Explore 785 historical events from 1850–1859.
Helen Churchill Candee was an American author, journalist, interior decorator, feminist, and geographer. She is best remembered as a survivor of the sinking of RMS Titanic in 1912,…
Helen Churchill Candee, American journalist and author (died 1949)
Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, also known as Michael Pupin, was a Serbian-American electrical engineer, physicist and inventor.
Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist (died 1935)
Maurice Brazil Prendergast was a Newfoundlander-American artist who painted in oil and watercolor, and created monotypes. His delicate landscapes and scenes of modern life, charact…
Maurice Prendergast, American painter and academic (died 1924)
John Lawrence Sullivan was an American professional boxer. Nicknamed the "Boston Strong Boy" and known as John L. among his admirers, he is recognized as the first heavyweight cham…
John L. Sullivan, American boxer, actor, and journalist (died 1918)
George Albert Boulenger was a Belgian-British zoologist who described and gave scientific names to over 2,000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles, and amphibians. Boulenger …
George Albert Boulenger, Belgian-English zoologist and botanist (died 1937)
John Elliot Burns was an English trade unionist and politician, particularly associated with London politics and Battersea. He was a socialist and then a Liberal Member of Parliame…
John Burns, English union leader and politician, President of the Board of Trade (died 1943)
Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg was the last German Empress and Queen of Prussia by marriage to Wilhelm II, German Emperor.
Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (died 1921)
Sir Neil Elliott Lewis, Australian politician, was Premier of Tasmania on three occasions. He was also a member of the first Australian federal ministry, led by Edmund Barton.
Elliott Lewis, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Tasmania (died 1935)
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)
Take or Tache Ionescu was a Romanian centrist politician, journalist, lawyer and diplomat, who also enjoyed reputation as a short story author. Starting his political career as a r…
Take Ionescu, Romanian politician, diplomat, journalist and lawyer (died 1922)
Viscount Saitō Makoto was a Japanese admiral and politician who was prime minister of Japan from 1932 to 1934. Upon distinguishing himself during his command of two cruisers in th…
Saitō Makoto, Japanese admiral and politician, 30th Prime Minister of Japan (died 1936)
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was the 26th president of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909. Previously serving for six months as vice president under William McKinley, Roosevelt…
Theodore Roosevelt, American colonel and politician, 26th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (died…
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)
Utagawa Hiroshige or Andō Hiroshige , born Andō Tokutarō, was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition.
Hiroshige, Japanese painter (born 1797)
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
George Mary Searle was an American astronomer and Catholic priest.
George Mary Searle discovered the asteroid 55 Pandora (pictured) from the Dudley Observatory near Albany, New York; it…