6 events found for 1850
The American League of Colored Laborers, one of the first labor unions for African Americans, was established in New Yor
Following Zachary Taylor's death, Millard Fillmore (pictured) became president of the United States, the last member…
William Cranch Bond and John Adams Whipple took a daguerreotype of Vega, the first astrophotograph of a star other…
The first section of the Great Northern Railway, now the southern section of the East Coast Main Line, opened between…
The United States Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, decreeing that all escaped slaves be brought back to their…
The inaugural National Women's Rights Convention, presided over by American activist Paulina Wright Davis (pictured),…