what was the date of the event of the Compromise of 1850

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The Compromise of 1850 was a series of legislative measures adopted in the United States Congress, which were passed in September 1850. The key pieces of this compromise included the admission of California as a free state, the creation of New Mexico and Utah territories with the question of slavery to be determined by popular sovereignty, the resolution of Texas's boundary issues, the abolition of the slave trade in Washington, D.C., and the strengthening of the Fugitive Slave Act.