1850 in the American Old West
- 1850 in the American Old West
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Events
* January 29 - Responding to questions of how to accommodate slavery in a growing nation, Henry Clay proposes a series of measures to preserve the Union that come be called the Compromise of 1850
* April 4 - City of Los Angeles incorporated
* April 15 - City of San Francisco incorporated
* June 3 - Five Cayuse tribesmen hanged in Oregon City for Whitman massacre
* July 9 - Zachary Taylor, 12th president on United States, dies of cholera after serving 16 months. Millard Fillmore becomes president.
* 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
* September 9 - Utah Territory is organized by order of the U.S. Congress
* September 27 - Donation Land Claim Act to promote homestead settlement in the Oregon Territory
* September 29 - Millard Fillmore appoints Brigham Young first governor of Utah Territory
Unknown Date
* Pinkerton Detective Agency founded
Births
* February 27 - Henry Huntington, U.S. railroad pioneer and art collector (d. 1927)
* May 3 - Johnny Ringo, U.S. cowboy (d. 1882)
* June 5 - Pat Garrett, lawman known for killing Billy the Kid (d. 1908)
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