Explore 418 historical events from 1850–1859.
Pedro José Domingo de la Calzada Manuel María Lascuráin Paredes was a Mexican politician and lawyer who served as the 38th president of Mexico for 45 minutes on 19 February 1913, t…
Pedro Lascuráin, Mexican politician (died 1952)
Tom O'Rourke was born in Boston and became a boxing manager in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Tom O'Rourke, American boxer and manager (died 1938)
Lyman Frank Baum was an American author best known for his children's fantasy books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part of a series. In addition to the 14 Oz books, Baum…
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Matthias Zurbriggen (15 May 1856 in Saas-Fee – 21 June 1917 in Geneva) was a Swiss mountaineer. He climbed throughout the Alps, the Andes, the Himalayas and New Zealand.
Matthias Zurbriggen, Swiss mountaineer (died 1917)
Henri-Edmond Cross, born Henri-Edmond-Joseph Delacroix, was a French painter and printmaker. He is most acclaimed as a master of Neo-Impressionism and he played an important role i…
Henri-Edmond Cross, French Neo-Impressionist painter (died 1910)
José Pablo Torcuato Batlle y Ordóñez, nicknamed Don Pepe, was a prominent Uruguayan politician who served two terms as President of Uruguay for the Colorado Party. The son of a for…
José Batlle y Ordóñez, Uruguayan journalist and politician, President of Uruguay (died 1929)
Louis Félix Marie François Franchet d'Espèrey was a French general during World War I. In September 1914, as the new commander of the French 5th Army, he played a notable role in o…
Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, Algerian-French general (died 1942)
Andrey Andreyevich Markov was a Russian mathematician celebrated for his pioneering work in stochastic processes. He extended foundational results—such as the law of large numbers …
Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician and theorist (died 1922)
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure fiction romances set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the lost world literary genre. He was al…
Henry Rider Haggard, English novelist (died 1925)
Henry Chapman Mercer was an American archeologist, artifact collector and tile-maker, who was the designer of three distinctive poured concrete structures: Fonthill, his home; the …
Henry Chapman Mercer, American archaeologist and author (died 1930)
George Howard Earle Jr. was an American lawyer and businessman from Philadelphia who worked as a receiver and rescued multiple businesses from financial hardship. He was a politica…
George Howard Earle, Jr., American lawyer and businessman (died 1928)
John Verran was an Australian politician and trade unionist. He served as premier of South Australia from 1910 to 1912, the second member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) to hol…
John Verran, English-Australian politician, 26th Premier of South Australia (died 1932)
Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American engineer, futurist, and inventor. He is known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply syst…
Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American electrical and mechanical engineer (died 1943)
Octave Hamelin was a French philosopher.
Octave Hamelin, French philosopher (died 1907)
Bal Gangadhar Tilak, was an Indian nationalist and self-rule activist in the Indian independence movement. He was one third of the Lal Bal Pal triumvirate. The honorific "Lokmanya"…
Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian lawyer and journalist (died 1920)
Charles Émile Picard was a French mathematician. He was elected the fifteenth member to occupy seat 1 of the Académie française in 1924.
Émile Picard, French mathematician and academic (died 1941)
John Wilbur was a prominent American Quaker minister and religious thinker who was at the forefront of a controversy that led to "the second split" in the Religious Society of Fr…
John Wilbur, American minister and theologian (born 1774)
James Gates Percival was an American poet, surgeon, and geologist.
James Gates Percival, American poet, surgeon and geologist (born 1795)
Adolphe Charles Adam was a French composer, teacher and music critic. A prolific composer for the theatre, he is best known today for his ballets Giselle (1841) and Le corsaire (18…
Adolphe Adam, French composer and critic (born 1803)
Louis-Étienne Saint-Denis was a member of the Mamelukes of the Imperial Guard, leading him to be known in his lifetime as "Mamelouk Ali". He was most notable as a faithful servant …
Louis-Étienne Saint-Denis, Arab-French servant to Napoleon I (born 1788)
George Bernard Shaw, known at his insistence as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and poli…
George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1950)
Jacques Philippe Marie Binet was a French mathematician, physicist and astronomer born in Rennes; he died in Paris, France, in 1856. He made significant contributions to number the…
Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (born 1786)
Ivan Vasilyevich Kireyevsky was a Russian literary critic and philosopher who, together with Aleksey Khomyakov, is credited as a co-founder of the Slavophile movement.
Ivan Kireyevsky, Russian philosopher and critic (born 1806)
Johann Caspar Schmidt, known by the pen name Max Stirner, was a German philosopher, dealing mainly with the Hegelian notion of social alienation and self-consciousness. Stirner is …
Max Stirner, German philosopher and author (born 1806)