Long ( 1850 – 1934 ) decided to move his operation out to the west coast, owing to the Long-Bell Lumber Company's dwindling supplies in the south.

In 1850, Carnegie became a telegraph messenger boy in the Pittsburgh Office of the Ohio Telegraph Company, at $ 2. 50 per week, following the recommendation of his uncle.

It was confiscated from Kharak Singh in 1850 by the British East India Company and became part of the British Crown Jewels when Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India in 1877.

* 1854 – The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American system of watch manufacturing.

* 1850 – Albert Spalding, American baseball player, manager, and businessman, co-founder of the Spalding Sporting Goods Company ( d. 1915 )

* October 1 – The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury, Massachusetts by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham to become the Waltham Watch Company, pioneer in the American System of Watch Manufacturing.

Before 1850, most of the freshwater on the islands was held in beaver ( Castor canadensis ) ponds, although the aquatic mammal was extirpated by Hudson's Bay Company fur stations at Fort Langley and San Juan Island.

The Pony Express was a mail delivery system of the Leavenworth & Pike's Peak Express Company of 1849 which in 1850 became the Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company.

Jesse Boot, 1st Baron Trent ( 2 June 1850 – 13 June 1931 ) transformed The Boots Company, founded by his father, John Boot, into a national retailer, which branded itself as " Chemists to the Nation ", before he sold out his controlling interest to American investors in 1920.

The company was founded in 1850 as Schustala & Company later renamed Nesselsdorfer Wagenbau-Fabriksgesellschaft, a wagon and carriage manufacturer, and in 1897 produced the first motor car in central Europe, and one of the first cars in world, the Präsident automobil.

Murdo Mackenzie ( April 24, 1850 near Tain, Ross-shire, Scotland – May 30, 1939 in Denver, Colorado ) was twice ( 1891-1901 and 1922-1937 ) manager of the Scots-owned Matador Land and Cattle Company, and founding president of the American Stock Growers Association, for whom he testified before congress and the Interstate Commerce Commission.

In 1850 Holmfirth railway station opened, part of branch line built by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company.

The town had nine manufacturers by 1850, but two decades later only the Bradley Edge Tool Company still thrived.

On January 25, 1850, the Fort Wayne and Bluffton Plank Road Company was then organized.

Around 1850, two enterprising Scottish brother, Alexander and Thomas Gimmel, organized the Hampshire and Baltimore Coal Company.

In 1850, the Iron Company engaged James Holmes to serve as superintendent of the nail factory which had just been constructed.

Companies that once inhabited Shortsville include Empire Drill Works, founded by Hiram and Calvin Brown in 1850 and operated until 1900, Shortsville Wheel Company, a manufacturer of carriage and automobile wheels, founded in 1889 and closed in the early 20th century, and Papec Machine Company, a manufacturer of farming implements, which ceased operation in the 1980s.

The oldest railway in Texas, the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railroad chartered on February 11, 1850, as the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway Company built the first Seguin depot in 1876.

The State “ Fox and Wisconsin Improvement Company ” took over operations in 1850 and finished the canal and adjoining dam by 1856.

By 1850, the Lansing and Howell Plank Road Company was established to connect a toll road to the Detroit and Howell Plank Road, improving travel between Detroit and Lansing, which cut right through what is now East Lansing.

They then amalgamated with the South Yorkshire, Doncaster and Goole Railway in 1850, to become the South Yorkshire Railway and River Dun Company.

The " Perfect Handle " screwdriver was first manufactured by HD Smith & Company that operated from 1850 to 1900.

Through 1850 they built 8 of the 38 steamships constructed in New York until that year, including the Franklin and Havre ( the first steam vessels for the Havre Line ), followed by Arago and Rhode Island ( for the government ) and Eagle and Morro Castle ( for Spofford, Tileston & Company ).

Before 1949, there were five main department stores in Hong Kong and Shanghai: In Hong Kong: Lane Crawford-In 1850 founded by Thomas Ash Lane and Ninian Crawford, opened in Des Voeux Road Hong Kong ; Wing On-In 1907 Kwok's family returned to Hong Kong from Australia with accumulated savings and founded the Wing On Company ; Sincere-Founded by Ma Ying Piu in 1900 after returning from Australia and partnership with others to form the first Chinese department store in then British Hong Kong.

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.

At a parade in 1850, in which over 2, 000 female soldiers participated, one of them began a speech by saying, " As the blacksmith takes an iron bar and by fire changes its fashion, so we have changed our nature.

The First Industrial Revolution, which began in the 18th century, merged into the Second Industrial Revolution around 1850, when technological and economic progress gained momentum with the development of steam-powered ships, railways, and later in the 19th century with the internal combustion engine and electrical power generation.

Modern competition began around 1850 in Germany, when pole vaulting was added to the exercises of the Turner gymnastic clubs by Johann C. F. GutsMuths and Friedrich L. Jahn.

In 1850, Andrew Usher began producing a blended whisky that mixed traditional pot still whisky with that from the new Coffey still.

In December 2009, the World Meteorological Organization ( WMO ) announced that the 2000s may have been the warmest decade since records began in 1850, with four of the five warmest years since 1850 having occurred in this decade.

Alexander Twining began experimenting with vapor-compression refrigeration in 1848, and obtained patents in 1850 and 1853.

Many Alsatians also began to sail to the United States, settling in many areas from 1820 to 1850.

Anglos began arriving in the 1840's, and Southern planters in 1850 and 1860, followed by German and Polish immigrants from other counties.

General William Leslie Cazneau, credited several years earlier with burying the Alamo casualties with full military honors, began ranching in the area c. 1850.

The Irish began arriving in 1817 and settled in large numbers between 1830 and 1850.

The county was at first made up of areas that included part of what is now Searcy County, Arkansas, with many opposing splitting the two, which partly fueled the bloody Tutt-Everett War, which began in 1844 and continued into 1850.

Steamboats began running on the Sabine River in 1830, and by 1850 heavy traffic was carried on the Sabine.

Heilbronn was connected in 1850, and a ferry to Romanshorn, Switzerland, began operating in 1869.

Construction began in 1848, and the first mass in the church was celebrated on 12 May 1850.

When California became part of the U. S. in 1850, Lugo, as did all recipients of Spanish / Mexican land grants, began losing portions of his land to the growing population of Anglo newcomers.

When California entered the United States as a state in 1850, Americans began to move into the area.

Ranching began to take hold among Californio settlers, who lost their regional influence when California became a US state in 1850.

Sycamore then began an era of steady growth marked by population increases in 1848 to 262, 1849 to 320, 1850 to 390, 1851 to 435.

George Hamilton built a store and soon farmers began to build houses, by 1850 a stagecoach served the area.

Then the Industrial Revolution drew additional manpower away from hilltown farms, especially after 1850 when steam engines fueled by local wood or by coal began to replace water power.

Isaac M. Dimond came to the area in 1848 and, as one of his enterprises, in 1850 began to construct a dam, just east of Silver Creek on the Grand River near the center of section 15.

The town began in 1850, when the Creek Nation constructed a school at this site on the Texas Road.

The settlement of Cold Springs ( old spelling ) began around 1850.