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California became The 31st state of the United States of America.

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In the United States, tensions over slavery became prominent and events began to put the nation on the road to civil war.

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The expansion of colonization towards the Far East, which also sparked conflicts like the Second Opium War

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In Europe, new technology was celebrated and the great powers fought the Crimean War which shifted and shook European politics.

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Joel Houghton made and invented the first patented dishwasher in 1850.

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The gown was invented & most common in 1850, which is simply a longer & fuller version of a skirt.

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George Cayley invents the first manned glider in 1853. It provided a fun entertainment for people of all ages. It planted the idea of flight.

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Hair was worn without much thought and often worn in a bun or wound braid in the back.

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The question of how to deal with the new territory acquired from Mexico led to the Compromise of 1850.With this the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished.

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The Victorian Dress  reform was marked in 1851 which was a rational costume consisting of trousers placed under a short skirt.

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Was first used in 1850

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the first important novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of the leading authors of 19th century romanticism in American literature.

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John Gorrie makes the first pubic demonstration of his ice-making machine.

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Stephen Foster x Camp town Races
M.S. Pike x Home Again
Niels Gade x Symphony No.4

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19th-century literature concerns the developments in French Literature also because during a dynamic period in French history there was the rise of Democracy and the fitful end of Monarchy and Empire.

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Gustave Courbet - A burial at Ornans

Ivan Aivazovsky – The Ninth Wave

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Rudolf Clausius publishes his paper on the mechanical theory of heat, which first states the basic ideas of the second law thermodynamics.

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Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, the Whale (1851) ...

Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1853) ...

Henry David Thoreau, Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854) ...

Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (1855) ...

Louisa May Alcott, The Mysterious Key (1867) ...

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy (1868)

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January – The collected works of Edgar Allan Poe begin posthumous publication co-edited by Rufus Wilmot Griswold who contributes a memoir denigrating Poe's reputation based partly on forged evidence.
January–April – The Germ, periodical of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood edited by William Michael Rossetti, is published (four issues, the last two retitled Art and Poetry).

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning – Sonnets from the Portuguese
Robert Browning – Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day
Alfred Tennyson – In Memoriam A.H.H.
William Wordsworth – The Prelude