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  • Paris, France
    Tuesday Jan 1, 1850
    Alfred Nobel

    To Paris to further the work

    Paris, France
    Tuesday Jan 1, 1850

    As a young man, Nobel studied with chemist Nikolai Zinin; then, in 1850, went to Paris to further the work.




  • U.S.
    1850
    Sojourner Truth

    The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: a Northern Slave

    U.S.
    1850

    Truth started dictating her memoirs to her friend Olive Gilbert and in 1850 William Lloyd Garrison privately published her book, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: a Northern Slave.




  • United Kingdom
    Sunday Mar 31, 1850
    David Copperfield

    Household Words

    United Kingdom
    Sunday Mar 31, 1850

    Although plunged into the writing of his novel, Dickens set out to create a new journal, Household Words, the first issue of which appeared on 31 March 1850. This daunting task, however, did not seem to slow down the writing of David Copperfield: I am "busy as a bee", he writes happily to the actor William Macready.




  • Saint Petersburg, Russia
    1850
    Dmitri Mendeleev

    The beginning of a Chemist

    Saint Petersburg, Russia
    1850

    After the rejection, the mother and son continued to Saint Petersburg, his father's alma mater. The poor Mendeleev family relocated to Saint Petersburg where he entered the Main Pedagogical Institute in 1850.




  • Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.
    1850
    Sojourner Truth

    Truth spoke at the first National Women's Rights Convention

    Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.
    1850

    Sojourner Truth purchased a home in Florence for $300 and spoke at the first National Women's Rights Convention in Worcester, Massachusetts. In 1854, with proceeds from sales of the narrative and cartes-de-visite captioned, "I sell the shadow to support the substance", she paid off the mortgage held by her friend from the community, Samuel L. Hill.




  • Blackheath, London, England, United Kingdom
    Thursday Jul 18, 1850
    Richard Branson

    Birth

    Blackheath, London, England, United Kingdom
    Thursday Jul 18, 1850

    Branson was born in Blackheath, London, to Eve Branson, a former ballet dancer and air hostess, and Edward James Branson (1918–2011), a barrister.




  • London, England, United Kingdom
    1850
    Elizabeth Blackwell

    Blackwell enrolled at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London

    London, England, United Kingdom
    1850

    After a period of recovery, Blackwell enrolled at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London in 1850. She regularly attended James Paget's lectures. She made a positive impression there, although she did meet some opposition when she tried to observe the wards.


  • London, England, United Kingdom
    Thursday Aug 15, 1850
    Libraries

    Public Libraries Act 1850

    London, England, United Kingdom
    Thursday Aug 15, 1850

    Although by the mid-19th century England could claim 274 subscription libraries and Scotland, 266, the foundation of the modern public library system in Britain is the Public Libraries Act 1850.


  • England, United Kingdom
    Friday Aug 16, 1850
    David Copperfield

    Dora Annie Dickens

    England, United Kingdom
    Friday Aug 16, 1850

    His third daughter was born on 16 August 1850, called Dora Annie Dickens, the same name as his character's first wife. The baby died nine months later after the last serial was issued and the book was published.


  • U.S.
    Sep, 1850
    Abraham Lincoln

    Failure of the Compromise of 1850

    U.S.
    Sep, 1850

    The debate over the status of slavery in the territories failed to alleviate tensions between the slave-holding South and the free North, with the failure of the Compromise of 1850, a legislative package designed to address the issue.


  • Saint Petersburg, Russia
    1850
    Dmitri Mendeleev

    Sickness and Death

    Saint Petersburg, Russia
    1850

    Soon after Mendeleev was enrolled in the Main Pedagogical Institute, Mendeleev's mother suffered from tuberculosis, unfortunately, she passed away in September 1850.


  • England, United Kingdom
    Monday Oct 21, 1850
    David Copperfield

    Torn and Happy

    England, United Kingdom
    Monday Oct 21, 1850

    Dickens marked the end of his manuscript on 21 October 1850 and felt both torn and happy like every time he finished a novel: "Oh, my dear Forster, if I were to say half of what Copperfield makes me feel to-night, how strangely, even to you, I should be turned inside out! I seem to be sending some part of myself into the Shadowy World".


  • England, United Kingdom
    Friday Nov 1, 1850
    David Copperfield

    The 64 chapters have all been published

    England, United Kingdom
    Friday Nov 1, 1850

    "The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger, of Blunderstone Rookery" was published from 1 May 1849 to 1 November 1850 (3 chapters per month) in 19 monthly one-shilling installments, containing 32 pages of text and two illustrations by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"), with a title cover, simplified to The Personal History of David Copperfield. The last installment was a double-number. On the other side of the Atlantic, John Wiley & Sons and G P Putnam published a monthly edition, then a two-volume book version.


  • Peel Park, Salford, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom
    Nov, 1850
    Libraries

    Salford Museum and Art Gallery

    Peel Park, Salford, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom
    Nov, 1850

    Salford Museum and Art Gallery first opened in November 1850 as "The Royal Museum & Public Library", as the first unconditionally free public library in England.


  • Springfield, Illinois, U.S.
    Sunday Dec 22, 1850
    Abraham Lincoln

    William Wallace Lincoln

    Springfield, Illinois, U.S.
    Sunday Dec 22, 1850

    Lincoln's third son, "Willie" Lincoln was born on December 21, 1850, and died of a fever at the White House on February 20, 1862.


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