Detail view of the portrait of Adams in the National Portrait Gallery ( United States ) | U. S. National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D. C., painted by George Caleb Bingham ; this copy c. 1850 from an original of 1844

* 1850 – Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U. S. Congress.

* 1850 – U. S. President Zachary Taylor dies and Millard Fillmore becomes the 13th President of the United States.

On his December 7, 1903 Third Annual Message to the Senate and House of Representatives he enumerated an extensive list of interventions the U. S. armed forces had made in Panama since 1850 explaining:

* 1850 – The U. S. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.

* 1850 – California is admitted as the thirty-first U. S. state.

* 1850 – The Compromise of 1850 transfers a third of Texas's claimed territory ( now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming ) to federal control in return for the U. S. federal government assuming $ 10 million of Texas's pre-annexation debt.

* May 1 – John Barclay Armstrong, Texas Ranger and U. S. Marshal ( b. 1850 )

* March 13 – American Civil War: The U. S. federal government forbids all Union army officers from returning fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.

* January 29 – Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U. S. Congress.

At the same time, the U. S. Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, which forced law enforcement officials ( even in states that had outlawed slavery ) to aid in the capture of fugitive slaves, and imposed heavy punishments on those who abetted escape.

His uncle, Theodore Frelinghuysen ( 1787 – 1862 ), was Attorney General of New Jersey from 1817 to 1829, was a U. S. Senator from New Jersey from 1829 to 1835, was the Whig candidate for Vice President of the United States on the Henry Clay ticket in the 1844 Presidential election, and was Chancellor of New York University from 1839 until 1850 and president of Rutgers College from 1850 to 1862.

Before the Compromise: < ul >< li > California Gold Rush | Gold Rush California applies to become free state < li > Southern United States | South wanted Southern California as slave territory < li > Texas claims territory as far as the Rio Grande < li > U. S. provisional government of New Mexico | New Mexico resists Texas, applies to be free state < li > Texas takes El Paso, Texas | El Paso February 1850 < li > Mormon pioneers apply to become State of Deseret </ ol >

The " adjusted " 1850 U. S Census of California showed this rush was overwhelmingly male with about 112, 000 males to 8, 000 females ( with about 5, 500 women over age 15 ).

The first formal meeting between the Hopi and the U. S government occurred in 1850 when seven Hopi leaders made the trip to Santa Fe to meet with Calhoun.

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

In the U. S., the Pinkerton National Detective Agency was a private detective agency established in 1850 by Allan Pinkerton.

* 1850: California admitted to U. S. statehood.

Raleigh County, founded in 1850, is a county located in the U. S. state of West Virginia.

* Elizabeth Tyler ( 1823 – 1850 ), daughter of U. S. President John Tyler

He became one of the first two U. S. Senators elected from the new state in 1850.

From L'Turu, I heard that until about 1850 the people of this island -- which was about the size of Guam or smaller -- had been of both sexes, and that the normal family life of Melanesian tribes was observed here with minor variations.

Those familiar with his work will remember that he placed the incipience of the democratic faith at around 1850.

The return of the Catholic hierarchy in 1850 was looked upon with indignant disapprobation and, in fact, was charged with being a gesture of disloyalty.

Edward died on February 1, 1850, in Springfield, likely of tuberculosis.

" Willie " Lincoln was born on December 21, 1850, and died on February 20, 1862.

By 1850, Luanda was one of the greatest and most developed Portuguese cities in the vast Portuguese Empire outside Mainland Portugal, full of trading companies, exporting ( together with Benguela ) palm and peanut oil, wax, copal, timber, ivory, cotton, coffee, and cocoa, among many other products.

As a young man, Nobel studied with chemist Nikolai Zinin ; then, in 1850, went to Paris to further the work ; and, at 18, he went to the United States for four years to study chemistry, collaborating for a short period under inventor John Ericsson, who designed the American Civil War ironclad USS Monitor.

Despite compromises in 1820 and 1850, the slavery issues exploded in the 1850s.

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 )

In 1850 Paul Julius Reuter founded the Reuters News Agency in Aachen which transferred messages between Brussels and Aachen using carrier pigeons.

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

Henry Clay introduced in the Senate a series of resolutions, the Compromise of 1850, to allow admission while addressing concerns of both sides of the issue ; at the same time Johnson introduced a similar more streamlined version of compromise in the House.

Johnson supported the Compromise of 1850 with the exception of its abolition of slavery in the nation's capital.

) In 1850 he also accepted an invitation to join the Masons Lodge in Greeneville.

* Rhodes ; James Ford History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the McKinley-Bryan Campaign of 1896 Volume: 6.

This led to the third cause of instability of worth, the " Independence of the American Kingdoms ," recognized between 1823 and 1850.

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

From 1850 onwards he became well known as a critic and essay-writer, and in 1860 he began working on his magnum opus, his History of Music, which was published at intervals from 1862 in five volumes, the last two ( 1878, 1882 ) being edited and completed by Otto Kade and Wilhelm Langhans.

* 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.