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Special Events for the Year 1850 - back to GREGSITE

Born :09/17/1850Ab¡lio Manuel Guerra Junqueiro, Portuguese poet (Simple Ones)
Born :09/02/1850Albert Spaulding, baseball player/founded Spaulding sports company
Born :01/17/1850Alexander Taneyev, St Petersburg Russia, composer
Born :02/12/1850Amaat Vyncke, Flemish missionary (Flemish Wind)
Born :05/16/1850Arthur Henry Mann, organist/composer
Born :02/02/1850Carel V Gerritsen, free thinker
Born :08/26/1850Charles Richet, French physiologist (anaphylaxis-Nobel 1913)
Born :05/26/1850Christine [Elizabeth C] Poolman, actress (Stupid force)
Born :04/20/1850Daniel Chester French/American sculptor (Minute Man)
Born :03/26/1850Edward Bellamy, author (Looking Backward)
Born :04/19/1850Edward John Gregory, painter/engraver
Born :05/24/1850Ernest Albert Waterlow, water-color painter
Born :09/02/1850Eugene Field, author/journalist (Little Boy Blue)
Born :07/15/1850Francesca Xavier Cabrini, [Mother Cabrini], 1st US saint
Born :08/05/1850Guy de Maupassant, France, author (Boule de Suif)
Born :09/09/1850Harishchandra, India, poet/dramatist/father of modern Hindi
Born :11/26/1850Henricus Van de Wetering, archbishop of Utrecht (1895-1929)
Born :02/27/1850Henry Edwards Huntington, US, railroad exec
Born :04/16/1850Herbert Baxter Adams, US, historian (American Historical Assn)
Born :07/13/1850Hipolito Irigoyen, president Argentina (1916-22, 1928-30)
Born :06/24/1850Horatio Herbert Kitchener, England, original Order of Merit member
Born :02/22/1850Isaac L Rice, Germany, (namesake of Columbia Univ's Rice stadium)
Born :06/27/1850Ivan Vazov, Bulgaria, poet/novelist/playwright (Under the Yoke)
Born :01/11/1850J C Arthur, Lowville NY, botanist (studied rusts)
Born :04/15/1850John Munroe Longyear, US, capitalist/bank president
Born :10/04/1850John W McGraw, (Gov-R-Wash) (1893-97)
Born :06/06/1850Karl F Braun, Germany, co-developed wireless telegraphy (Nobel 1909)
Born :06/27/1850Lafcadio Hearn, US, journalist/author (Chita)
Born :01/29/1850Lawrence Hargrave, inventor (box kite)
Born :11/09/1850Lewis Lewin, Germany, toxicologist/father of psychopharmacologist
Born :03/10/1850Mary Mills Patrick, US, 1st pres of Instanbul Woman's College
Born :02/16/1850Octave Mirbeau, France, writer (Journal of a Lady's Maid)
Born :05/18/1850Oliver Heaviside, physicist predicted existance of ionosphere
Born :08/03/1850Paul A Daum, writer/founder/editor (Batavian Newspaper)
Born :01/11/1850Philipp la Renotiere von Ferrary, famous philatelist
Born :01/14/1850Pierre Loti, [Julien Viaud], French sea officer/writer (Pˆcheur)
Born :11/13/1850Robert Louis Stevenson, Scotland, author (Treasure Island)
Born :01/27/1850Samuel Gompers, 1st president (American Federation of Labor)
Born :01/15/1850Sofya Kovalevskaya, Russia, mathematician (or 1919)
Born :04/19/1850Theo Mann, actress (Pink Bernd, Hedda Gabler
Born :05/10/1850Thomas Johnstone Lipton, England, tea magnate (Lipton Tea)
Born :03/07/1850Tom s G Masaryk, Czechoslovakia, Father/Pres of Czech (1918-35)
Born :04/08/1850William Henry Welch, US, pathologist, founded John Hopkins




Died :07/09/1850B b, [Bah '¡ prophet] executed in Tabriz, Iran; Rahmat 16, 7
Died :11/05/1850Ferdinand KJ, archduke of Austria, dies at 69
Died :08/18/1850Honor‚ de Balzac, French writer (Le pre Goriot), dies at 51
Died :05/24/1850Jane Porter, novelist (Scottish Chiefs), dies at 74
Died :03/31/1850John Calhoun, dies at 68
Died :08/17/1850Jos‚ Francisco de San Martin, South American revolutionary hero, dies
Died :05/09/1850Louis-Joseph Gay-Lussac, chemist/physicist, dies
Died :04/16/1850Marie [Gresholtz] Tussaud, maker of wax figures, dies
Died :10/02/1850Sarah Biffin/Beffin, limbless miniature painter, dies
Died :03/27/1850Wilhelm Bear, German banker/astronomer (Moon Map), dies at 53
Died :04/07/1850William Lisle Bowles, English poet (14 Sonnets), dies
Died :04/09/1850William Prout, physician/chemist, dies
Died :04/23/1850William Wordsworth, poet, dies at 80
Died :07/09/1850Zachary Taylor, 12th pres (1849-50), dies in White House at 65
Interest:01/22/1850[RC] Commemoration of St Vincent Pallotti, Italian priest, founder




Special :09/11/1850"Swedish Nightingale" Jenny Lind gives 1st US concert
Special :11/02/185013th asteroid, Egeria, is discovered
Special :01/26/18501st German-language daily newspaper in US published, NYC
Special :11/06/18501st Hawaiian fire engine
Special :03/12/18501st US $20 gold piece issued
Special :07/14/18501st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration
Special :05/11/1850A De Gasparis discovers asteroid #11 Parthenope
Special :11/02/1850A De Gasparis discovers asteroid #13 Egeria
Special :02/05/1850Adding machine employing depressible keys patented, New Paltz, NY
Special :01/22/1850Alta California becomes a daily paper, 1st such in Calif
Special :03/18/1850American Express founded
Special :07/01/1850At least 626 ships lie at anchor around SF Bay
Special :01/18/1850British blockade Pir‘us, Greece to enforce mercantile claims
Special :01/05/1850Calif Exchange opens
Special :02/18/1850Calif Legislature creates 9 Bay Area counties
Special :08/31/1850Calif pioneers organized at Montgomery & Clay Streets
Special :09/09/1850California becomes 31st state
Special :04/04/1850City of Los Angeles incorporated
Special :04/15/1850City of San Francisco incorporated
Special :09/18/1850Congress passes Fugitive Slave Law as part of Compromise of 1850
Special :03/07/1850Daniel Webster endorses Compromise of 1850
Special :06/04/1850Empire Engine Company No 1 organized
Special :06/14/1850Fire destroys part of SF
Special :09/28/1850Flogging in US Navy & on merchant vessels abolished
Special :07/25/1850Gold discovered in Oregon (Rogue River)
Special :07/17/1850Harvard Observatory takes 1st photograph of a star (Vega)
Special :12/27/1850Hawaiian Fire Dept established
Special :12/20/1850Hawaiian post office established
Special :08/30/1850Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city
Special :01/20/1850Investigator, 1st ship to effect northwest passage, leaves England
Special :03/29/1850Ireland's SS Royal Adelaide sinks in storm; 200 die
Special :09/13/1850J R Hind discovers asteroid #12 Victoria
Special :05/01/1850John Geary becomes 1st SF mayor
Special :10/17/1850Knickerbocker Engine Co Number 5 organized
Special :06/10/1850Millard Fillmore sworn-in as president of US (replacing Taylor)
Special :05/27/1850Mormon Temple in Nauvoo Illinois destroyed by tornado
Special :08/28/1850Opera "Lohengrin" is produced (Weimar)
Special :02/12/1850Original Washington's Farewell Address manuscript sells for $2,300
Special :06/17/1850Paddle-wheeler "G P Griffith" burns off Mentor Ohio (206 die)
Special :09/24/1850Papal Bull issued, establishes Roman Catholic hierachy in England
Special :02/05/1850Push key adding machine patented
Special :12/28/1850Rangoon, Burma, destroyed by fire
Special :04/01/1850SF County Govt established
Special :06/04/1850Self deodorizing fertilizer patented in England
Special :09/20/1850Slave trade abolished in DC, but slavery allowed to continue
Special :09/09/1850Territories of New Mexico & Utah created
Special :09/28/1850US Navy abolishes flogging as punishment
Special :03/31/1850US Population is 23,191,876 (Black population: 3,638,808 (15.7%))
Special :07/10/1850VP Fillmore becomes pres following Zachary Taylor's death
Special :03/11/1850Woman's Medical College of Penn (1st female medical school)
Special :05/11/1850Work starts on 1st brick building in SF
Special :11/06/1850Yerba Buena & Angel Islands (SF Bay) reserved for military use

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