Explore 658 historical events from 1850–1859.
Engelbert Humperdinck was a German composer. He is known widely for his opera Hansel and Gretel (1893).
Engelbert Humperdinck, German playwright and composer (died 1921)
Charles T. Tatham was an American fencer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. He was born and died in New York City and worked for his father's lead manufacturing company in P…
Charles Tatham, American fencer (died 1939)
David Dunbar Buick was a Scottish-born American inventor, widely known for founding the Buick Motor Company. He headed this company and its predecessor from 1899–1906, thereby help…
David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-American businessman, founded Buick Motor Company (died 1929)
Robert Jameson FRS FRSE was a Scottish naturalist and mineralogist.
Robert Jameson, Scottish mineralogist and academic (born 1774)
Nicolás Bravo Rueda was a Mexican soldier and politician who served as interim President of Mexico three times, in 1839, 1842, and 1846. Previously, he fought in the Mexican War of…
Nicolás Bravo, Mexican general and politician, 11th President of Mexico (born 1786)
Charles Baudin, was a French admiral, whose naval service extended from the First Empire through the early days of the Second Empire.
Charles Baudin, French admiral (born 1792)
Karl Friedrich Eichhorn was a German jurist.
Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, German academic and jurist (born 1781)
Georg Simon Ohm was a German mathematician and physicist. As a school teacher, Ohm began his research with the new electrochemical cell, invented by Italian scientist Alessandro Vo…
Georg Ohm, German physicist and mathematician (born 1789)
Carl Gottlieb Samuel Heun, better known by his pen name Heinrich Clauren, was a German author.
Heinrich Clauren, German author (born 1771)
Macedonio Melloni was an Italian physicist, notable for demonstrating that radiant heat has similar physical properties to those of light. His works earned him the Rumford Medal an…
Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist and academic (born 1798)
Field Marshal Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, styled Lord Paget between 1784 and 1812 and known as the Earl of Uxbridge between 1812 and 1815, was a British Army off…
Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1768)
Karl Andreas Bernbrunn (1787–1854), known by the stage name Carl Carl, was a Kraków-born actor and theatre director.
Carl Carl, Polish-born actor and theatre director (born 1787)
Shiranui Dakuemon was a Japanese sumo wrestler from Uto, Higo Province. He was the sport's 8th yokozuna, and is the only yokozuna in history to have been demoted.
Shiranui Dakuemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 8th Yokozuna (born 1801)
Thomas Clayton was an American lawyer and politician from Dover in Kent County, Delaware. He was a member of the Federalist Party and later the National Republican Party and the Wh…
Thomas Clayton, American lawyer and politician (born 1777)
The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 was a territorial organic act that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. It was drafted by Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas, passed b…
The Kansas–Nebraska Act became law, establishing the U
Joaquin Murrieta Carrillo, also called the Robin Hood of the West or the Robin Hood of El Dorado, was a Mexican figure of disputed historicity. The novel The Life and Adventures of…
Joaquin Murrieta, the famous Californio bandit known as the "Robin Hood of El Dorado", is killed.
Winthrop Murray Crane was an American businessman and Republican Party politician who served as the 40th governor of Massachusetts from 1900 to 1903 and represented that state in t…
Winthrop M
François Élie Jules Lemaître was a French critic and dramatist.
Jules Lemaître, French playwright and critic (died 1914)
Jacob Michailovitch Gordin was a Russian-American playwright active in the early years of Yiddish theater. He is known for introducing realism and naturalism into Yiddish theater.
Jacob Mikhailovich Gordin, Ukrainian-American journalist, actor, and playwright (died 1909)
The Great Indian Peninsula Railway was a predecessor of the Central Railway, whose headquarters was at the Boree Bunder in Mumbai. The Great Indian Peninsula Railway Company was in…
The Great Indian Peninsula Railway opens the first passenger rail in India, from Bori Bunder to Thane
The Perry Expedition was a diplomatic and military expedition in two separate voyages to the Tokugawa shogunate (徳川幕府) by warships of the United States Navy. The goals of this expe…
The Perry Expedition arrives in Edo Bay with a treaty requesting trade.
A world's fair, also known as a universal exhibition, is a large global exhibition designed to showcase the achievements of nations. These exhibitions vary in character and are hel…
Opening of the first major US world's fair, the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City.
Dennis Joseph "Dan" Brouthers was an American first baseman in Major League Baseball whose career spanned the period from 1879 to 1896, with a brief return in 1904. Nicknamed "Big …
Dan Brouthers, American baseball player and manager (died 1932)
Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, known as Godefroy Cavaignac, was a French politician.
Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (died 1905)