In due course the Governor-General received the Koh-i-Noor from Login, who had been appointed Governor of the Citadel, the Royal Fort at Lahore, with the Royal Treasury, which Login valued at almost £ 1, 000, 000 (£ as of ), excluding the Koh-i-Noor, on 6 April 1848, under a receipt dated 7 December 1849, in the presence of the members of the Board of Administration — the local resident H. M. Lawrence, C. C.

The liberal victory perished by the end of 1848 ; the movement became weak due to internal fighting, while the conservatives regrouped, formed an inner group of advisers — including the Gerlach brothers — known as the " Camarilla " around the King, and retook control of Berlin.

— Thackeray, Vanity Fair ( 1848 )

While the Magdalene Asylums had been " reforming " prostitutes since the mid-18th century, the years between 1848 and 1870 saw a veritable explosion in the number of institutions working to " reclaim " these " fallen women " from the streets and retrain them for entry into respectable society — usually for work as domestic servants.

By 1848, Ogden and Scammon had raised $ 350, 000 — enough to begin laying track.

* Reflections on a Child's Water Wheel — an Excerpt from Thoreau's 1848 Journal

On July 19, 1848, the morning of the first day of convention, the organizing committee arrived at the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel shortly before ten o ' clock on a hot, sunny day to find a crowd gathered outside and the church doors locked — an overlooked detail.

The first people to rush to the gold fields, beginning in the spring of 1848, were the residents of California themselves — primarily agriculturally oriented Americans and Europeans living in Northern California, along with Native Americans and some Californios ( Spanish-speaking Californians ).

* 1848 — Lord Kelvin ( William Thomson )-Kelvin scale, in his paper, On an Absolute Thermometric Scale

* 1848 — Lord Rosse studies M1 and names it the Crab Nebula

The Otago Settlement, sponsored by the Free Church of Scotland, took concrete form in Otago in March 1848 with the arrival of the first two immigrant ships from Greenock ( on the Firth of Clyde ) — the John Wickliffe and the Philip Laing.

" The first translation by Augustin Pritchard — published anonymously by Mr. Baillière ( volume I in 1845 and volume II in 1848 ) — suffered from being hurriedly made.

In 1848 Madvig entered parliament as a member of the " Eider-Danish " part — those who desired the Eider to be the boundary of the country.

* Scoffies — Gallatin in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 2: 103 ( 1848 )

* Silas — The Washington Township land that became the community of Silas was purchased in 1848, and the original owner established a church and school.

On 2 December 1851 Louis Napoleon — who had been elected President of France in 1848 — carried out a coup d ' état by dissolving the National Assembly and arresting the leading Republicans.

Susanna ," which became an anthem of the California Gold Rush — in 1848 – 1849.

In 1838 he was transferred to the council of state as master of requests, which post he held through the revolution of 1848 and the coup d ' état till 1860, when he was made senator — a paid office, it must be remembered, and, in effect, a lucrative sinecure.

* Women's rights movement — Founded by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton who organized the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 and published a Declaration of Sentiments calling for the social and legal equality of women.

* Abolition movement — The addition of Mexico's former territories in 1848 at the conclusion of the Mexican-American War reopened the possibility of the expansion of race-based chattel slavery ; the adaptation of the slave system to industrial-style cotton production resulted in increasing dehumanization of black workers and a backlash against slavery in the northern states ; key figures included William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass.

The Orléanists indeed continued throughout the Second Republic ( 1848 – 1852 ) and the Empire ( 1852 – 1870 ) to enjoy a marked social and literary prestige, on the strength of the wealth and capacity of some of their members, their influence in the Académie française and the ability of their organs in the press — particularly the Revue des deux mondes, the Journal des débats, and the papers directed by E. Hervé.

* was a 91-gun second-rate ship of the line, originally laid down as HMS Edgar, but renamed in 1848 and launched in 1859.

Harrison argues that the first to set out a satisfactory resolution of the paradox was Lord Kelvin, in a little known 1901 paper, and that Edgar Allan Poe's essay Eureka ( 1848 ) curiously anticipated some qualitative aspects of Kelvin's argument:

The idea of a unified spacetime is stated by Edgar Allan Poe in his essay on cosmology titled Eureka ( 1848 ) that " Space and duration are one.

* Eureka: A Prose Poem, 1848 essay by Edgar Allan Poe

According to Susan Bayly: Those like ( Sir William ) Hunter, as well as the key figures of H. H. Risley ( 1851 – 1911 ) and his protégé Edgar Thurston, who were disciples of the French race theorist Topinard and his European followers, subsumed discussions of caste into theories of biologically determined race essences, ... Their great rivals were the material or occupational theorists led by the ethnographer and folklorist William Crooke ( 1848 – 1923 ), author of one of the most widely read provincial Castes and Tribes surveys, and such other influential scholar-officials as Denzil Ibbetson and E. A. H. Blunt.

Eureka ( 1848 ) is a lengthy non-fiction work by American author Edgar Allan Poe which he subtitled " A Prose Poem ", though it has also been subtitled as " An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe ".

Allan Cameron ( Venice, 1848 ) is noteworthy because it deals with the youth of King Charles II, before he was crowned King of England.

His mother Mrs. Leah Tyrer Allan, the daughter of Dr. John Gamble, died at Toronto, October I7th, 1848, aged 58.

As Poe wrote in a letter in 1848, it " made a great noise.

Another friend of Poe, Henry B. Hirst, suggested in the January 22, 1848, issue of the Saturday Courier that Poe had found the " leading idea " of the poem in a work by Thomas Buchanan Read.

Poe is believed to have written " The Bells " in May 1848 and submitted it three times to Sartrain's Union Magazine, a magazine run by John Sartain, until it was finally accepted.

His first job at age 13 in 1848 was as a bobbin boy, changing spools of thread in a cotton mill 12 hours a day, 6 days a week in a Pittsburgh cotton factory.

Her second and last novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, which is considered to be one of the first sustained feminist novels, appeared in 1848.

In 1903, Bartók wrote his first major orchestral work, Kossuth, a symphonic poem which honored Lajos Kossuth, hero of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.

In February 1848 it was decided that Prince Albert would acquire the remaining part of the lease on Balmoral, together with its furniture and staff, and the couple arrived for their first visit on 8 September 1848.

The first two, in 1848 and 1849, failed before departure due to US opposition.

Cuba built the first railway system in the Spanish empire, before the 1848 start in the Iberian peninsula.

Chicago's first railway, Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, opened in 1848, which also marked the opening of the Illinois and Michigan Canal.

The Christadelphian community in Britain effectively dates from Thomas's first lecturing tour ( May 1848 – October 1850 ).

Eureka: A Prose Poem, an essay written in 1848, included a cosmological theory that presaged the Big Bang theory by 80 years, as well as the first plausible solution to Olbers ' paradox.

George Dragas, and the 1848 Encyclical of the Eastern Patriarchs ( which refers explicitly to the " Eighth Ecumenical Council " and was signed by the patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, Antioch, and Alexandria as well as the Holy Synods of the first three ), regard other synods beyond the Seventh Ecumenical Council as being ecumenical.

In 1848, Douglass was the only African American to attend the first women's rights convention, the Seneca Falls Convention.

* 1848 – California Gold Rush: The first ship with Chinese immigrants arrives in San Francisco, California.

George Stephenson ( 9 June 1781 – 12 August 1848 ) was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer who built the first public railway line in the world to use steam locomotives.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, institutionalisation of the word became complete with its first appearance in a dictionary ( 1848 ) and first appearance in an encyclopedia ( 1868 ).

Several important institutional changes took place in this period, such as free and mandatory schooling introduced 1842 ( as first country in the world ), the abolishment of a previous national monopoly on trade in handicrafts in 1846, and a stock company law in 1848.

John Jacob Astor ( born Johann Jakob Astor ; July 17, 1763 – March 29, 1848 ) was a German-American business magnate, merchant and investor who was the first prominent member of the Astor family and the first multi-millionaire in the United States.

* 1848 – Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of the independent African Liberia.

In 1848 Senator Davis introduced the first of several proposed amendments to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ; this one would annex most of northeastern Mexico and failed with a vote of 44 to 11.

In 1847 his first Salon success came with the exhibition of a painting Oedipus Taken down from the Tree, and in 1848 his Winnower was bought by the government.

The first edition of The Manifesto of the Communist Party, published in German in 1848

He saw ‘ anarchic initiative ,’ ‘ reasoned will ’ and ‘ the autonomy of each ’ as the conditions for the social revolution of the proletariat, the first expression of which had been the barricades of June 1848 ( see Revolutions of 1848 ).