See:
Wikipedia.
Events:
End of the Irish potato famine.
The United States Republican Party is founded.
Foundation of the University of Sydney, the oldest in Australia.
January 4 - The first American ice-skating club is formed (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).
January 29 - Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the United States Congress.
February 28 - University of Utah opens in Salt Lake City, Utah.
March 7 - United States Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech in
which he endorses the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.
March 18 - American Express is founded by Henry Wells & William Fargo.
April 4 - Los Angeles, California is incorporated as a city.
July 9 - President Zachary Taylor dies while in office and Millard Fillmore becomes the 13th
President of the United States (he is inaugurated the next day).
August 28 - Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin premieres.
September 9 - California is admitted as the 31st U.S. state.
September 9 - New Mexico Territory is organized by order of the U.S. Congress.
December 16 - The first four ships arrived at Lyttelton to settle Christchurch, New Zealand.
Births:
January 21 -
Paul Vinzenz Busch, ringmaster (+ 1927).
January 27 -
Samuel Gompers, labor union leader (+ 1924).
February 24 -
Klazina van den Houten.
March 8 -
Aren de Vries.
March 27 -
Jan Jonker.
April 7 -
Willem van den Houten.
May 1 -
Prince Arthur of the United Kingdom, third son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert,
later Duke of Connaught and Strathearn.
May 12 -
Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. statesman (+ 1924).
July 15 -
Jacobus de Jong.
August 7 -
Cornelis of Kornelis van den Houten.
August 14 -
Jan Roos.
September 2 -
Albert Spalding, baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer.
September 21 -
Willemina Mechtelina Johanna van den Houten.
September 29 -
Maarten van den Houten.
September 29 -
Aart Verschoor.
October 19 -
Dingeman Barbier.
November 13 -
Robert Louis Stevenson (+ 1894).
November 24 -
Francina van der Mast.
Deaths:
April 4 -
Neeltje van den Houten.
April 4 -
Geertje Natte.
July 8 -
Prince Adolphus of the United Kingdom, 1st Duke of Cambridge.
July 9 -
Zachary Taylor, President of the United States.
August 18 -
Honore de Balzac, author.
October 25 -
Leendert Vreeswijk.
November 19 -
Richard Mentor Johnson, Vice President of the United States.
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