Explore 193 historical events from 1850–1859.
Anna Laurens Dawes was an American author and anti-suffragist. She was the daughter of Henry Laurens Dawes, a Republican United States Senator and Representative of Massachusetts.
Anna Laurens Dawes, American author and anti-suffragist (died 1938)
James Herbert Budd was an American lawyer and politician who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for California's 2nd district from 1883 to 1885 and as the 19th…
James Budd, American lawyer and politician, 19th Governor of California (died 1908)
Simon Kahquados, born Kakanisaiga, was a leader of the Potawatomi people in Wisconsin, United States, and played a pivotal role in creating the federally recognized Forest County P…
Simon Kahquados, Potawatomi political activist (died 1930)
Emile Berliner was a German-American inventor and businessman who invented the lateral-cut flat disc record, also known as a "gramophone record," used with a gramophone. He founded…
Emile Berliner, German-American inventor, invented the Gramophone record (died 1929)
Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois was a French statesman. His ideas influenced the Radical Party regarding a wide range of issues.
Léon Bourgeois, French police officer and politician, 64th Prime Minister of France, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1925)
The Congress of the Republic of Colombia is the name given to Colombia's bicameral national legislature.
The Congress of Colombia passed a law abolishing slavery in the country, to take effect at the beginning of the new year
Mordecai Manuel Noah was an American sheriff, playwright, diplomat, journalist, and utopian. He was born in a family of mixed Ashkenazi and Portuguese Sephardic ancestry and was th…
Mordecai Manuel Noah, American journalist and diplomat (born 1755)
Sojourner Truth was an American abolitionist and activist for African-American civil rights, women's rights, and alcohol temperance. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New …
Sojourner Truth (pictured) delivered her "Ain't I a Woman?" speech at the Woman's Rights Convention in Akron
The Arana–Southern Treaty or Convention of Settlement, formally known as the Convention for the perfect restoration of friendly relations between the Argentine Confederation and He…
The Arana–Southern Treaty is ratified, ending "the existing differences" between Great Britain and Argentina
Daniel Chester French was an American sculptor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His works include The Minute Man, an 1874 statue in Concord, Massachusetts, and his 1920 m…
Daniel Chester French, American sculptor, designed the Lincoln statue (died 1931)
Luise Adolpha Le Beau was a German composer of classical music. She studied with noted musicians Clara Schumann and Franz Lachner, but her primary instructor was Josef Gabriel Rhei…
Luise Adolpha Le Beau, German composer and educator (died 1927)
Hans Hartwig von Beseler was a German colonel general.
Hans Hartwig von Beseler, German general and politician (died 1921)
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, was the seventh child and third son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. He served a…
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (died 1942)
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)
Edward Weston was an English-born American chemist and engineer noted for his achievements in electroplating and his development of the electrochemical cell, named the Weston cell,…
Edward Weston, English-American chemist (died 1936)
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)
Sir Frederick William Holder was an Australian politician who served as the first speaker of the Australian House of Representatives from 1901 to 1909. A member of the Free Trade P…
Frederick Holder, Australian politician, 19th Premier of South Australia (died 1909)
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)
Anna Maria "Marie" Tussaud, commonly known as Madame Tussaud, was a French artist known for her wax sculptures and Madame Tussauds, the wax museum she founded in London.
Marie Tussaud, French-English sculptor, founded the Madame Tussauds Wax Museum (born 1761)
Friedrich Robert Faehlmann (Fählmann) was an Estonian writer, medical doctor and philologist. He was a co-founder of the Learned Estonian Society and its chairman (1843-1850).
Friedrich Robert Faehlmann, Estonian philologist and physician (born 1798)
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)
William Wordsworth was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ball…
William Wordsworth, English poet and author (born 1770)
John Joel Glanton was an early settler of Arkansas Territory. He was also a Texas Ranger and a soldier in the Mexican–American War and the leader of a notorious gang of scalp-hunte…
John Joel Glanton, American outlaw, soldier, mercenary, and Texas ranger (born ~1819)
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac was a French chemist and physicist. He is known mostly for his discovery that water is made of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen by volume, for two law…
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist and physicist (born 1778)