1850 in the American Old West

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January 29 - Responding to questions of how to accommodate slavery in a growing nation, Henry Clay proposes a series of measures to preserve the Union that come be called the Compromise of 1850
April 4 - City of Los Angeles incorporated
April 15 - City of San Francisco incorporated
June 3 - Five Cayuse tribesmen hanged in Oregon City for Whitman massacre
July 9 - Zachary Taylor, 12th president on United States, dies of cholera after serving 16 months. Millard Fillmore becomes president.
September 9 - California is admitted as the 31st U.S. state
September 9 - New Mexico Territory is organized by order of the U.S. Congress
September 9 - Utah Territory is organized by order of the U.S. Congress
September 27 - Donation Land Claim Act to promote homestead settlement in the Oregon Territory
September 29 - Millard Fillmore appoints Brigham Young first governor of Utah Territory