Year 1850 in History - Important Historical Events of the year 1850

The year 1850 has a special significance of its own in India and world history. Let us know some such important events of the year 1850 such as: born famous people, death of famous people, war treaty, independence of a country, invention of new technology, change of power, important national and international day etc., knowing which your general Knowledge will increase.

Event__Date	Incident/Event
17 July	The Harvard Observatory took the first photograph of the star.
09 September	California became the 31st state of the US.
28 September	The punishment for whipping in the US Navy was abolished.
31 January	The largest mass movement started in China under the name Tae Pingha. Tae Pingha is a Chinese word which means public determination.
22 January	Alta California is a daily paper first published in Calif.
28 February	The University of Utah opened in Salt Lake City Utah.
19 March	American Express was founded by Henry Wells & William Fargo.
01 April	SF County Government was established.
01 May	John Geary became the first mayor of San Francisco.
04 June	Petrochemical self-deodorizing fertilizer was produced in England.
14 July	The first public display of freezer made ice.
23 August	The first American National Women's Rights Conference was held in Worcester, Massachusetts.
09 September	California was accepted as the thirty-first state of the Union.
12 October	The first women's medical school, the Women's Medical College of Pens) was opened.
06 November	Yerba, Buena, and Angel Islands (SF Bay) were reserved for military use.
28 December	Rangoon and Burma were destroyed by fire.
07 March	In support of the Compromise of 1850, United States Senator Daniel Webster gave his 'Seventh of March' speech, which was so unpopular among his constituency he was forced to resign.
27 March	San Diego, in what is now California, was the first European settlement to be incorporated as a city.
19 June	Lewis of the Netherlands married Crown Prince Carl of Sweden-Norway.
09 July	After Zachri Taylor's death, Millard Filmore became the President of the United States, the last member of the Whig Party took over the office.
29 August	The German composer Richard Wagner's romantic opera was performed under the direction of Franz Liste in Vemar, the first, with a bridal chorus in Lohengrain.
23 October	The first National Women's Rights Convention, presided over by Papulina Kelog Right Davis, was in the Worster of Massachusetts, USA.

Birth	Name/Category/Country
09 September	Bharatendu Harishchandra / Novelist / India
23 January	Ambica Charan Mazumdar / Politician / India

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