WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO DECEMBER 1850
Find out what all happened August to December 1850

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

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

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

The Charlotte Jane and the Randolph bring the first of the Canterbury Pilgrims to Lyttelton, New Zealand. (16. December 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 Roman Catholic hierarchy is re-established in England and Wales by Pope Pius IX. (29. September 1850)

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

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