Page 2: Historical Events In 1850

Feb 18   Calif Legislature creates 9 Bay Area counties on this day in history.   

Feb 18   California Legislature creates 9 Bay Area counties on this day in history.   

Feb 18   George Henschel, composer in the year 1850.   

Feb 22   In the year 1850 isaac L Rice, Germany, (namesake of Columbia Univ's Rice stadium)   

Feb 27   In the year 1850 henry Edwards Huntington, US, railroad exec   

Feb 28   Hermann Schell, German theologist/philosopher (Gott und Geist) in the year 1850.   

Feb 28   The University of Utah opens in Salt Lake City, Utah in the year 1850.   

Mar 05   On this day in history daniel Brink Towner, composer   

Mar 05   On this day in history the Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened.   

Mar 07   On this day in history daniel Webster endorses Compromise of 1850   

Mar 07   Tomés G Masaryk, Czechoslovakia, Father/Pres of Czech (1918-35) on this day in history.   

Mar 09   Alexandre Luigini, composer on this day in history.   

Mar 10   Mary Mills Patrick, US, 1st pres of Istanbul Woman's College in the year 1850.   

Mar 11   Richard Blanshard arrives at Fort Victoria; reads proclamation establishing the new colony of Vancouver Island, with himself as the first Governor in the year 1850.   

Mar 11   On this day in history woman's Medical College of Penn (1st female medical school)   

Mar 11   Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania (1st female medical school) in the year 1850.   

Mar 12   1st US $20 gold piece issued in the year 1850.   

Mar 12   In the year 1850 uS $20 gold piece first issued   

Mar 13   In the year 1850 emilio Serrano y Ruiz, composer   

Mar 16   On this day in history nathaniel Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" published   

Mar 18   American Express company formed in Buffalo, New York on this day in history.   

Mar 18   Henry Wells & William Fargo forms American Express in Buffalo in the year 1850.   

Mar 19   Adalbert Gyrowetz, composer, dies at 87 on this day in history.   

Mar 21   In the year 1850 miguel Pedrorena, American settler   

Mar 26   On this day in history edward Bellamy, author (Looking Backward)   

Mar 27   Wilhelm Bear, German banker/astronomer (Moon Map), dies at 53 in the year 1850.   

Mar 29   Ireland's SS Royal Adelaide sinks in storm; 200 die on this day in history.   

Mar 30   On this day in history sS Theresa Jane, the storm on this night was particularly bad and the Theresa Jane was one of a number of ships lost. She went onto the rocks of Mew Island, Belfast Lough during her sailing from Liverpool to Mauritius. Seven of the crew of fifteen lost their lives.   

Mar 31   In the year 1850 john Calhoun, dies at 68   

Mar 31   In the year 1850 uS population hits 23,191,876 (Black population 3,638,808 (15.7%))   

Mar 31   US population hits 23,191,876 (Black population: 3,638,808 (15.7%)) in the year 1850.   

Apr 01   SF County Govt established on this day in history.   

Apr 03   On this day in history vaclav Jan Krtitel Tomasek, organist/pianist/composer, dies at 75   

Apr 04   City of Los Angeles incorporated on this day in history.   

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Jan 05   In the year 1850 birth of theodoor Verstraete, Flemish painter/etcher   

Jan 06   On this day in history birth of eduard "Ede" Bernstein, German marxist (New Era)   

Jan 06   In the year 1850 birth of franz Xaver Scharwenka, German pianist/composer (Mataswintha)   

Jan 10   On this day in history birth of john Wellborn Root, American architect (d. 1891)   

Jan 11   J C Arthur, Lowville NY, botanist (studied rusts) was born in the year 1850.   

Jan 11   In the year 1850 birth of philipp la Renotiere von Ferrary, famous philatelist   

Jan 13   Leon Francis Victor Caron, composer was born in the year 1850.   

Jan 14   On this day in history birth of jean de Reszke, [Jan Mieczyslaw], Polish tenor   

Jan 01   Raphael G Kiesewetter, Austria musicologist, dies at 76 in the year 1850.   

Jan 14   On this day in history anthony van Hoboken, Rotterdam merchant/ship owner, dies at 93   

Jan 20   In the year 1850 death of adam Oehlenschläger, Danish poet (b. 1779)   

Jan 22   Vincenzo Pallotti, Italian saint, dies at 54 on this day in history.   

Jan 26   Francis Jeffrey, Baron Jeffrey, judge/literary critic, dies on this day in history.   

Jan 27   On this day in history j Gottfried Schadow, German sculptor/cartoonist/writer, dies at 85   

Feb 01   In the year 1850 death of edward Baker Lincoln, son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln   

Feb 25   On this day in history death of daoguang, Emperor of China (b. 1782)