1796
Oct 15
| 1796 • Carl Friedrich Gauss discovers that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most 3 triangular numbers. |
1850
Age: 53y
| 1850 • Vice President Millard Fillmore becomes the 13th President of the United States following the death of President Taylor. |
1854
Jul 1
Age: 57y
| 1854 • The Kansas-Nebraska Act becomes law, replacing the Missouri Compromise (of 1820), thus act creating the Kansas Territory and the Nebraska Territory, west of the State of Missouri and the State of Iowa. The Kansas-Nebraska Act also established that those two new Territories would decide either to allow or disallow slavery depending on balloting by their residents. These areas would have been strictly "free territory" under the Missouri Compromise, which allowed slavery in the State of Missouri but disallowed it in any other new state north of the latitude 36 degrees, 30 minutes, which forms most of the southern boundary of Missouri. This prohibition of slavery extended all the way from the western boundary of Missouri to the Pacific Ocean. |