Notable Historical Events - 1850
1850 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 5 |
California Exchange opens |
Jan 18 |
British blockade Piraeus, Greece to enforce mercantile claims |
Jan 20 |
Investigator, 1st ship to effect northwest passage, leaves England |
Jan 22 |
Alta California becomes a daily paper, 1st such in Calif |
Jan 26 |
1st German language daily newspaper in US published, NYC |
Jan 29 |
Henry Clay introduces a comprise bill on slavery to US Senate |
Feb 5 |
Adding machine employing depressible keys patented, New Paltz, NY |
Feb 12 |
Original Washington's Farewell Address manuscript sells for $2,300 |
Feb 18 |
California Legislature creates nine Bay Area counties |
Feb 28 |
The University of Utah opens in Salt Lake City, Utah. |
Mar 5 |
The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened. |
Mar 7 |
Daniel Webster endorses Compromise of 1850 |
Mar 11 |
Woman's Medical College of Penn (1st female medical school) |
Mar 12 |
1st US $20 gold piece issued |
Mar 16 |
Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" published |
Mar 18 |
Henry Wells & William Fargo forms American Express in Buffalo |
Mar 29 |
SS Royal Adelaide sinks in storm; 200 die |
Mar 31 |
US population hits 23,191,876 (Black population: 3,638,808 (15.7%)) |
Apr 1 |
SF County government established |
Apr 4 |
City of Los Angeles incorporated |
Apr 15 |
City of San Francisco incorporated |
Apr 25 |
Paul Julius Reuter, use 40 pigeons to carry stock market prices |
May 1 |
John Geary becomes 1st SF mayor |
May 11 |
Work starts on 1st brick building in San Francisco |
May 27 |
Mormon Temple in Nauvoo, Illinois, destroyed by tornado |
Jun 4 |
Empire Engine Company No 1 organized |
Jun 4 |
Self-deodorizing fertilizer patented in England |
Jun 6 |
Levi Strauss make his 1st pair of blue jeans |
Jun 14 |
Fire destroys part of San Francisco |
Jun 17 |
Paddle-wheeler "G P Griffith" burns off Mentor Ohio (206 die) |
Jun 29 |
British ex-Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel falls off his horse; de died three days later |
Jun 29 |
Autocephaly Officially Granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to The Church of Greece. |
Jul 1 |
At least 626 ships lie at anchor around SF Bay |
Jul 2 |
Benjamin Lane patents gas mask with a breathing apparatus |
Jul 7 |
Scottish explorer Edward Eyre reaches Albany, W-Australia |
Jul 10 |
Millard Fillmore sworn in as president of US (replacing Taylor) |
Jul 12 |
Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts establishment of Provincial States |
Jul 14 |
1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration |
Jul 15 |
John Wisden bowls all 10 South batsmen, North v South at Lord's |
Jul 17 |
Harvard Observatory takes 1st photograph of a star (Vega) |
Jul 19 |
Airship Elizabeth leaves in storm for Fire Island, crashes (42 die) |
Jul 23 |
17th Postmaster General: Nathan K Hall of NY takes office |
Jul 25 |
Gold discovered in Oregon (Rogue River) |
Aug 23 |
1st national women's rights convention convenes in Worcester Mass |
Aug 28 |
Richard Wagner's opera "Lohengrin" premieres at Weimar, Germany |
Aug 30 |
Honolulu, Hawaii, becomes a city |
Aug 31 |
California pioneers organized at Montgomery & Clay Streets |
Sep 9 |
Territories of New Mexico & Utah created |
Sep 9 |
California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state |
Sep 11 |
"Swedish Nightingale" Jenny Lind gives 1st US concert |
Sep 17 |
Great fire in San Francisco |
Sep 18 |
Congress passes Fugitive Slave Law as part of Compromise of 1850 |
Sep 20 |
Slave trade abolished in DC, but slavery allowed to continue |
Sep 24 |
Papal Bull issued, establishes Roman Catholic hierarchy in England |
Sep 28 |
US Navy abolishes flogging as punishment |
Oct 12 |
First women's medical school (Women's Medical College of Penns), opens |
Oct 17 |
Knickerbocker Engine Co Number 5 organized |
Nov 6 |
1st Hawaiian fire engine |
Nov 6 |
Yerba Buena & Angel Islands (SF Bay) reserved for military use |
Nov 19 |
Alfred Tennyson becomes British Poet Laureate, succeeding William Wordsworth |
Nov 29 |
The treaty, Punctation of Olmütz, signed in Olomouc means diplomatic capitulation of Prussia to Austrian Empire, which took over the leadership of German Confederation. |
Dec 16 |
Ships the Charlotte-Jane and the Randolph bring the first of the Canterbury Pilgrims to Lyttelton, New Zealand |
Dec 20 |
Hawaiian post office established |
Dec 27 |
Hawaiian Fire Dept established |
Dec 28 |
Rangoon Burma, destroyed by fire |
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