1850

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1820s  1830s  1840s  – 1850s –  1860s  1870s  1880s
Years:	1847 1848 1849 – 1850 – 1851 1852 1853

1850 Media

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  The Royal Commission for the Great Exhibition is established in the U.K.

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  Photographie der russischen Mathematikerin Sofja Wassiljewna Kowalewskaja. Das Foto entstand kurz nach 1880 und stammt vermutlich aus der Sammlung des Mittag-Leffler-Instituts der Schwedischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Stockholm.*Siehe auch: Cordula

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  Author Mary Noailles Murfree, who wrote under the pen name Charles Egbert Craddock.

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  Portrait of Mihai Eminescu - photograph taken by Jan Tomas (1841-1912) in Prague, 1869

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  Photograph of Fanny Davenport (1850–1898)

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  German chemist Hans von Pechmann (1850 - 1902)

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  Ferdinand_Braun

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  Robert Louis Stevenson

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  Qing Dynasty Anonymous "Daoguang Emperor Xuanzong's Court Dress"

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1850 (MDCCCL) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1850th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 850th year of the 2nd millennium, the 50th year of the 19th century, and the 1st year of the 1850s decade. As of the start of 1850, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

• The speed of light in water was observed to be slower than that in air.

Books

• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Births

• January 21 – Paul Vinzenz Busch, ringmaster (d. 1927)
• January 27 – Samuel Gompers, English-born labor leader (d. 1924)
• January 27 – Edward J. Smith, Captain of the Titanic (d. 1912)
• May 1 – Prince Arthur of the United Kingdom (d. 1942)
• May 8 – Ross Barnes, baseball player (d. 1915)
• May 12 – Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. statesman (d. 1924)
• May 21 – Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (d. 1914)
• July 12 – Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist (d. 1912)
• September 2 – Albert Spalding, baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer (d. 1915)
• November 13 – Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish writer (d. 1894)
• December 9 – Emma Abbott, American opera singer (d. 1891)
• December 21 – Zdenek Fibich, Czech composer (d. 1900)

Deaths

• July 2 – Robert Peel
• July 9 - Zachary Taylor, 65, twelfth President of the United States, cholera (b. 1784)