Mission San Juan Capistrano (Spanish: Misión San Juan Capistrano) is a Spanish mission in San Juan Capistrano, Orange County, California.Founded November 1, 1776 in colonial Las Californias by Spanish Catholic missionaries of the Franciscan Order, it was named for Saint John of Capistrano.The Spanish Colonial Baroque style church was located in the Alta California …

1850) 21 December – Sir William McMillan, New South Wales politician and businessman (born in Ireland) (d. 1926) Unknown – Christie Palmerston, explorer and prospector (d. 1897) Unknown – Mei Quong Tart, merchant (born in China) (d. 1903) Deaths. 22 January – William Westall, landscape artist (born and died in the United Kingdom) (b. 1781)

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850; Long title: An Act to amend, and supplementary to, the Act entitled "An Act respecting Fugitives from Justice, and Persons escaping from the Service of their Masters", approved February twelfth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three.Enacted by: the 31st United States Congress: Citations; Public law: Pub.L. 31–60 Statutes at Large

The 1850 New Jersey gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1850. Democratic nominee George Franklin Fort defeated Whig nominee John Runk with 53.84% of the vote. General election Candidates. George Franklin Fort, Democratic; John Runk, Whig; Results. New Jersey ...

The caste system in India is the paradigmatic ethnographic example of caste.It has its origins in ancient India, and was transformed by various ruling elites in medieval, early-modern, and modern India, especially the Mughal Empire and the British Raj. It is today the basis of affirmative action programmes in India. The caste system consists of two different concepts, varna and jati, …

In September 2013, the incarceration rate of the United States of America was the highest in the world at 716 per 100,000 of the national population; by 2019 it had fallen to 419 in state and federal prisons per 100,000. Between 2019 and 2020, the United States saw a significant drop in the total number of incarcerations. State and federal prison and local jail incarcerations …

Name. The name Miami derives from Myaamia (plural Myaamiaki), the tribe's autonym (name for themselves) in their Algonquian language of Miami-Illinois.This appears to have been derived from an older term meaning "downstream people." Some scholars contended the Miami called themselves the Twightwee (also spelled Twatwa), supposedly an onomatopoeic reference to …

29 janvier : Henry Clay introduit le Grand compromis de 1850 au Congrès [15].Le Sud obtient le vote de la loi sur les esclaves fugitifs (18 septembre) ; en contrepartie, la Californie est admise dans l’Union. L’esclavage est interdit en Californie, mais autorisé au Nouveau-Mexique et dans l’Utah (9 septembre) [16].En novembre, plusieurs États du Sud, réunis à Nashville, réclament ...

1850 fue un año común comenzado en martes según el calendario gregoriano. Es el año 1999 de la era común y del anno Domini, el año 850 del segundo milenio, el año 50 del siglo XIX y el primer año de la década de 1850 Acontecimientos Enero. 1 de enero: en España, el sistema de correos utiliza sellos por ...