Events Date 1850 January | History by KabAstro

Jan 5 California Exchange opens
Jan 18 British blockade Piraeus, Greece, to enforce mercantile claims

1st Northwest Passage

Jan 20 HMS Investigator headed by Robert McClure leaves England, 1st expedition to make a Northwest passage (though some over ice)

Jan 22 Alta California becomes a daily paper, 1st such in Calif
Jan 26 1st German language daily newspaper in US published, NYC

Compromise of 1850

Jan 29 Senator Henry Clay drafts the Compromise of 1850 to defuse tensions between slave states and free states over territories won during the Mexican–American War

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