Important Historical Events of the year 1850, Year 1850 in History

List of 1850 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1850

What happened in the year 1850?

Date Event
January 29, 1850 Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress.
February 2, 1850 Brigham Young declares war on Timpanogos in the Battle at Fort Utah.
March 5, 1850 The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened.
March 7, 1850 Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.
May 15, 1850 The Arana–Southern Treaty is ratified, ending "the existing differences" between Great Britain and Argentina.
June 19, 1850 Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries Crown Prince Karl of Sweden–Norway.
June 29, 1850 Autocephaly officially granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to the Church of Greece.
July 9, 1850 U.S. President Zachary Taylor dies after eating raw fruit and iced milk; he is succeeded in office by Vice President Millard Fillmore.
July 9, 1850 Persian prophet Báb is executed in Tabriz, Persia.
July 10, 1850 U.S. President Millard Fillmore is sworn in, a day after becoming president upon Zachary Taylor's death.
July 17, 1850 Vega became the first star (other than the Sun) to be photographed.[3]
August 28, 1850 Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin premieres at the Staatskapelle Weimar.
September 9, 1850 The Compromise of 1850 transfers a third of Texas's claimed territory to federal control in return for the U.S. federal government assuming $10 million of Texas's pre-annexation debt.
September 9, 1850 California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.
September 18, 1850 The U.S. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
September 29, 1850 The papal bull Universalis Ecclesiae restores the Roman Catholic hierarchy in England and Wales.
October 17, 1850 Riots start, which lead to a massacre in Aleppo.
October 23, 1850 The first National Women's Rights Convention begins in Worcester, Massachusetts.
November 24, 1850 Danish troops defeat a Schleswig-Holstein force in the town of Lottorf, Schleswig-Holstein.
November 29, 1850 The treaty, Punctation of Olmütz, is signed in Olomouc. Prussia capitulates to Austria, which will take over the leadership of the German Confederation.
December 16, 1850 The Charlotte Jane and the Randolph bring the first of the Canterbury Pilgrims to Lyttelton, New Zealand.