The 1850s (pronounced "eighteen-fifties") was a
decade of the
Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1850, and ended on December 31, 1859.
It was a very turbulent decade, as wars such as the
Crimean War, shifted and shook European politics, as well as the expansion of
colonization towards the
Far East, which also sparked conflicts like the
Second Opium War. In the meantime, the
United States saw its peak on
mass migration to the American West, that particularly made the nation experience an economic boom, as well as a rapidly increasing population.
The last living person from this decade was
Ada Roe, who died in 1970.