1850

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Decades: 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s - 1850s - 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s

Years: 1845 1846 1847 1848 1849 - 1850 - 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855

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Events

• End of the Irish potato famine
• Millard Fillmore succeeds Zachary Taylor as President of the United States of America
• The United States Republican Party is founded
• February 28 - University of Utah opens in Salt Lake City, Utah
• August 28 - Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin premieres
• December 16 - The first four ships arrived at Lyttleton to settle Christchurch, New Zealand.

Births

• August 5 - Guy de Maupassant, French writer
• August 25 - Charles Richet, Nobel Prize recipient for his work on anaphylaxis
• September 2 - Albert Spalding, baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer

Deaths

• - Frederic Bastiat, French philosopher
• January 20 - Adam Oehlenschlager, Danish poet