1850

{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;"\n|- \n| align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1847 1848 1849 - 1850 - 1851 1852 1853 \n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1820s 1830s 1840s - 1850s - 1860s 1870s 1880s \n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

\n* January 4 - The first American ice-skating club is formed (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).\n* January 29 - Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the United States Congress\n* February 28 - University of Utah opens in Salt Lake City, Utah\n* March 7 - United States Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech in which he endorses the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.\n* March 18 - American Express is founded by Henry Wells & William Fargo.\n* April 4 - Los Angeles, California is incorporated as a city.\n* July 9 - President Zachary Taylor dies while in office and Millard Fillmore becomes the 13th President of the United States (he is inaugurated the next day).\n* August 28 - Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin premieres\n* September 9 - California is admitted as the 31st U.S. state.\n* September 9 - New Mexico Territory is organized by order of the U.S. Congress\n* December 16 - The first four ships arrived at Lyttelton to settle Christchurch, New Zealand. \n* End of the Irish potato famine\n* The United States Republican Party is founded\n* Foundation of the University of Sydney, the oldest in Australia\n* The American System of Watch Manufacturing starts in Roxbury, Mass.U.S.A. Waltham Watch Company\n* Bingley Hall, the world's first purpose- built exhibition hall, opens in Birmingham, England.\n* Pinkerton Detective Agency\n* France begins to transport colonists to Algeria\n* Modern acoustic guitar created in Spain\n* Use of anesthesia in surgery increases in USA and Europe\n* Rifling becomes common in firearms\n* Entre Rios province in Argentina revolts - it is backed by Brazil in alliance with Paraguay and the Uruguayan Colorado Party

Births

\n* January 21 - Paul Vinzenz Busch, ringmaster (+ 1927)\n* January 27 - Samuel Gompers, labor union leader (+ 1924)\n* May 1 - Prince Arthur of the United Kingdom, third son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, later Duke of Connaught and Strathearn\n* May 8 - Ross Barnes, baseball player\n* May 12 - Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. statesman (+ 1924)\n* September 2 - Albert Spalding, baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer\n* November 13 - Robert Louis Stevenson (+ 1894)

Deaths

\n* July 8 - Prince Adolphus of the United Kingdom, 1st Duke of Cambridge\n* July 9 - Zachary Taylor, President of the United States\n* August 18 - Honoré de Balzac, author\n* November 19 - Richard Mentor Johnson, Vice President of the United States\n* December 24 - Frédéric Bastiat french classical liberal author and economist. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n