Page 5: Historical Events In 1850

Aug 05   Australia Government Act grants representative governments to South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria, which is separated from New South Wales.   

Aug 14   Earnest YY [Bachigaloupi] Tourniaire, actor (Kloris and Roses)   

Aug 17   Jose de San Martin, liberator of Chile, dies   

Aug 17   Jose Francisco de San Martin, South American revolutionary hero, dies   

Aug 18   H de Balzac, writer, dies at 51.   

Aug 22   Nikolaus Lenau, writer, dies at 48   

Aug 23   1st national women's rights convention convenes in Worcester Mass   

Aug 23   In the Lancaster Sound NWT, HMS Assistance and HMS Intrepid find inaugural trace of lost Franklin expedition in Lancaster Sound, at Cape Riley and Beechey Island.   

Aug 26   Charles Richet, French physiologist (anaphylaxis-Nobel 1913)   

Aug 28   Richard Wagner's opera "Lohengrin" premieres at Weimar Germany.   

Aug 30   Honolulu, Hawaii is recorded as becoming a city   

Aug 31   Calif pioneers organized at Montgomery and Clay Streets.   

Sep 02   Albert Spaulding, baseball player/founded Spaulding sports company   

Sep 04   Luigi Cadorna, Italian fieldmarshal/earl (WW I-Caporetto)   

Sep 06   Louis F H "Louis" Apol, painter/etcher/literary.   

Sep 09   California is recorded as becoming 31st state.   

Sep 09   California is recorded as becoming the 31st state admitted to the US   

Sep 09   California is recorded as becoming the 31st state of the United States   

Sep 09   Harishchandra, India, poet/dramatist/father of modern Hindi.   

Sep 09   New Mexico and Utah become US territories   

Sep 09   Territories of New Mexico and Utah created   

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   Flogging in US Navy and on merchant vessels abolished   

Sep 28   US Navy abolishes flogging as punishment.   

Oct 02   Sarah Biffin/Beffin, limbless miniature painter, dies   

Oct 04   John W McGraw, (Gov-R-Wash) (1893-97)   

Oct 11   Louisa Maria, queen of Belgium (1832-50)/wife of Leopold I, dies at 38   

Oct 12   1st women's medical school (Women's Medical College of Penns), opens   

Oct 17   James Young obtains a patent for the extraction of paraffin from shale, the beginning of the paraffin industry in West Lothian.   

Oct 17   Knickerbocker Engine Co Number 5 organized   

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Jan 05   Theodoor verstraete: Flemish painter/etcher   

Jan 06   Eduard "ede" bernstein: German marxist (new era)   

Jan 06   Franz xaver scharwenka: German pianist/composer (mataswintha)   

Jan 10   John wellborn root: American architect    

Jan 11   J c arthur: Lowville ny, botanist (studied rusts)   

Jan 11   Philipp la renotiere von ferrary: Famous philatelist   

Jan 13   Leon francis victor caron: Composer   

Jan 14   Jean de reszke: [jan mieczyslaw], polish tenor   

Jan 01   Raphael g kiesewetter: Austria musicologist,    

Jan 14   Anthony van hoboken: Rotterdam merchant/ship owner,   

Jan 20   Adam oehlenschläger: Danish poet (b. 1779)   

Jan 22   Vincenzo pallotti: Italian saint,    

Jan 26   Francis jeffrey: Baron jeffrey, judge/literary critic,    

Jan 27   J gottfried schadow: German sculptor/cartoonist/writer,    

Feb 01   Edward baker lincoln: Son of u.s. president abraham lincoln   

Feb 25   Daoguang: Emperor of china (b. 1782)