Explore 657 historical events from 1850–1859.
1841 (MDCCCXLI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1841st year of the Common Era (CE…
Marie Andrieu, French anarchist, cartomancer and spiritualist (died 1911)
Peder Severin Krøyer, also known as P. S. Krøyer, was a Norwegian-Danish painter who was a member of the Skagen Painters. Born in Norway, he grew up in Copenhagen under the care of…
Peder Severin Krøyer, Norwegian-Danish painter (died 1909)
Friedrich Hermann Schottky was a German mathematician who worked on elliptic, abelian, and theta functions and introduced Schottky groups and Schottky's theorem.
Friedrich Schottky, Polish-German mathematician and theorist (died 1935)
Sir George Turner was an Australian politician. He served two terms as Premier of Victoria, holding office from 1894 to 1899 and 1900 to 1901 as a liberal. After Federation he was …
George Turner, Australian politician, 18th Premier of Victoria (died 1916)
Felix Adler was a German-American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, influential lecturer on euthanasia, religious leader and social reformer who founded the Et…
Felix Adler, German-American religious leader and educator (died 1933)
John Henry Holliday, better known as Doc Holliday, was an American dentist, gambler, and gunfighter who was a close friend and associate of lawman Wyatt Earp. Holliday is best know…
Doc Holliday, American dentist and gambler (died 1887)
Charles Eugene Barrois was a French geologist and palaeontologist.
Charles Barrois, French geologist and palaeontologist (died 1939)
Thomas Kingston Kendall was an Australian cricketer, who played in two Test matches in 1877, including the inaugural Test which was played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in March …
Tom Kendall, Australian cricketer and journalist (died 1924)
John Philip Clum was an Indian agent for the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in the Arizona Territory. He implemented a limited form of self-government on the reservation that…
John Clum, American journalist and agent (died 1932)
Olga Constantinovna of Russia was Queen of Greece as the wife of King George I. She was briefly the regent of Greece in 1920.
Olga Constantinovna of Russia, Queen consort of the Hellenes (died 1926)
John Dillon was an Irish politician from Dublin, who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for over 35 years and was the last leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party. By political …
John Dillon, Irish poet and politician (died 1927)
Edward Asahel Birge was an American professor and administrator at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was one of the pioneers of the study of limnology, and served as acting p…
Edward Asahel Birge, American zoologist and academic (died 1950)
Walter Reed was a U.S. Army physician who in 1901 led the team that confirmed the theory of Cuban-American doctor Carlos Finlay that yellow fever is transmitted by a particular mos…
Walter Reed, American physician and biologist (died 1902)
Henry Arthur Jones was an English dramatist, who was first noted for his melodrama The Silver King (1882), and went on to write prolifically, often appearing to mirror Ibsen from t…
Henry Arthur Jones, English playwright and critic (died 1929)
Anne-Marie Javouhey, SJC was a French nun who founded the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Cluny. She is venerated in the Roman Catholic Church. She is known as the Liberator of the Slav…
Anne-Marie Javouhey, French nun, founder of the Sisters of St Joseph of Cluny (born 1779)
Juan Felipe Ibarra was an Argentine soldier and politician. He was one of the caudillos who dominated the Argentine interior during the formation of the national state, and ruled…
Juan Felipe Ibarra, Argentinian general and politician (born 1787)
John Greeley Jenkins was an American-Australian politician. He was Premier of South Australia from 1901 to 1905. He had previously served as Minister for Education and the Northern…
John Jenkins, American-Australian businessman and politician, 22nd Premier of South Australia (died 1923)
Mordecai Manuel Noah was an American sheriff, playwright, diplomat, journalist, and utopian. He was born in a family of mixed Ashkenazi and Portuguese Sephardic ancestry and was th…
Mordecai Manuel Noah, American journalist and diplomat (born 1755)
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre was a French scientist, artist and photographer recognized for his invention of the eponymous daguerreotype process of photography. He became known as …
Louis Daguerre, French photographer and physicist, invented the daguerreotype (born 1787)
Matooskie, also known as Anne "Nancy" McKenzie, was a First Nations woman of the Chipewyan (Dënesųłı̨né) nation in Canada. The daughter of Scottish-Canadian fur trader Roderick Mac…
Matooskie, First Nations woman
William Joseph Behr, German publicist and writer.
William Joseph Behr, German publicist and academic (born 1775)
Lorenz Oken was a German naturalist, botanist, biologist, and ornithologist. He became a professor of natural history at the University of Jena and from 1833 at the newly founded U…
Lorenz Oken, German botanist, biologist, and ornithologist (born 1779)
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet was an American educator. Along with Laurent Clerc and Mason Cogswell, he co-founded the first permanent institution for the education of the deaf in North…
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American minister and educator (born 1787)
Sylvester Graham was an American Presbyterian minister and dietary reformer. He was known for his emphasis on vegetarianism, the temperance movement, and eating whole-grain bread. …
Sylvester Graham, American minister and dietary reformer, namesake of the graham cracker (born 1794)