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1850
 
    
Escaped slave Harriet Tubman makes the first of many dangerous journeys back into Maryland to bring other slaves into freedom       
1850
 
    
Jenny Lind, the 'Swedish Nightingale', has a great success touring the USA in a show presented by P.T. Barnum       
1850
 
    
A rebellion against the Qing dynasty, led by Christian convert Hong Xiuquan, breaks out in southern China       
1850
 
    
Allan Pinkerton retires from the Chicago police force and forms the Pinkerton National Detective Agency       
c. 1850
 
    
English cartoonist John Tenniel begins a 50-year career drawing for the satirical magazine Punch       
John Tenniel, by Holl, 1883
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1851
 
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An American clergyman, L.L. Langstroth, discovers the 'bee space', which becomes a standard feature of the modern beehive       
1851
 
    
Samson Raphael Hirsch becomes rabbi of a synagogue in Frankfurt, where he develops the theme of neo-Orthodoxy       
1851
 
    
Thomas Cubitt completes Osborne House, designed as a quiet retreat for Victoria and Albert on the Isle of Wight       
1851
 
    
Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto, based on a play by Victor Hugo, is a huge success at its premiere in Venice       
1851
 
     
English photographer Frederick Scott Archer publishes the details of his collodion process, a marked improvement on the earlier calotype negative