Explore 657 historical events from 1850–1859.
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)
Leopoldo Enrique García-Alas y Ureña, also known as Clarín, was a Spanish realist novelist and journalist born in Zamora. His inflammatory articles, known as paliques (“chitchat”),…
Leopoldo Alas, Spanish author, critic, and academic (died 1901)
Thomas Wilmer Dewing was an American painter working at the turn of the 20th century. Schooled in Paris, Dewing was noted for his figure paintings of aristocratic women. He was a f…
Thomas Dewing, American painter (died 1938)
The Christiana Resistance, also known as Christiana incident, or Christiana riot, was the successful armed resistance by free Blacks and escaped slaves to a raid led by a federal m…
Christiana Resistance: Escaped slaves led by William Parker fight off and kill a slave owner who, with a federal…
The New York Times (NYT) is a newspaper based in Manhattan, New York City. The New York Times covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces and re…
First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times.
Aristide Bruant was a French cabaret singer, comedian, and nightclub owner. He is best known as the man in the red scarf and black cape featured on certain famous posters by Henri …
Aristide Bruant, French singer and actor (died 1925)
Anna Laurens Dawes was an American author and anti-suffragist. She was the daughter of Henry Laurens Dawes, a Republican United States Senator and Representative of Massachusetts.
Anna Laurens Dawes, American author and anti-suffragist (died 1938)
James Herbert Budd was an American lawyer and politician who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for California's 2nd district from 1883 to 1885 and as the 19th…
James Budd, American lawyer and politician, 19th Governor of California (died 1908)
Simon Kahquados, born Kakanisaiga, was a leader of the Potawatomi people in Wisconsin, United States, and played a pivotal role in creating the federally recognized Forest County P…
Simon Kahquados, Potawatomi political activist (died 1930)
Emile Berliner was a German-American inventor and businessman who invented the lateral-cut flat disc record, also known as a "gramophone record," used with a gramophone. He founded…
Emile Berliner, German-American inventor, invented the Gramophone record (died 1929)
Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois was a French statesman. His ideas influenced the Radical Party regarding a wide range of issues.
Léon Bourgeois, French police officer and politician, 64th Prime Minister of France, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1925)
Angelo Moriondo was an Italian inventor, who is usually credited with patenting the earliest known espresso machine, in 1884. His machine used a combination of steam and boiling wa…
Angelo Moriondo, Italian inventor of the espresso machine (died 1914)
Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval was a French physician, physicist and inventor of the moving-coil d'Arsonval galvanometer and the thermocouple ammeter. D'Arsonval was an important contri…
Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, French physician and physicist (died 1940)
Charles Joseph Bonaparte was an American lawyer and political activist of French noble descent who advocated for progressive and liberal causes. Originally from Baltimore, Maryland…
Charles Joseph Bonaparte, American lawyer and politician, 46th United States Attorney General (died 1921)
Ture Robert Ferdinand Malmgren was a Swedish journalist, book publisher, and municipal politician. A prominent figure in his hometown of Uddevalla, Malmgren became a colorful and w…
Ture Malmgren, Swedish journalist and politician (died 1922)
Cora Agnes Benneson was an American attorney, lecturer, and writer. She was one of the first women to practice law in New England. Benneson was raised in Quincy, Illinois, to paren…
Cora Agnes Benneson, American attorney (died 1919)
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge was an English physicist and electrical engineer whose investigations into electromagnetic radiation (EMR) contributed to the development of radio. He ident…
Oliver Lodge, English physicist and academic (died 1940)
William Evans Midwinter was a cricketer who played four Test matches for England, sandwiched between eight for Australia. He was the only cricketer to have played for Australia and…
Billy Midwinter, English-Australian cricketer (died 1890)
Silvanus Phillips Thompson was an English professor of physics at the City and Guilds Technical College in Finsbury, England. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1891 and was kn…
Silvanus P
Charles Bannerman was an English-born Australian cricketer. A right-handed batsman, he represented Australia in three Test matches between 1877 and 1879. At the domestic level, he …
Charles Bannerman, English-Australian cricketer and umpire (died 1930)
Charles Albert Tindley was an African-American Methodist minister and gospel music composer. His composition "I'll Overcome Someday" is credited as the basis for the U.S. Civil Rig…
Charles Albert Tindley, American minister and composer (died 1933)
Sir Arthur John Evans was a British archaeologist and pioneer in the study of Aegean civilization in the Bronze Age.
Arthur Evans, English archaeologist and academic (died 1941)
John (Jack) Murray was an Australian politician who was the 23rd premier of Victoria from 1909 to 1912.
John Murray, Australian politician, 23rd Premier of Victoria (died 1916)