1850

1840 < 1841 < 1842 < 1843 < 1844 < 1845 < 1846 <1847 < 1848 < 1849 < 1850 > 1851 > 1852 > 1853 > 1854 > 1855 > 1856 > 1857 > 1858 > 1859 > 1860

---

( 1850s: )     1850
US President Zachary Taylor dies a few months after his inauguration, most probably poisoned with arsenic by pro-slavery Southerners.
year 1850

Events

• January 29 – Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the United States Congress.
• April 19 – The Clayton–Bulwer Treaty is signed by the United States and Great Britain, allowing both countries to share Nicaragua, and not claim complete control over the proposed Nicaragua Canal.
• June 1 – The transportation of British convicts to Western Australia begins, as the transportation of British convicts to other parts of Australia is phased out, when the ship Scindian arrives in Fremantle, with 75 male prisoners.
• June 1 – The 1850 United States Census shows that 11.2% of the population classed as "Negro" are of mixed race.
• July – Taiping Rebellion: Hong Xiuquan orders the general mobilisation of rebel forces in China.
• July 9 – Mírzá 'Alí-Muhammad, known as the Báb, is executed by a firing squad in Tabriz, Persia, for claiming to be a prophet.
• July 9 – Vice President Millard Fillmore becomes the 13th President of the United States upon the death of President Zachary Taylor, aged 65.
• July 10 – Inauguration of Millard Fillmore: U.S. President Fillmore is sworn in.
• September 4 – The Eusébio de Queirós Law is passed in the Brazilian Empire to abolish the international slave trade.
• September 18 – The Fugitive Slave Law is passed by the United States Congress.
• September 18 – Harriet Tubman becomes an official conductor of the Underground Railroad.
• November &ndash Taiping Rebellion: The first clashes of the Taiping Rebellion occur, between the Imperialist militia and the Heavenly Army.
• November 29 – The treaty known as the Punctation of Olmütz is signed in Olomouc. It means diplomatic capitulation of Prussia to the Austrian Empire, which takes over the leadership of the German Confederation.

Date unknown

• Allan Pinkerton forms the North-Western Police Agency, later the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, in the United States.
• Mayer Lehman arrives from Germany to join his siblings in Lehman Brothers dry-goods business (predecessor of the bank) in Montgomery, Alabama.
• The city of Manchester, England reaches 400,000 inhabitants.
• From this year until 1880, 144,000 East Indian laborers go to Trinidad and 39,000 to Jamaica.
• Ongoing – Great Famine (Ireland) subsides.<ref>

 

Events

Event	Start	End
Pax Brittanica	1815	1915
Victorian era	1840	1901

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
University of Dayton		Research Military ranks Catholic Coeducational Marianist	Private, Catholic research university in Dayton, Ohio.
University of Sydney		University Reserach	Fired professor Tim Anderson when he went against official war narrative
Pinkerton
Lehman Brothers		Commercial	The bank which collapsed in 2008, resulting - according to the official narrative - in the Global Financial Crisis.
University of Rochester		Research Military ranks Nonsectarian	Private research university in Rochester, New York. Participated in MK Ultra and other similar research.
University of Utah		Research Public Flagship Space-grant	Public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah
National Bank of Belgium

 

Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Cause of death	Summary	Description
Robert Peel	5 February 1788	2 July 1850	United Kingdom Westminster			Twice UK PM
Zachary Taylor	24 November 1784	9 July 1850	United States Washington DC	Poisoning	Soldier Politician	President of the United States. Poisoned.
Frédéric Bastiat	29 June 1801	24 December 1850	Rome Papal States	Tuberculosis	Economist	French economist "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary
William Melville	25 April 1850	Eire Sneem County Kerry	1 February 1918	Spook Police officer
Arthur William Patrick Albert	1 May 1850	London United Kingdom Buckingham Palace	16 January 1942	Diplomat Soldier British royal family
Henry Cabot Lodge	12 May 1850	United States Boston Massachusetts	9 November 1924	Diplomat Politician Businessperson

Many thanks to our Patrons who cover ~2/3 of our hosting bill. Please join them if you can.