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passed by the 31st United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern interests in slavery and Northern Free-Soilers...

March 8, 1874) was the 13th president of the United States, serving from 1850 to 1853. He was the last president to be a member of the Whig Party, and...

Groep 1850 (also known as Group 1850) was a Dutch psychedelic rock band that was founded in 1964 in The Hague. The band, despite never achieving success...

William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in...

an extraordinarily popular concert tour of the United States beginning in 1850. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music from 1840. Lind became...

increase allowed California to go rapidly to statehood in the Compromise of 1850. The gold rush had severe effects on Native Californians and accelerated...

Tennessee, in January 1849 and caused many deaths in the city in 1849 and 1850.[citation needed] The Nashville cholera epidemic was part of the third cholera...

9, 1850) was an American military officer and politician who was the 12th president of the United States, serving from 1849 until his death in 1850. Taylor...

The 1850–51 United States House of Representatives elections were held on various dates in various states between August 5, 1850, and November 4, 1851...

The year 1850 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. May 25 – The young Hippopotamous Obaysch arrives at London Zoo...

warships deemed suitable, six merchant ships were purchased between 1848 and 1850 and soon converted to exploration ships: two steamships, HMS Pioneer and...

Events from the year 1850 in art. Controversial exhibition of Pre-Raphaelite paintings by Holman Hunt and Millais at the Royal Academy, Millais' Christ...

historical fiction by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850. Set in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years 1642 to 1649...

The year 1850 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. November 1 – Foundation stone laid for church of All Saints...

York Navy Yard in 1847. She was launched on 5 April 1850 and was commissioned on 24 December 1850, Captain John H. Aulick in command. After completing...

The 1850 United States census was the seventh decennial United States Census Conducted by the Census Office, it determined the resident population of the...

during the Second Party System. Fillmore had become president on July 9, 1850, upon the death of President Zachary Taylor. Members of the 32nd United States...

answer to the French. The pope did not return to Rome itself until April 1850, since the French were considered liberals all the same, and the pope would...

Struggles in France, 1848 to 1850 was a set of articles written by Karl Marx for the newspaper Neue Rheinische Zeitung in 1850. The works were collated and...

The Louisiana State Museum's 1850 House is an antebellum row house furnished to represent life in mid-nineteenth-century New Orleans. It is located at...

SS Pacific was a wooden sidewheel steamer built in 1850 most notable for its sinking in 1875 as a result of a collision southwest of Cape Flattery, Washington...

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1850 to Wales and its people. Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of...

Events from the year 1850 in Ireland. Ongoing – Great Famine subsides. 31 March – the paddle steamer RMS Royal Adelaide (1838), bound from Cork to London...

Entomology, the study of insects, progressed between 1800 and 1850, with the publication of important texts, definition of new orders such as Aphaniptera...

Events in the year 1850 in Iceland. Monarch: Frederick VII of Denmark Prime Minister of Denmark: Adam Wilhelm Moltke Governor of Iceland: Jørgen Ditlev...

1850 Edmond de Sélys Longchamps Revue des odonates ou Libellules d'Europe. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liége 6:1–408. Victor Ivanovitsch...

NGC 1850 is a double cluster and a super star cluster in the Dorado constellation, located in the northwest part of the bar of the Large Magellanic Cloud...

article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1850. January – The collected works of Edgar Allan Poe (died 1849) begin posthumous...