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.

* 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.

Henry returned to public attention as a character in Richard Wagner's opera, Lohengrin ( 1850 ), trying to gain the support of the Brabantian nobles against the Magyars.

* 1850 – Richard Mentor Johnson, American politician ( b. 1780 )

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

Lohengrin is a romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner, first performed in 1850.

Richard Mentor Johnson ( October 17, 1780 or 1781 – November 19, 1850 ) was the ninth Vice President of the United States, serving in the administration of Martin Van Buren ( 1837 – 1841 ).

His son, Richard Maxwell Drew was born in Overton and served as a district judge state representative prior to his death in 1850 at the age of twenty-eight.

This bugle was highly popular and widely in use until c. 1850 – for example, in works by Richard Willis, later bandmaster of the United States Military Academy Band at West Point.

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.

Under the provostship of Richard Okes, from 1850 until his death in 1888, the college began a period of reform.

Amongst those at the 47th performance in February 1850 was Richard Wagner, now an impoverished political exile ; the success of a work so fundamentally against his own operatic principles was one of the spurs to his spiteful anti-Jewish denunciation of Meyerbeer and Mendelssohn, ' Das Judenthum in der Musik ' ( 1850 ).

His son, Richard Schumacher ( 1827 – 1902 ), was his assistant from 1844 to 1850 at the conservatory at Altona.

* Richard Mentor Johnson ( 1780 – 1850 ), Ninth Vice President of the United States

One of Drew's brothers, Richard Maxwell Drew, held several public offices in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, including that of state representative from 1848 until his death in 1850 at the age of twenty-eight.

* Richard Mentor Johnson ( 1780 – 1850 ), United States politician and Vice President

* 1846 – 1850 Richard Lalor Sheil

" Richard Rush published this " Advice " in 1850, by which time Southern spirit was so high that it was denounced as a forgery.

In 1850, the German composer Richard Wagner published Das Judenthum in der Musik (" Jewishness in Music ") under a pseudonym in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik.

* Richard Barnes Mason ( 1797 – 1850 ), U. S. army officer

Richard Dobbs Spaight, Jr. ( 1796November 2, 1850 ) was the 27th Governor of the U. S. state of North Carolina from 1835 to 1836.

The boundaries had already been sorted out back in 1850 at a huge hui chaired by Wanganui missionary Richard Taylor, with most of the Murimotu land being allotted to various hapu of Ngati Rangi, but no money was at stake back then, and in the intervening 20 years the Hauhau / Titokowaru / Te Kooti wars had been fought, creating new power groups and enmities, especially between the coastal Whanganui guerilla leader Major Kemp / Te Keepa and his upper river rival, Major Topia Turoa, and consequently numerous conflicting claims were put forward.

In 1850 Gould built a Post Office and named the fledgling settlement Cobden after Richard Cobden, a member of British Parliament whom Gould admired.

In 1850 he visited the University of Bonn, where he attended some of the lectures of Friedrich Bleek, Richard Rothe, C. M. Arndt, and Isaak Dorner.

Richard Vincent Whelan ( Dec 19, 1840-Jul 23, 1850 )