Explore 418 historical events from 1850–1859.
Pierre Curie was a French physicist and chemist, and a pioneer in crystallography and magnetism. He shared one half of the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, Marie Curie, f…
Pierre Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1906)
Horatio Gordon "Horace" Hutchinson was an English amateur golfer who played in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Hutchinson won the 1886 and 1887 Amateur Championships.…
Horace Hutchinson, English golfer (died 1932)
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician. He is best known for his four novels and fifty-six short stories about the fictional consulting detective Sherlo…
Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer (died 1930)
Tsubouchi Shōyō was a Japanese author, critic, playwright, translator, editor, educator, and professor at Waseda University. He has been referred to as a seminal figure in Japanes…
Tsubouchi Shōyō, Japanese author, playwright, and educator (died 1935)
Emanuel Ludvig Nobel was a Swedish oil baron, the eldest son of Ludvig Nobel and his first wife, Mina Ahlsell, grandson of Immanuel Nobel and nephew of Alfred Nobel.
Emanuel Nobel, Swedish-Russian businessman (died 1932)
Christian von Ehrenfels was an Austrian philosopher, and is known as one of the founders and precursors of Gestalt psychology.
Christian von Ehrenfels, Austrian philosopher (died 1932)
Henry Ossawa Tanner was an American artist who spent much of his career in France. He became the first African-American painter to gain international acclaim. Tanner moved to Paris…
Henry Ossawa Tanner, American-French painter and illustrator (died 1937)
DeLancey Walker Gill was an American drafter, landscape painter, and photographer. Gill first became noted for his landscape illustrations and watercolors, featuring subjects such …
DeLancey W. Gill, American painter (died 1940)
Diwan Bahadur Rettamalai Srinivasan, commonly known as R. Srinivasan, was a scheduled caste activist and politician from then Madras Presidency of British India. He is a Paraiyar i…
Rettamalai Srinivasan, Indian politician (died 1945)
Sidney James Webb, 1st Baron Passfield was a British socialist, economist and reformer, who co-founded the London School of Economics. He was an early member of the Fabian Society …
Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield, English economist and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (died 1947)
Willy Hess was a German violinist and violin teacher.
Willy Hess, German violinist and educator (died 1928)
Francisco Rodrigues da Cruz, SJ, more commonly known as Father Cruz was a Portuguese Catholic priest. Revered in Portugal for his apostolic fervor and charity, he visited prisons a…
Francisco Rodrigues da Cruz, Portuguese priest (died 1948)
Sir Henry Simpson Lunn was an English humanitarian and religious figure, and also founder of Lunn Poly, one of the UK's largest travel companies.
Henry Simpson Lunn, English minister and humanitarian, founded Lunn Poly (died 1939)
Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocqueville, was a French diplomat, political philosopher and historian. He is best known for his works Democracy in America and The Old Regim…
Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian and philosopher, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1805)
Tantia Tope was an Indian general in the Indian Rebellion of 1857 against the British East India Company.
Tatya Tope, Indian general (born 1814)
Joseph Diez Gergonne was a French mathematician and logician.
Joseph Diaz Gergonne, French mathematician and philosopher (born 1771)
Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet was a German mathematician. In number theory, he proved special cases of Fermat's Last Theorem and created analytic number theory. In analysis…
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, German mathematician and academic (born 1805)
Sergey Timofeyevich Aksakov was a 19th-century Russian literary figure remembered for his semi-autobiographical tales of family life, as well as his books on hunting and fishing.
Sergey Aksakov, Russian author and academic (born 1791)
Ferdinand II was King of the Two Sicilies from 1830 until his death in 1859.
Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies (born 1810)
David Cox was an English landscape painter, one of the most important members of the Birmingham School of landscape artists and an early precursor of Impressionism.
David Cox, English painter (born 1783)
Baron Charles Cagniard de la Tour was a French engineer and physicist.
Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist and engineer (born 1777)
Oscar I was King of Sweden and Norway from 8 March 1844 until his death. He was the second monarch of the House of Bernadotte.
Oscar I of Sweden (born 1799)
Charles Blondin was a French tightrope walker and acrobat who achieved international fame in the mid-19th Century. Known for crossing the Niagara Gorge on a tightrope, he toured th…
French acrobat Charles Blondin crossed Niagara Gorge, making him one of the world's most famous tightrope walkers
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. He was the younger brot…
Alexander von Humboldt, German geographer and explorer (born 1769)