Causes include controversy over admitting Missouri as a slave state in 1820, the acquisition of Texas as a slave state in 1845 and the status of slavery in western territories won as a result of the Mexican – American War and the resulting Compromise of 1850.

* 1788 – Adoniram Judson, American missionary ( d. 1850 )

* 1850 – Reginald Heber Roe, Australian academic and educator ( d. 1926 )

* 1802 – Nikolaus Lenau, Austrian poet ( d. 1850 )

The 1830 – 1850 period later became known as the era of Jacksonian democracy.

His father was a cultured man, and his mother was the sister of Raphael Georg Kiesewetter ( 1773 – 1850 ), the musical archaeologist and collector.

* 1850 – Marcelo H. del Pilar, Filipino writer, journalist, and revolutionary ( d. 1896 )

Albert Goodwill Spalding ( Byron, Illinois September 2, 1850 – September 9, 1915 in Point Loma, San Diego, California ) was a professional baseball player, manager and co-founder of A. G. Spalding sporting goods company.

* 1918 – Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1850 )

* John Pryor, 1846 – 1850

* 1770 – Georg Sverdrup, Norwegian philologist ( d. 1850 )

* 1850 – Luise Adolpha Le Beau, German composer ( d. 1927 )

* 1770 – William Wordsworth, English poet ( d. 1850 )

* 1850 – William Lisle Bowles, English poet and critic ( b. 1762 )

The estate was sold on 4 June 1883 to Sir Herbert Samuel Leon ( 1850 – 1926 ), a financier and Liberal MP.

* Frédéric Bastiat ( 1801 – 1850 ), classical-liberal author and political economist

The Christadelphian community in Britain effectively dates from Thomas's first lecturing tour ( May 1848 – October 1850 ).

** Leonard Darwin ( 1850 – 1943 ), soldier, politician, and activist

* 1850 – History of New Zealand: The Charlotte-Jane and the Randolph bring the first of the Canterbury Pilgrims to Lyttelton, New Zealand.

* 1778 – Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist ( d. 1850 )

* 1850 – William Sturgeon, English physicist and inventor ( b. 1783 )

* 1935 – Charles Richet, French physiologist, Nobel laureate ( b. 1850 )

* 1761 – Marie Tussaud, French creator of wax sculptures ( Madame Tussauds ) ( d. 1850 )

His first wife, Juliet Macpherson ( c. 1776 – 1850 ), was a daughter of James Macpherson ( 1736 – 1796 ), a probable translator of Ossian poems.

* 1850 – Leonard Darwin, son of Charles Darwin ( d. 1943 )

* 1850 – Joseph Charles Arthur, American botanist ( d. 1942 )

* 1850 Charles Dickens ' David Copperfield

The University was established via the passage of the University of Sydney Act, on 24 September 1850 and was assented on 1 October 1850 by Sir Charles Fitzroy.

** Charles Richet, French physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1850 )

The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery ( Which He Never Meant to Publish on Any Account ), commonly referred to as David Copperfield, is the eighth novel by Charles Dickens, first published as a novel in 1850.

George Robert Charles, the 13th Earl ( 1850 – 1895 ), was a grandson of the 10th Earl and a son of Baron Herbert of Lea ( q. v.

* Writer Charles Dickens, a one-time resident of Camden Town, placed various characters and places in his stories there as well: Bob Cratchit's family in A Christmas Carol ( 1843 ); the Micawbers in David Copperfield ( 1850 ); and in Dombey and Son ( 1846 – 1848 ), a description of the building of the London and Birmingham Railway, includes a trip through Camden Town.

The terms sweater for the middleman and sweating system for the process of subcontracting piecework were used in early critiques like Charles Kingsley's Cheap Clothes and Nasty, written in 1850, which described conditions in London, England.

In 1850 the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood became controversial after the exhibition of Millais's painting Christ In The House Of His Parents, considered to be blasphemous by many reviewers, notably Charles Dickens.

In 1850, Charles D. Semple purchased the Rancho Colus Mexican land grant on which Colusa was founded and called the place Salmon Bend.

Sinclairville was the birthplace of New Deal theoretician Rexford Tugwell ( 1891 – 1979 ), and of Charles W. Dorsett ( 1850 – 1936 ), Swedenborgian and Prohibition Party leader, whose wife, Martha Angle Dorsett ( 1851 – 1918 ) was the first woman attorney in Minnesota.

A small community was established September 13, 1850, consisting of George S. Clark and his wife, Susannah Dalley Clark, Richard and Ann Elizabeth Sheffer Clark, John Greenleaf Holman and Nancy Clark Holman, Lewis Harvey and his wife Lucinda Clark Harvey, Johnathan Harvey and Sarah Herbert Harvey, Charles Price and wife and child, Widow Harriet Marler and children, John Wilson, Ezekiel Holman, and possibly one or two others, relatives of those mentioned.

Wilkins Micawber is a fictional character from Charles Dickens's 1850 novel, David Copperfield.

* James Arthur Charles Liddell ( 28 December 1850 – 27 November 1853 ).

* General Sir Charles W. H. Douglas ( 1850 – 1914 ), Chief of the Imperial General Staff ( CIGS )

* Charles Dickens, David Copperfield ( 1850 )

The Revd Charles Dodgson, father of Lewis Carroll, was Rector of Croft and Archdeacon of Richmond in North Yorkshire, England, from 1843 to 1868 ; Carroll lived here from 1843 to 1850.

Above the start of the lock cut is a memorial to the famous Baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon, who was baptised in the river on 3 May 1850.

A funeral monument was not erected until 1850 by his half-brother and successor, Charles Stewart Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry.

Born Louis Honoré Charles Antoine Grimaldi in Baden-Baden, Germany, he was the only child of Prince Albert I of Monaco ( 1848 – 1922 ), and Lady Mary Victoria Hamilton ( 11 December 1850 – 14 May 1922 ).

After 1850, Huebner notes a continuing tradition of operas at Paris where ' principals appear with chorus at the end of an act and where private intrigue conjoins a well-articulated public dimension in the plot ' and cites amongst others Charles Gounod's La nonne sanglante ( 1854 ), Ambroise Thomas's Hamlet and operas by Jules Massenet, amongst them Le Roi de Lahore ( 1877 ) and Le Cid ( 1885 ).