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| 1850 |
| | | Fyodor Dostoevsky begins four years of hard labour in Siberia for revolutionary activities | |
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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 |
| | | British foreign secretary Lord Palmerston sends a naval squadron to seize Greek ships in the Don Pacifico case | |
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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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| 1850 |
| | | US Secretary of State John Clayton and British ambassador Henry Bulwer come to an agreement about the building of a canal between the Atlantic and Pacific | |
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| 1850 |
| | | A rebellion against the Qing dynasty, led by Christian convert Hong Xiuquan, breaks out in southern China | |
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| 1851 |
| | | The president of France, Louis Napoleon, stages a coup d'état, rounding up his political opponents during a long December night | |
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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 |
| | | France demands that Turkey should end Russia's exclusive control of the Christian Holy Places in the Ottoman empire | |
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