as Mother Cabrini, was a prominent Italian-American religious sister in the Catholic Church. She was the first American to be recognized by the C…
Frances Xavier Cabrini, Italian-American nun and saint (died 1917)
Reginald Heber Roe was a headmaster of Brisbane Grammar School, Queensland, Australia and first vice-chancellor of the University of Queensland.
Reginald Heber Roe, English-Australian swimmer, tennis player, and academic (died 1926)
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a 19th-century French author, celebrated as a master of the short story and associated with the naturalist literary school of thought, depic…
Guy de Maupassant, French short story writer, novelist, and poet (died 1893)
Sir John Alexander Cockburn was Premier of South Australia from 27 June 1889 to 18 August 1890.
John Cockburn, Scottish-Australian politician, 18th Premier of South Australia (died 1929)
Charles Robert Richet was a French physiologist at the Collège de France and immunology pioneer. In 1913, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "in recognition of his wo…
Charles Richet, French physiologist and occultist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1935)
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)
Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, was a British Conservative statesman who twice was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and simultaneously was Chancellor of the Exchequer (1834–1835…
Robert Peel, English lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1788)
William Kirby was an English entomologist, an original member of the Linnean Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society, as well as a country rector, so that he was an eminent examp…
William Kirby, English entomologist and author (born 1759)
Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge was the tenth child and seventh son of King George III of the United Kingdom and Queen Charlotte. He held the title of Duke of Cambridge from 180…
Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (born 1774)
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…
Báb, Persian religious leader, founded Bábism (born 1819)
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,…
Zachary Taylor, American general and politician, 12th President of the United States (born 1784)
Robert Stevenson was a Scottish civil engineer, and designer and builder of lighthouses. His works include the Bell Rock Lighthouse.
Robert Stevenson, Scottish engineer (born 1772)
Johann August Wilhelm Neander was a German theologian and church historian.
August Neander, German historian and theologian (born 1789)
Sarah Margaret Fuller, sometimes referred to as Margaret Fuller Ossoli, was an American journalist, editor, critic, translator, and women's rights advocate associated with the Amer…
Margaret Fuller, American journalist and critic (born 1810)
Edward Walsh was an Irish poet, the son of a sergeant in the Cork militia, and was born in Derry City, where his father's regiment had been sent for training. His parents were nat…
Edward Walsh, Irish poet (born 1805)
José Francisco de San Martín y Matorras, nicknamed "the Liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru", was an Argentine general and the primary leader of the southern and central parts o…
José de San Martín, Argentinian general and politician, 1st President of Peru (born 1778)
Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, described as a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his mag…
Honoré de Balzac, French novelist and playwright (born 1799)