Explore 418 historical events from 1850–1859.
Theodore Robinson was an American painter best known for his Impressionist landscapes. He was one of the first American artists to take up Impressionism in the late 1880s, visiting…
Theodore Robinson, American painter and academic (died 1896)
Guido Banti was an Italian physician and pathologist. He also performed innovative studies on the heart, infectious diseases and bacteriology, splenomegaly, nephrology, lung diseas…
Guido Banti, Italian physician and pathologist (died 1925)
Friedrich August Johannes Loeffler was a German bacteriologist at the University of Greifswald.
Friedrich Loeffler, German bacteriologist and academic (died 1915)
Antoni Gaudí i Cornet was a Catalan architect and designer from Spain, widely known as the greatest exponent of Catalan Modernisme. Gaudí's works have a sui generis style, with mos…
Antoni Gaudí, Spanish architect, designed the Park Güell (died 1926)
Daoud Corm, also known as David Corm in English, was an influential Lebanese painter and the father of writer, industrialist, and philanthropist Charles Corm. He was a teacher and …
Daoud Corm, Lebanese painter (died 1930)
Juan Hipólito del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Yrigoyen was an Argentine politician of the Radical Civic Union who served as President of Argentina from 1916 to 1922 and again from 192…
Hipólito Yrigoyen, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 19th President of Argentina (died 1933)
Josef Ichhäuser (1852–1920), known by the stage name Josef Josephi (also spelled Joseffy), was an Austrian Empire-born singer (tenor-baritone) and actor.
Josef Josephi, Polish-born singer and actor (died 1920)
Theodorus Heemskerk was a Dutch politician of the Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 12 February 1908 until 29 August 1913.
Theo Heemskerk, Dutch lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (died 1932)
Charles Alfred Cruft was a British showman who founded the Crufts dog show. Charles first became involved with dogs when he began to work at Spratt's, a manufacturer of dog biscuit…
Charles Cruft, English showman, founded Crufts Dog Show (died 1938)
Ivan Aleksandrovich Nabokov was a Russian adjutant general and general of the infantry prominent during the Napoleonic Wars.
Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (born 1787)
Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky was the foremost Russian poet of the 1810s and a leading figure in Russian literature in the first half of the 19th century. He held a high position at…
Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet and translator (born 1783)
Karl Pavlovich Bryullov was a Russian painter and draughtsman during the Romantic period, remembered among the greatest visual artists in the history of Russian art.
Karl Bryullov, Russian painter (born 1799)
Henry Clay was an American lawyer, statesman, and diplomat who represented Kentucky in both the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. He was the seve…
Henry Clay, American lawyer and politician, 9th United States Secretary of State (born 1777)
Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan was a 19th-century politician and lawyer who served briefly as United States Secretary of the Interior under President Millard Fillmore.
Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American lawyer and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of the Interior (born 1794)
A soprano (Italian pronunciation: [soˈpraːno]) is a type of classical singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types. The soprano's vocal range (using scientific …
Swedish operatic soprano Jenny Lind concluded a successful concert tour of the United States under the management of sho
Victoria was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days, which was longer than those of …
Queen Victoria opens The Great Exhibition at The Crystal Palace in London
During the Australian gold rushes, starting in 1851, significant numbers of workers moved from elsewhere in Australia and overseas to where gold had been discovered. Gold had been …
The first Australian gold rush is proclaimed, although the discovery had been made three months earlier
The practice of slavery in present-day Colombia dates back to the pre-Spanish era and persisted until its definitive abolition in 1851. This practice involved the human trafficking…
Slavery in Colombia is abolished
Sojourner Truth was an American abolitionist and activist for African-American civil rights, women's rights, and alcohol temperance. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New …
Sojourner Truth delivers her famous Ain't I a Woman? speech at the Woman's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe was an American author and abolitionist. She came from the religious Beecher family and wrote a popular novel called Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), which…
Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly, starts a ten-month run in the N
Annibale de Gasparis was an Italian astronomer, known for discovering asteroids and his contributions to theoretical astronomy.
Annibale de Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia.
Sir Ponnambalam Ramanathan, was a Ceylonese lawyer and politician who served as Solicitor-General of Ceylon.
Ponnambalam Ramanathan, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, third Solicitor General of Sri Lanka (died 1930)
Aleksandr Pavlovich Dianin was a Russian chemist from Saint Petersburg. He carried out studies on phenols and discovered a phenol derivative now known as bisphenol A and the accord…
Alexander Dianin, Russian chemist (died 1918)
Siegmund Lubin was an American motion picture pioneer who founded the Lubin Manufacturing Company (1902–1917) of Philadelphia.
Siegmund Lubin, Polish-American businessman, founded the Lubin Manufacturing Company (died 1923)