1850 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1850?
- January 29, 1850 – Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress.
- March 5, 1850 – The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened.
- March 7, 1850 – Senator Daniel Webster gives his “Seventh of March” speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.
- March 18, 1850 – American Express is founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo.
- April 4, 1850 – The Great Fire of Cottenham, a large part of the Cambridgeshire village (England) is burnt to the ground under suspicious circumstances.
- May 15, 1850 – The Bloody Island Massacre takes place in Lake County, California, in which a large number of Pomo Indians in Lake County are slaughtered by a regiment of the United States Cavalry, led by Nathaniel Lyon.
- June 19, 1850 – Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries Crown Prince Karl of Sweden-Norway.
- June 29, 1850 – Autocephaly officially granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to the Church of Greece.
- July 9, 1850 – The Persian prophet Báb is executed in Tabriz, Persia.
- July 10, 1850 – Millard Fillmore is inaugurated as the 13th President of the United States upon the death of President Zachary Taylor, 16 months into his term.
- September 9, 1850 – The Compromise of 1850 transfers a third of Texas’s claimed territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) to federal control in return for the U.S. federal government assuming $10 million of Texas’s pre-annexation debt.
- September 13, 1850 – First ascent of Piz Bernina, the highest summit of the eastern Alps.
- September 18, 1850 – The U.S. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.
- September 29, 1850 – The Roman Catholic hierarchy is re-established in England and Wales by Pope Pius IX.
- October 23, 1850 – The first National Women’s Rights Convention begins in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
- November 24, 1850 – Danish troops defeat a Schleswig-Holstein force in the town of Lottorf, Schleswig-Holstein.
- November 29, 1850 – The treaty, Punctation of Olmütz, is signed in Olomouc. Prussia capitulates to Austrian Empire, which took over the leadership of German Confederation.
- December 16, 1850 – History of New Zealand: The Charlotte-Jane and the Randolph bring the first of the Canterbury Pilgrims to Lyttelton, New Zealand.
- December 25, 1850 – Jagannath Temple, Nayagarh is built.
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