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 )

* 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.

* 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.

* Reginald Heber Roe ( 1850 – 1926 ), 2nd Headmaster of Brisbane Grammar School, 1st Vice Chancellor of University of Queensland

** Heber Kimball ( 1849 – 1850 )

** David Heber Kimball ( born 26 February 1850 )

Roe accompanied her husband, Lieutenant Colonel Fayette Washington Roe ( 1850 – 1916 ), to his assignment at Fort Lyon, Colorado Territory.

* Richard Butler ( Australian politician ) ( 1850 – 1925 ), Premier of South Australia

The establishment of choral societies ( c. 1850 ) and symphony orchestras ( c. 1890 ) led to increased compositional activity, although many Australian classical composers attempted to work entirely within European models.

The Torresian Crow was described by ornithologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1850, with the Australian subspecies ceciliae described by Mathews in 1912.

On 23 April 2008, Dr Chapman authored an op-ed in The Australian newspaper, noting a new ice age will eventually occur, that based on current low solar activity it might even be imminent, and " It is time to put aside the global warming dogma, at least to begin contingency planning about what to do if we are moving into another little ice age, similar to the one that lasted from 1100 to 1850 .".

* John Stephens ( editor ) ( 1806 – 1850 ), owner and editor of the South Australian Register

* William Gilbert ( pastoralist ) ( 1850 – 1923 ) South Australian pastoralist and vigneron

The six self-governing Australian colonies that formed the Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January 1901 operated their own postal service and issued their own stamps – see articles on the systems on New South Wales ( first stamps issued 1850 ), Victoria ( 1850 ), Tasmania ( 1853 ), Western Australia ( 1854 ), South Australia ( 1855 ) and Queensland ( 1860 ).

He and two other ministers set up the Synod of New South Wales ( the second of this name ) on 3 April 1850, although the minutes term it The Australian Presbyterian Church.

On 5 August 1850 the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed the Australian Constitutions Act 1850 which made provision for the separation of Victoria from New South Wales.

HM Prison Pentridge was an Australian prison built in 1850 in Coburg, Victoria.

James George Drake ( 26 April 1850 – 1 August 1941 ), Australian politician, was a member of the first federal ministry.

In 1850 the Australian Colonies Government Act was passed by the Imperial Parliament.

In 1850 he became a justice of the peace, a special magistrate and a director of the Savings Bank, and helped found and became first chairman of the South Australian Chamber of Commerce.

In 1850 the South Australian government had offered a bonus of £ 4000 to be equally divided between the owners of the first two iron steamers that should successfully navigate the Murray from Goolwa to the junction of the Darling River.

In 1850, the British Parliament passed an act that permitted the Australian colonies to establish legislative councils that were one-third nominated and two-thirds elected, but only under the condition that the colonies take responsibility for the costs of their own government.

A £ 4, 000 prize was offered in 1850 by the South Australian government for the first two people to navigate the River Murray in an iron steamboat as far as its junction with the Darling River.

* Agar Wynne ( 1850 – 1934 ), Australian politician

* Jill Conway ( 1967 ), ' Macarthur, Elizabeth ( 1766 – 1850 )', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 2, Melbourne University Press

* William Knox ( Victorian politician ) ( 1850 – 1913 ), Australian politician-House

In 1850, after a period of informal activity, the Society was revived and its name became the Australian Philosophical Society.

Following a period of informal activity, the Society was revitalised and renamed the Australian Philosophical Society on 19 January 1850.

* Charing, S. ( 1995 ) ' Self-Help v State Intervention: the 1850 Public Library Act as a Reflection of Mid-Victorian Doctrine, Australian Library Journal 44 ( 1 ), pp. 47 – 54.