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| 1850 |
| | | Jenny Lind, the 'Swedish Nightingale', has a great success touring the USA in a show presented by P.T. Barnum | |
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| 1850 |
| | | Allan Pinkerton retires from the Chicago police force and forms the Pinkerton National Detective Agency | |
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| 1851 |
| | | An American clergyman, L.L. Langstroth, discovers the 'bee space', which becomes a standard feature of the modern beehive | |
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| 1851 |
| | | The first American branch of the Young Men's Christian Association is established in Boston | |
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| 1851 |
| | | The New York Times is founded by Henry Jarvis Raymond as a conservative daily with an emphasis on accuracy | |
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| 1851 |
| | | US author Nathaniel Hawthorne bases his novel The House of the Seven Gables on a curse invoked against his own family | |
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| 1851 |
| | | Herman Melville publishes Moby Dick; or, The Whale, a novel based on his own 18-month experience on a whaler in 1841-2 | |
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| 1851 |
| | | A journalist in the Terre Haute Express gives a piece of advice, 'Go west, young man', that chimes perfectly with the US pioneer spirit | |
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| 1852 |
| | | The citizens of the US are scandalized to discover that the Mormons practise polygamy | |
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| 1852 |
| | | In the four years since the discovery of gold, the population of California has leapt from 14,000 to 250,000 | |
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