Editing 1850 (section)

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July]] &ndash; [[Taiping Rebellion]]: [[Hong Xiuquan]] orders the general mobilisation of rebel forces in [[China]].
* [[July 1]] &ndash; St. Mary School for Boys (the future [[University of Dayton]]) opens its doors in [[Dayton, Ohio]].
* [[July 2]] &ndash; Former twice-served British Prime Minister Sir [[Robert Peel]] dies following a fall from his horse at [[Constitution Hill, London]].
* [[July 9]]
**[[Báb|Mírzá 'Alí-Muhammad]], known as the [[Báb]], is executed by a firing squad in Tabriz, Persia, for claiming to be a prophet.
** Vice President [[Millard Fillmore]] becomes the 13th president of the United States upon the death of President [[Zachary Taylor]], aged 65.
* [[July 17]] – [[Vega]] became the first star (other than the Sun) to be photographed.<ref name=barger_white2000>{{cite book | display-authors=1 | last1=Barger | first1=M. Susan | last2=White | first2=William B. | date=2000 |orig-date=1991 | title=The Daguerreotype: Nineteenth-Century Technology and Modern Science | publisher=JHU Press | page=88 | isbn=978-0-8018-6458-2 }}</ref>
* [[August 28]] &ndash; [[Richard Wagner]]'s [[Romanticism|romantic]] [[opera]] ''[[Lohengrin (opera)|Lohengrin]]'' (including the [[Bridal Chorus]]) premieres under the direction of [[Franz Liszt]], in [[Weimar]].
* [[September 4]] &ndash; The [[Eusébio de Queirós Law]] is passed in the [[Brazilian Empire]] to abolish the international slave trade.
* [[September 9]]
** [[California]] is admitted as the 31st [[U.S. state]].
** The [[New Mexico Territory]] is organized by order of the [[United States Congress]].
* [[September 12]] – A [[1850 Xichang earthquake|7.9 earthquake]] shakes the Chinese province of [[Sichuan]] killing more than 20,000 people.
* [[September 13]] &ndash; [[Piz Bernina]], the highest summit of the eastern Alps, is first ascended.
* [[September 18]] 
** The [[Fugitive Slave Law]] is passed by the [[United States Congress]]. 
** [[Harriet Tubman]] becomes an official conductor of the [[Underground Railroad]].
* [[September 29]] &ndash; Papal bull ''[[Universalis Ecclesiae]]'': The [[Catholic Church in England and Wales|Catholic]] hierarchy is re-established in [[England and Wales]], by [[Pope Pius IX]] and future [[Pope Pius X]].