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1850 (MDCCCL ) was acommon year starting on Tuesday of theGregorian calendar and acommon year starting on Sunday of theJulian calendar , the 1850th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini 2nd millennium , the 50th year of the19th century , and the 1st year of the1850s decade. As of the start of 1850, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
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October 1 – TheUniversity of Sydney (the oldest in Australia) is founded.October 19 – ThePhi Kappa Sigma international fraternity is founded, at theUniversity of Pennsylvania .October 28 – DelegateEdward Ralph May delivers a speech on behalf of African-American suffrage, to theIndiana Constitutional Convention.November Taiping Rebellion : The first clashes of the Taiping Rebellion occur, between theImperialist militia and the Heavenly Army.Undergraduates atExeter College, Oxford arrange a "foot grind" (a cross-country steeplechase), the first organised university athletic event.[ 4] November 29 – The treaty known as thePunctation of Olmütz is signed inOlomouc . It means diplomatic capitulation ofPrussia to theAustrian Empire , which takes over the leadership of theGerman Confederation .December 16 – Members of theCanterbury Association , the first settlers bound forChristchurch , arrive from England at the port ofLyttelton, New Zealand , aboard theCharlotte Jane Randolph Dost Mohammad Barakzai , emir of Afghanistan, capturesBalkh .[ 5] The first portion of theOudh Bequest is transferred fromOudh State in theBritish Raj to theShia Islam holy cities ofNajaf andKarbala , inPersia . TheAmerican system of watch manufacturing is started inRoxbury, Massachusetts , by theWaltham Watch Company . Bingley Hall , the world's first purpose-built exhibition hall, opens inBirmingham , England.Allan Pinkerton forms the North-Western Police Agency, later thePinkerton National Detective Agency , in the United States.The temperance organisation,International Organisation of Good Templars , is established inUtica, New York , as the order of the Knights of Jericho. Mayer Lehman arrives from Germany to join his siblings inLehman Brothers dry-goods business (predecessor of the bank) inMontgomery, Alabama .One of the original segments of the historicPacific Highway (United States) inWashington (state) inClark andCowlitz counties is established.[ 6] German physicistRudolf Clausius publishes his paper on the mechanical theory of heat ("On the Moving Force of Heat") which first states the basic ideas of thesecond law of thermodynamics . The city ofManchester , England, reaches 400,000 inhabitants. From this year until1880 , 144,000East Indian laborers go toTrinidad and 39,000 toJamaica . Ongoing –Great Famine (Ireland) subsides.[ 7] Sofia Kovalevskaya Mary Noailles Murfree Mihai Eminescu January 1 –John Barclay Armstrong , Texas Ranger, U.S. Marshal (d.1913 )January 6 January 10 –John Wellborn Root , American architect (d.1891 )January 11 –Philipp von Ferrary , Italian stamp collector (d.1917 )January 14 –Pierre Loti , French novelist (d.1923 )[ 8] January 15 January 18 –Seth Low , American educator (d.1916 )January 19 –Augustine Birrell , English author, politician (d.1933 )January 24 –Hermann Ebbinghaus , German psychologist (d.1909 )January 27 January 29 February 8 –Kate Chopin , American writer (d.1904 )[ 11] February 10 –Alexander von Linsingen , German general (d.1935 )February 12 –William Morris Davis , American geographer (d.1934 )February 14 –Kiyoura Keigo , Prime Minister of Japan (d.1942 )February 15 –Albert B. Cummins , American lawyer and politician (d.1926 )February 17 –Alf Morgans , 4th Premier of Western Australia (d.1933 )February 18 –Sir George Henschel , English musician (d.1934 )February 23 –César Ritz , Swiss hotelier (d.1918 )February 27 –Henry E. Huntington , American railroad pioneer, art collector (d.1927 )Fanny Davenport Hans von Pechmann April 1 –Hans von Pechmann , German chemist (d.1902 )April 8 –Kawamura Kageaki , Japanese field marshal (d.1926 )April 9 –Sir Julius Wernher , German-born British businessman, art collector (d.1912 )April 10 April 12 –Nikolai Golitsyn , Prime Minister of Russia (d.1925 )April 13 –Arthur Matthew Weld Downing , British astronomer (d.1917 )April 15 April 18 –Jo Labadie , American labor organizer (d.1933 )April 20 –Daniel Chester French , American sculptor (d.1931 )April 23 –Agda Montelius , Swedish feminist (d.1920 )April 26 April 27 –Hans Hartwig von Beseler , German general (d.1921 )May 1 –Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn , British prince and Governor General of Canada (d.1942 )May 3 –Johnny Ringo , American cowboy (d.1882 )May 7 –Anton Seidl , Hungarian conductor (d.1898 )May 8 –Ross Barnes , American baseball player (d.1915 )May 10 –Sir Thomas Lipton , Scottish merchant, yachtsman (d.1931 )May 12 May 18 –Oliver Heaviside , British engineer (d.1925 )May 21 May 27 –Thomas Neill Cream , Scottish-Canadian serial killer (d.1892 )May 28 –Frederic William Maitland , English jurist and historian (d.1906 )May 30 –Frederick Dent Grant , U.S. soldier, statesman (d.1912 )June 2 June 5 –Pat Garrett , American bartender and sheriff (d.1908 )Karl Ferdinand Braun June 6 –Karl Ferdinand Braun , German physicist,Nobel Prize laureate (d.1918 )June 15 –Charles Hazelius Sternberg , American fossil collector, amateur paleontologist (d.1943 )June 21 –Daniel Carter Beard , American scouting pioneer (d.1941 )June 22 –Ignaz Goldziher , Hungarian orientalist (d.1921 )June 24 –Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener , British field marshal, statesman (d.1916 )June 27 June 30 –Paul von Plehwe , Russian general (d.1916 )Robert Louis Stevenson Daoguang Emperor January 17 –Elizabeth Simcoe , English-born wife of John Graves Simcoe (b.1762 )January 2 –Manuel de la Peña y Peña , interim President of Mexico (b.1789 )January 20 –Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger , Danish poet, playwright (b.1779 )[ 17] January 22 January 26 –Francis Jeffrey , Scottish judge, literary critic (b.1773 )January 27 February 4 –Daniel Turner , officer in the United States Navy (b.1794 )February 20 –Valentín Canalizo , acting president of Mexico (b.1794 )February 23 –Matthew Whitworth-Aylmer, 5th Baron Aylmer , British military officer, colonial administrator (b.1775 )February 24 –Tan Tock Seng , Singaporean businessman, philanthropist (b.1798 )February 25 –Daoguang Emperor of theQing dynasty of China (b.1782 )February 27 –Samuel Adams , Democratic Governor of the State of Arkansas (b.1805 )February 28 –Edward Bickersteth , English evangelical divine (b.1786 )March 3 –Oliver Cowdery , American religious leader (b.1806 )March 7 –Sir Hercules Robert Pakenham , British army general (b.1781 )March 13 March 26 –Samuel Turell Armstrong , American political figure (b.1784 )March 27 –Wilhelm Beer , German banker, astronomer (b.1797 )March 28 –Gerard Brandon , Governor of Mississippi (b.1788 )March 31 –John C. Calhoun ,7th Vice President of the United States (b.1782 )William Wordsworth Marie Tussaud April 7 –William Lisle Bowles , English poet, critic (b.1762 )April 9 –William Prout , English chemist, physician (b.1785 )April 11 –Raja Nara Singh , regent ofManipur (b.1792 )April 12 –Adoniram Judson , American Baptist missionary (b.1788 )April 16 –Marie Tussaud , French wax sculptor (b.1761 )April 17 –Jan Krukowiecki , Polish general (b.1772 )April 22 –Friedrich Robert Faehlmann , Estonian philologist, physician (b.1798 )April 23 –William Wordsworth , English poet (b.1770 )[ 18] April 24 –John Norvell , American newspaperman, senator (b.1789 )May 1 –Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville , French zoologist, anatomist (b.1777 )May 2 –Joseph Plumb Martin , American Revolutionary soldier, narrative author (b.1760 )May 10 –Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac , French chemist, physicist (b.1778 )May 12 –Frances Sargent Osgood , U.S. poet (b.1811 )May 21 –Christoph Friedrich von Ammon , German theological writer, preacher (b.1766 )May 24 May 31 –Giuseppe Giusti , Tuscan satirical poet (b.1809 )June 9 –John Green Crosse , English surgeon (b.1790 )June 16 –William Lawson , British explorer of New South Wales (b.1774 )June 30 –Richard Dillingham , American Quaker teacher (b.1823 )Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge José de San Martín Honoré de Balzac Louis Philippe I July 2 –Robert Peel ,Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b.1788 )July 4 –William Kirby , English entomologist (b.1759 )July 7 –Timothy Hackworth , British steam locomotive engineer (b.1786 )July 8 –Prince Adolphus of the United Kingdom , 1st Duke of Cambridge (b.1774 )[ 19] July 9 July 12 –Robert Stevenson , Scottish lighthouse engineer (b.1772 )[ 20] July 14 –August Neander , German theologian, church historian (b.1789 )[ 21] July 16 –Julia Glover , Irish-born British stage actress (b. ca.1779 )July 19 –Margaret Fuller , American journalist (b.1810 )July 23 –Vicente Filisola , Italian-born Mexican General (b.1785 )July 25 –Richard Barnes Mason , military governor of California (b.1797 )August 3 –Jacob Jones , U.S. Navy officer (b.1768 )August 6 August 13 –Martin Archer Shee , Irish painter, president of the Royal Academy (b.1770 )August 17 – GeneralJosé de San Martín ,Argentine military and South American independence hero (b.1778 )August 18 August 22 –Nikolaus Lenau , Austrian poet (b.1802 )August 26 – KingLouis Philippe I of France (b.1773 )[ 23] August 27 –Thomas Kidd , English classical scholar, schoolmaster (b.1770 )September 2 –Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn , British Tory politician (b.1775 )September 12 –Presley O'Bannon , officer in the United States Marine Corps (b.1784 )September 22 –Johann Heinrich von Thünen , German economist (b.1783 )September 23 –José Gervasio Artigas , Uruguayan revolutionary (b.1764 )Sarah Biffen October 2 –Sarah Biffen , English painter (b.1784 )October 11 –Louise, Queen of the Belgians (b.1812 )October 29 –Marmaduke Williams , Democratic-Republican U.S. Congressman from North Carolina (b.1774 )November 2 –Richard Dobbs Spaight Jr. , Democratic governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina (b.1796 )November 3 –Thomas Ford , governor of Illinois (b.1800 )November 4 –Gustav Schwab , German classical scholar (b.1792 )November 9 –François-Xavier-Joseph Droz , French writer on ethics and political science (b.1773 )November 19 –Richard Mentor Johnson ,9th Vice President of the United States (b.1780 )November 22 –Lin Zexu , Chinese politician (b.1785 )November 30 –Germain Henri Hess , Swiss chemist, doctor (b.1802 )December 4 –William Sturgeon , English physicist, inventor (b.1783 )December 10 December 22 –William Plumer , American lawyer, lay preacher (b.1759 )December 24 –Frédéric Bastiat French author, economist (b.1801 )December 28 –Heinrich Christian Schumacher , German astronomer (b.1780 )December 30 –Pierre M. 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