Explore 657 historical events from 1850–1859.
Giuseppe Mercalli was an Italian volcanologist and Catholic priest. He is known best for the Mercalli intensity scale for measuring earthquake intensity.
Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian priest and volcanologist (died 1914)
Charles Roscoe Barnes was one of the stars of baseball's National Association (1871–1875) and the early National League (1876–1881), playing second base and shortstop. He played fo…
Ross Barnes, American baseball player and manager (died 1915)
Henry Cabot Lodge was an American politician, historian, lawyer, and statesman from Massachusetts. A member of the Republican Party, he served in the United States Senate from 1893…
Henry Cabot Lodge, American historian and politician (died 1924)
Oliver Heaviside was a British mathematician and electrical engineer who invented a new technique for solving differential equations, independently developed vector calculus, and r…
Oliver Heaviside, English engineer, mathematician, and physicist (died 1925)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Reginald Heber Roe was a headmaster of Brisbane Grammar School, Queensland, Australia and first vice-chancellor of the University of Queensland.
Reginald Heber Roe, English-Australian swimmer, tennis player, and academic (died 1926)
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a 19th-century French author, celebrated as a master of the short story and associated with the naturalist literary school of thought, depic…
Guy de Maupassant, French short story writer, novelist, and poet (died 1893)
Sir John Alexander Cockburn was Premier of South Australia from 27 June 1889 to 18 August 1890.
John Cockburn, Scottish-Australian politician, 18th Premier of South Australia (died 1929)
Marcelo Hilario del Pilar y Gatmaitán, commonly known as Marcelo H. del Pilar and also known by his nom de plume Pláridel, was a Filipino writer, lawyer, journalist, and freemason.…
Marcelo H. del Pilar, Filipino journalist and lawyer (died 1896)