Major Events
- Jan 29 Senator Henry Clay drafts the Compromise of 1850 to defuse tensions between slave states and free states over territories won during the Mexican–American War
- Jul 14 1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration by Florida physician John Gorrie
- Aug 23 1st US National Women's Rights Convention convenes in Worcester, Massachusetts
- Oct 26 Robert McClure sights the fabled Northwest Passage for the first time (from Banks Island towards Melville Island)
- More 1850 Events
Edward Smith
Samuel Gompers
Horatio Kitchener
Guy de Maupassant
Robert Louis Stevenson
Victoriano HuertaMore People Born in 1850
John C. Calhoun
Madame Tussaud
William Wordsworth
Robert Peel
Zachary Taylor
José de San MartínMore 1850 Deaths
Articles About 1850
Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay's handwritten draft of one of the bills that formed the Compromise of 1850January 29
Madame Tussaud's Bloody Background
Madame Tussaud, famous for her waxworks, perfected her art in the grimmest of 'schools' – the French Revolution - where she made models of guillotined heads.April 16
Famous Weddings in 1850
- Mar 14 French writer and playwright Honoré de Balzac marries Ewelina Hańska in Berdyczów, Ukraine
- May 1 Soldier William Tecumseh Sherman (30) weds Eleanor Boyle Ewing in Washington, D.C.
- Jun 13 Poet Alfred Tennyson (40) weds Emily Sellwood (36)
More Weddings in 1850
Charles Dickens
Giuseppe Verdi
John Russell
