Explore 418 historical events from 1850–1859.
Patrick Floyd Jarvis Garrett was an American Old West lawman, bartender, and customs agent known for killing Billy the Kid. He was the sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico, as wel…
Pat Garrett, American sheriff (died 1908)
Max Emil Julius Delbrück was a German agricultural chemist.
Max Delbrück, German chemist and academic (died 1919)
William Arnon Henry was an American academic and agriculturist from Ohio. Henry studied at the National Normal University and Ohio Wesleyan University before becoming a principal o…
William Arnon Henry American academic and agriculturist (died 1932)
Karl Ferdinand Braun was a German applied physicist who shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Guglielmo Marconi for their contributions to the development of radio. With his …
Karl Ferdinand Braun, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate in 1909 for physics (died 1918)
Richard Franz Joseph Heuberger was an Austrian composer of operas and operettas, a music critic, and teacher.
Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer and critic (died 1914)
Rev. David Jayne Hill was an American academic, diplomat and author. He was president of Bucknell University and the University of Rochester.
David Jayne Hill, American historian and politician, 24th United States Assistant Secretary of State (died 1932)
Daniel Carter "Uncle Dan" Beard was an American illustrator, author, youth leader, Georgist and social reformer who founded the Sons of Daniel Boone in 1905, which Beard later merg…
Daniel Carter Beard, American author and illustrator, co-founded the Boy Scouts of America (died 1941)
Ignác Goldziher, often credited as Ignaz Goldziher, was a Hungarian scholar of Islam. Alongside Joseph Schacht and G.H.A. Juynboll, he is considered one of the pioneers of modern a…
Ignác Goldziher, Hungarian scholar of Islam (died 1921)
Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener was a British Army officer and colonial administrator. Kitchener came to prominence for his imperial campaigns, his invo…
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Irish field marshal and politician, Governor-General of Sudan (died 1916)
Jørgen Pedersen Gram was a Danish actuary and mathematician who was born in Nustrup, Duchy of Schleswig, Denmark and died in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician and academic (died 1919)
Yakumo Koizumi was a Greek and Irish writer, translator, and teacher whose work played a significant role in the introduction of the culture and literature of Japan to the mainstr…
Lafcadio Hearn, Greek-Japanese historian and author (died 1904)
Florence Van Leer Nicholson Coates was an American poet whose prolific output was published in dozens of literary magazines, some of it set to music. She was mentored by the Englis…
Florence Earle Coates, American poet (died 1927)
Annie Walker Armstrong was a lay Southern Baptist denominational leader instrumental in the founding of the Woman's Missionary Union.
Annie Armstrong, American missionary (died 1938)
Otto Karl Friedrich Schoetensack was a German industrialist and later professor of anthropology, having retired from the chemical firm which he had founded. During a 1908 archeolog…
Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist and academic (died 1912)
Frances Xavier Cabrini, also known as Mother Cabrini, was a prominent Italian-American religious sister in the Catholic Church. She was the first American to be recognized by the C…
Frances Xavier Cabrini, Italian-American nun and saint (died 1917)
Anna Maria "Marie" Tussaud, commonly known as Madame Tussaud, was a French artist known for her wax sculptures and Madame Tussauds, the wax museum she founded in London.
Marie Tussaud, French-English sculptor, founded the Madame Tussauds Wax Museum (born 1761)
George Ferguson Durand was a Canadian architect. Born in London, Canada West, to a Scottish immigrant, he showed an interest in the arts from a young age. He apprenticed under Will…
George F. Durand, Canadian architect (died 1889)
Friedrich Robert Faehlmann (Fählmann) was an Estonian writer, medical doctor and philologist. He was a co-founder of the Learned Estonian Society and its chairman (1843-1850).
Friedrich Robert Faehlmann, Estonian philologist and physician (born 1798)
William Wordsworth was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ball…
William Wordsworth, English poet and author (born 1770)
John Joel Glanton was an early settler of Arkansas Territory. He was also a Texas Ranger and a soldier in the Mexican–American War and the leader of a notorious gang of scalp-hunte…
John Joel Glanton, American outlaw, soldier, mercenary, and Texas ranger (born ~1819)
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac was a French chemist and physicist. He is known mostly for his discovery that water is made of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen by volume, for two law…
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist and physicist (born 1778)
Garlieb Helwig Merkel was a Baltic German writer and activist and an early Estophile and Lettophile.
Garlieb Merkel, Baltic German author and activist (born 1769)
William Lawson, MLC was a British soldier, explorer, land owner, grazier and politician. In 1800, he migrated to Sydney, New South Wales, and from 1819, he served as the commandant…
William Lawson, English-Australian explorer and politician (born 1774)
Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, was a British Conservative statesman who twice was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and simultaneously was Chancellor of the Exchequer (1834–1835…
Robert Peel, English lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1788)