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 )

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

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.

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.

* July 4 – Marcelo H. del Pilar, Filipino writer and journalist ( b. 1850 )

Around 1850 the " Utrechtian School " of science was formed with Pieter Harting, Gerardus J. Mulder, Christophorus H. D. Buys Ballot and Franciscus C. Donders among the leading scientists.

It is uncertain who chose the name " Salem " for the new town, but it is believed to be one of two people: trustee David Leslie from Salem, Massachusetts, or William H. Willson who in 1850 – 1851 filed the plats for the main part of the city.

* John H. McCarthy ( 1850 – 1908 ), U. S. Representative from New York

William H. Seward ( c. 1850 ).

The sites chosen were the Elisha Sharp House ( also known as the Sharp-Wasson-Worth House, c. 1825 ), the Stewart House ( 1830 ), the R. H. Johnson Stable, the Mount Zion church and Cemetery ( 1830 ), Zeigler's Mill ( 1850, previously Gettys Mill ), the Washington Ferry ( 1808 ), the Pisah Church ( 1818 ), the old gymnasium ( c. 1822 ), the old Meigs County Courthouse ( 1904 ), the old Volunteer Electric Cooperative BUilding ( 1935 ), the Ashley House ( 1885 ), and the Sam Eaves Store ( c. 1861 ).

Brothers Amzi, Horace H. and John R. Patterson settled in Pea Ridge with their families and elderly parents, William and Elizabeth Patterson, around 1850 from Tennessee.

Seymour was incorporated on May 1850, and was named for Governor Thomas H. Seymour.

It was built in 1850 by James H. Miller and is located on Back Street

under the system of supervision by town superintendents, Thomas W. potter served in 1844 and 1845, John C. Potter in 1846, Paul K. Davison in 1847 and 1848, Dr. Amos Allen from 1850 to 1853 and Daniel H. Davison from 1854 to 1856.

I. Vosburgh ; 1845, George Sipperly ; 1846, S. Coons ; 1847, Calvin Sliter ; 1848 – 1850, A. H. Fox ; 1851, C. Sliter ; 1852 – 1853, A. Mott ; 1854 – 1855, N. Upham ; 1856 – 1857, O. Horton ; 1858 – 1860, P. H. Thomas ; 1861, W. Stevens ; 1862 – 1865, Joel B. Peck ; 1866 – 1867, B.

Marcus Peck ; 1825 – 1826, William F. Averill ; 1827 – 1833, Marcus Peck ; 1834, Peter F. Westervelt ; 1835 – 1837, John I. Vosburgh ; 1838 – 1839 ; John H. Gregory ; 1840, Calvin Sliter ; 1841, John H. Gregory ; 1842 – 1843, Solomon Coons ; 1844, Reuben A. Thomas ; 1845, S. V. R. Cole ; 1846, David Fonda ; 1847, David Luce ; 1848, Lorenzo M. Lown ; 1849 – 1850, William L. Stewart, jr .; 1851, Jacob Boyce ; 1852, W. H. Wicks ; 1853, Joseph Alden ; 1854, William H. Lyons ; 1855, Samuel D. Seymour ; 1856, Harmon Westfall ; 1857, George Sliter ; 1858, Albert H. Dutcher ; 1859 – 1861, George Sliter ; 1862, D. E. Barnes ; 1863, William H. Ford ; 1864, B. M. Wilkinson ; 1865, Jeffrey P. Thomas ; 1866 – 1867, David Horton ;

By 1850 Yorkville was incorporated, with W. H.

On July 19, 1850, William H. Adams, John Mercer and Philo T. Farnsworth, Mormon pioneers sent by Brigham Young, arrived at the area now known as Pleasant Grove and staked out farms in what is now the southwest corner of the city.

In common with Alexander H. Stephens and Howell Cobb, he defended Henry Clay's Compromise of 1850 against southerners who advocated secession from the Union as the only solution to sectional tensions over slavery.

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

* The Leader ( English newspaper ), a weekly newspaper ( 1850 – 1860 ) founded by G. H. Lewes

* 1850, H. A. Witt and M. E. Areskong ( Swedish )