Timeline August 1850

Events in August 1850 4

• 1773 – 1850 Louis Philippe I (1773-1850) Died 26 August 1850, aged 76 Louis Philippe ruled as King of the French from 1830 until he was overthrown in the Revolution of 1848. He fled to England under a false identity and spent his final years in exile at Claremont House in Surrey. His fall ended constitutional monarchy in France and opened the way for the Second Republic.
• 1778 – 1850 Jose de San Martin (1778-1850) Died 17 August 1850, aged 72 San Martin led the armies that won independence for Argentina, Chile, and Peru from Spanish rule. After helping liberate Peru he voluntarily relinquished power rather than contest leadership with Simon Bolivar, and spent his final decades in exile in France. He is honored across South America as one of the continent' foremost liberators.
• 1799 – 1850 Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) Died 18 August 1850, aged 51 Balzac was a French novelist whose vast cycle of interlinked novels and stories, La Comedie Humaine, chronicled French society after the fall of Napoleon. He is regarded as one of the founders of literary realism. Exhausted by decades of prolific writing, he died just months after marrying Ewelina Hanska.
• 1850 – 1893 Guy de Maupassant French writer Maupassant mastered the short story form with realistic depictions of human nature and society.