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1850
Events
January–March
January 18
– British foreign secretary
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
, sends ships to blockade the port of
Piraeus
, ostensibly as a result of the
Don Pacifico affair
.
January 20
– The ships of the
McClure Arctic Expedition
set sail from Plymouth.
January 29
–
Henry Clay
introduces the
Compromise of 1850
to the
U.S. Congress
.
February 28
– The
University of Utah
opens in
Salt Lake City
,
Utah
.
March 5
– Opening of the
Britannia Bridge
over the
Menai Strait
.
March 7
–
United States Senator
Daniel Webster
gives his "Seventh of March" speech in which he endorses the
Compromise of 1850
in order to prevent a possible
civil war
.
March 16
–
Nathaniel Hawthorne
's
The Scarlet Letter
is published.
March 19
–
American Express
is founded by
Henry Wells
&
William Fargo
.
March 31
– The
paddle steamer
, bound from
Cork
to London, sinks in the
English Channel
with the loss of all 250 on board.
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