Explore 785 historical events from 1850–1859.
The Treaty of Amity and Commerce between Japan and the United States , also called the Harris Treaty was a treaty signed between the United States and Tokugawa Shogunate, which ope…
United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty.
The Bawani Imli massacre was the execution of 52 Indian freedom fighters including Jodha Singh Ataiya by British East India Company forces on 28 April 1858 during the Indian Rebell…
The Bawani Imli massacre, where 52 Indian freedom fighters are hanged to death on a tamarind tree by British colonial fo
Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have…
Charles Darwin receives a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace that includes nearly identical conclusions about evolution as
Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have…
Joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society of London.
The Government of India Act 1858 was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed on 2 August 1858. Its provisions called for the liquidation of the East India Company and…
The Government of India Act 1858 replaces Company rule in India with that of the British Raj.
Cyrus West Field was an American businessman and financier who, along with other entrepreneurs, created the Atlantic Telegraph Company and laid the first telegraph cable across the…
Cyrus West Field and others complete the first transatlantic telegraph cable after several unsuccessful attempts. It…
Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply footy or just football, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an o…
The first Australian rules football match is played between Melbourne Grammar and Scotch College.
George Mary Searle was an American astronomer and Catholic priest.
George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
Alexander Minasi Movsisian, better known by his pen name Alexander Shirvanzade was an Armenian playwright and novelist. He was one of the main representatives of the realist moveme…
Alexander Shirvanzade, Armenian playwright and author (died 1935)
Dame Ethel Mary Smyth was an English composer and a member of the women's suffrage movement. Her compositions include songs, works for piano, chamber music, orchestral works, chora…
Ethel Smyth, English composer (died 1944)
Frédéric Henri Godefroid Émile Constantin (Fritz) ridder Mayer van den Bergh was a Belgian art collector and art historian.
Fritz Mayer van den Bergh, Belgian art collector and art historian (died 1901)
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was a German theoretical physicist. He won the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the services he rendered to the advancement of physics by his discovery…
Max Planck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1947)
The Eiger is a 3,967-metre (13,015 ft) mountain of the Bernese Alps, overlooking Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland, just north of the main waters…
The Eiger in the Bernese Alps is ascended for the first time by Charles Barrington accompanied by Christian Almer and…
James Buchanan Jr. was the 15th president of the United States, serving from 1857 to 1861. He also served as the 17th United States secretary of state from 1845 to 1849 and represe…
U.S. President James Buchanan inaugurates the new transatlantic telegraph cable by exchanging greetings with Queen…
Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have…
Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution through natural selection in The Journal of the Proceedings of…
The Lincoln–Douglas debates were a series of seven debates in 1858 between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican Party candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent…
The first of the Lincoln–Douglas debates is held in Ottawa, Illinois.
Bradford is a city in West Yorkshire, England. It became a municipal borough in 1847, received a city charter in 1897 and, since the 1974 reform, the city status has belonged to th…
Approximately 20 people die in Bradford, England, UK, after being poisoned from ingesting sweets that had been…
John Laing Leal was an American physician and water treatment expert who, in 1908, was responsible for conceiving and implementing the first disinfection of a U.S. drinking water s…
John L
Heinrich Berté, born Heinrich Bettelheim was an Austrian-Hungarian composer of operas and operettas.
Heinrich Berté, Slovak-Austrian composer (died 1924)
John Meade Falkner was an English novelist and poet, best known for his 1898 novel Moonfleet. An extremely successful businessman, he became chairman of the arms manufacturer Armst…
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Dhondo Keshav Karve, popularly known as Maharshi Karve, was a social reformer in India in the field of women's welfare. He advocated widow remarriage, and he himself remarried a wi…
Dhondo Keshav Karve, Indian educator and activist, Bharat Ratna Awardee (died 1962)
Édouard Jean-Baptiste Goursat was a French mathematician, now remembered principally as an expositor for his Cours d'analyse mathématique, which appeared in the first decade of the…
Édouard Goursat, French mathematician (died 1936)
Belmiro Barbosa de Almeida was a Brazilian painter, illustrator, sculptor and caricaturist.
Belmiro de Almeida, Brazilian painter, illustrator, sculptor (died 1935)
Carl Richard Nyberg was a Swedish inventor and industrialist. Nyberg was a pioneer in mechanical engineering. He received a patent for a blow lamp and was an aviation pioneer.
Carl Richard Nyberg, Swedish inventor and businessman, developed the blow torch (died 1939)