Explore 658 historical events from 1850–1859.
Giuseppe Peano was an Italian mathematician and glottologist. The author of over 200 books and papers, he was a founder of mathematical logic and set theory, to which he contribute…
Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician and philosopher (died 1932)
Ignaz Stanislaus Sowinski was a Polish architect and journalist who was active in Galicia from the middle of the 1880s and until the outbreak of World War I.
Ignaz Sowinski, Galician architect (died 1917)
Charles de Foucauld, born as Charles Eugène, vicomte de Foucauld de Pontbriand, in religion Charles of Jesus, was a French monk, Catholic priest and hermit who lived among the Tuar…
Charles de Foucauld, French priest and martyr (died 1916)
Jenő Hubay de Szalatnya, also known by his German name Eugen Huber, was a Hungarian violinist, composer and music teacher.
Jenő Hubay, Hungarian violinist, composer, and educator (died 1937)
Sir Edward Marshall Hall, was an English barrister and politician who had a formidable reputation as an orator. He successfully defended many people accused of murder and became kn…
Edward Marshall Hall, English lawyer and politician (died 1927)
Andrew Bonar Law was a British Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1922 to 1923. His premiership lasted 211 days; he resigned in May 1923 afte…
Bonar Law, Canadian-Scottish banker and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1923)
Catherine Booth-Clibborn was an English Salvationist and evangelist who extended the Salvation Army into France and Switzerland against local opposition. She was the oldest daughte…
Kate Booth, English Salvation Army officer (died 1955)
Johannes Peter Müller was a German physiologist, comparative anatomist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist, known not only for his discoveries but also for his ability to synthesize …
Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist and anatomist (born 1801)
Friedrich Julius Reubke was a German composer, pianist and organist associated with the school of Romanticism. A pupil of Franz Liszt, his small œuvre includes the Sonata on the 94…
Julius Reubke, German pianist and composer (born 1834)
José Mariano de la Cruz de la Riva Agüero y Sánchez Boquete was a Peruvian soldier and politician who was the first president of Peru and the second president of North Peru, a cons…
José de la Riva Agüero, Peruvian soldier and politician, 1st President of Peru and 2nd President of North Peru (born 178
Ary Scheffer was a Dutch-French Romantic painter. He was known mostly for his works based on literature, with paintings based on the works of Dante, Goethe, Lord Byron and Walter S…
Ary Scheffer, Dutch-French painter and academic (born 1795)
John Snow was an English physician and a leader in the development of anaesthesia and medical hygiene. He is considered one of the founders of modern epidemiology and early germ th…
John Snow, English epidemiologist and physician (born 1813)
Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov was a Russian painter who adhered to the waning tradition of Neoclassicism but found little sympathy with his contemporaries. Although Ivanov was born …
Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Russian painter (born 1806)
Empress Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité Bonheur, Empress of Haiti was the Empress of Haiti (1804–1806) as the wife of Jean-Jacques Dessalines.
Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité Bonheur, Haitian Empress (born 1758)
Chief Oshkosh was a chief of the Menominee Native Americans, recognized as the leader of the Menominee people by the United States government from August 7, 1827, until his death. …
Chief Oshkosh, Menominee chief (born 1795)
Dred Scott was an enslaved African-American man who, along with his wife, Harriet Robinson Scott, unsuccessfully sued for the freedom of themselves and their two daughters, Eliza a…
Dred Scott, American slave, plaintiff in the Dred Scott Decision (born 1795)
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the Bri…
Indian Rebellion of 1857: The Bawani Imli massacre saw 52 Indian freedom fighters hanged by British forces
Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario to the north and east and by the U.S. sta…
Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted as the 32nd U
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 received a manuscript by fellow naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace on natural selection, which encouraged h
The Spirits' Book is part of the Spiritist Codification, and is regarded as one of the five fundamental works on Spiritism. It was published by the French educator Hippolyte Léon D…
"The Spirits Book" by Allan Kardec is published, marking the birth of Spiritualism in France
Mindon Min, born Maung Lwin, was the penultimate king of Burma (Myanmar) from 1853 to 1878. He was one of the most popular and revered kings of Burma because of his role in the Fif…
Mindon Min was crowned as King of Burma in Mandalay, Burma
Charles-Pierre Baudelaire was a French poet, essayist, translator and art critic. His poems are described as exhibiting mastery of rhythm and rhyme, containing an exoticism inherit…
Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal is published
The East India Company (EIC), more commonly known as the British East India Company (BEIC), was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and diss…
The East India Company disbands the 34th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry whose sepoy Mangal Pandey had earlier revolt
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power, including military …
Indian Rebellion of 1857: Indian rebels seize Delhi from the British