WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO DECEMBER 1850
Find out what all happened January to December 1850

U.S. President Zachary Taylor dies and Millard Fillmore succeeds him as 13th President of the United States. (9. July 1850)

Los Angeles, California is incorporated as a city. (4. April 1850)

California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state. (9. September 1850)

The Great Fire of Cottenham, a large part of the Cambridgeshire village (England) is burnt to the ground in suspicious circumstances. (4. April 1850)

Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress. (29. January 1850)

First ascent of Piz Bernina, the highest summit of the eastern Alps. (13. September 1850)

Persian prophet Báb is executed in Tabriz, Persia. (9. July 1850)

American Express was founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo. (18. March 1850)

The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened. (5. March 1850)

The U.S. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. (18. September 1850)

The Bloody Island Massacre takes place in Lake County, California, in which a large number of Pomo Indians in Lake County are slaughtered by a regiment of the United States Cavalry, led by Nathaniel Lyon. (15. May 1850)

The Roman Catholic hierarchy is re-established in England and Wales by Pope Pius IX. (29. September 1850)

Millard Fillmore is inaugurated as the 13th President of the United States upon the death of President Zachary Taylor, 16 months into his term. (10. July 1850)

The Charlotte Jane and the Randolph bring the first of the Canterbury Pilgrims to Lyttelton, New Zealand. (16. December 1850)

The first National Women's Rights Convention begins in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. (23. October 1850)

Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries Crown Prince Karl of Sweden-Norway. (19. June 1850)

Danish troops defeat a Schleswig-Holstein force in the town of Lottorf, Schleswig-Holstein. (24. November 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. (9. September 1850)

The treaty, Punctation of Olmütz, is signed in Olomouc. Prussia capitulates to Austria, which will take over the leadership of the German Confederation. (29. November 1850)

Autocephaly officially granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to the Church of Greece. (29. June 1850)