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| 1850 |
| | | The British government buys the Danish fortresses on the Gold Coast, including Christiansborg castle in Accra | |
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| 1850 |
| | | California is admitted to the union just two years after being acquired from Mexico | |
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| 1850 |
| | | US president Zachary Taylor dies after a short illness and is succeeded by his vice-president, Millard Fillmore | |
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| 1852 |
| | | Lord John Russell's Whig administration collapses, and Lord Derby follows him as a Conservative prime minister at the head of a coalition government | |
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| 1852 |
| | | In an Argentinian civil war, Urquiza defeats the dictator Rosas and is subsequently elected president (in 1854) | |
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| 1852 |
| | | Democratic candidate Franklin Pierce wins the US presidential election, defeating his Whig opponent Winfield Scott | |
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| 1852 |
| | | Lord Aberdeen, leader of the 'Peelite' minority of the Conservative party, forms a new coalition government with the Liberals | |
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| 1854 |
| | | An anti-slavery movement, formed in the USA to oppose the Kansas-Nebraska Act, adopts a resonant name, calling itself the Republican party | |
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| 1855 |
| | | Lord Palmerston heads the coalition government in Britain after Lord Aberdeen loses a vote of confidence on his conduct of the Crimean War | |
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| 1856 |
| | | An American adventurer, William Walker, wins control of the government in Nicaragua and for a year rules as president | |
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