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* 1854 – The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin.
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He returned to politics to oppose the pro-slavery Kansas – Nebraska Act ( 1854 ); this law repealed the slavery-restricting Missouri Compromise ( 1820 ).
E. B. Tylor ( 2 October 1832 – 2 January 1917 ) and James George Frazer ( 1 January 1854 – 7 May 1941 ) are generally considered the antecedents to modern social anthropology in Britain.
* 1854 – Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden.
* 1854 – Charles Dickens ' Hard Times begins serialisation in his magazine, Household Words.
Arthur Aikin FGS ( 19 May 1773 – 15 April 1854 ) was an English chemist, mineralogist and scientific writer.
* George Finlay ( 1854 ), History of the Byzantine and Greek Empires from 1057 – 1453, Volume 2, William Blackwood & Sons
* 1854 – Moritz Moszkowski, Polish-German composer ( d. 1925 )
* 1773 – Jean-Baptiste de Villèle, French statesman ( d. 1854 )
* 1929 – Aletta Jacobs, Dutch physician ( b. 1854 )
* 1854 – The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships.
* 1854 – William Stang, German prelate and Bishop ( d. 1907 )
* Jean-Baptiste Muard ( 1809 – 1854 )
In 1846 Robert Smirke was replaced as the Museum's architect by his brother Sydney Smirke, whose major addition was the Round Reading Room 1854 – 1857 ; at in diameter it was then the second widest dome in the world, the Pantheon in Rome being slightly wider.
Layard's work was continued by his assistant, Hormuzd Rassam and in 1852 – 1854 he went on to discover the North Palace of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh with many magnificent reliefs, including the famous Royal Lion Hunt scenes.
#* Zénaïde Laetitia Julie Bonaparte ( 1801 – 1854 )
#** Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte ( 1803 – 1857 ), ornithologist and politician married Princess Zénaïde Bonaparte ( 1801 – 1854 )
The " Orange " in Orange Free State ( 1854 – 1902 ) was named after the Protestant House of Orange in the Netherlands.
* Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900 ), author and playwright ( educated in Portora Royal School )
* Pope Cyril IV of Alexandria reigned 1854 – 1861
C. D. Yonge, London, H. G. Bohn, 1854 – 1890 ):
One of the major contributions to fighting cholera was made by the physician and pioneer medical scientist John Snow ( 1813 – 1858 ), who in 1854 found a link between cholera and contaminated drinking water.
* 1854 – In his Apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus, Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogmatic definition of Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Virgin Mary was born free of original sin.
* 1854 – Eureka Stockade: In what is claimed by many to be the birth of Australian democracy, more than 20 gold miners at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences.
1854 and Republican
* 1854 – In Jackson, Michigan, the first convention of the United States Republican Party is held.
Undisputed is the fact that the first official meeting of the group that actually called itself " Republican " was held in Jackson under the Oaks on July 6, 1854.
The Whig Party's 1852 convention in New York City saw the historic meeting between Alvan E. Bovay and The New York Tribune's Horace Greeley, a meeting which led to correspondence between the men as the early Republican Party meetings in 1854 began to take place.
In 1854, he was elected a Republican to the United States House of Representatives for Ohio's thirteenth district where he was the Republican candidate for Speaker in the long contest of 1859 – 60 and served as chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means from 1860 to 1861.
The " Free Soil " Party of 1848 – 52 and the new Republican Party after 1854 demanded that the new lands opening up in the west be made available to independent farmers, rather than wealthy planters who would develop it with slaves, and force yeomen farmers onto marginal lands.
The new Republican Party, born in the Midwest ( Ripon, Wisconsin, 1854 ) and created in opposition to the Act, aimed to stop the expansion of slavery and soon emerged as the dominant force throughout the North.
In 1854, it became Fremont after General John C. Fremont, the first candidate of the Republican Party in the presidential election of 1856.
John Addams was a founding member of the Illinois Republican Party, served as an Illinois State Senator ( 1855 – 70 ), and supported his friend Abraham Lincoln in his candidacies, for senator ( 1854 ) and the presidency ( 1860 ).
His opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 led him to leave the Democratic Party to become a member of the new Republican Party.
When the new Republican Party was founded in 1854, Greeley made the Tribune its unofficial national organ, and fought slavery extension and the slave power on many pages.
" The Appeal of the Independent Democrats in Congress to the People of the United States ", written by Chase and Giddings, and published in the New York Times on January 24, 1854, may be regarded as the earliest draft of the Republican party creed.
The party membership was largely absorbed by the Republican Party in 1854.
However, two years later, after enormous outrage over the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, the remains of the Free Soil Party helped form the Republican Party.
In Ottawa, Illinois, in August 1854, an alliance was brokered between the Free Soil Party and the Whigs ( in part based on the efforts of local newspaper publisher Jonathan F. Linton ) that gave rise to the Republican Party.
Founded in 1854 by Northern anti-slavery expansion activists and modernizers, the Republican Party rose to prominence with the election of Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican to campaign on the Northern principles of anti-slavery.
* Benjamin Barker Odell, Jr. ( 1854 – 1926 ), Republican member of the U. S. House of Representatives ( March 4, 1895-March 4, 1899 ) and Governor of New York State ( 1900 – 1904 ).
Meeting at a school house in Ripon on February 28, 1854, some thirty opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act called for the organization of a new political party and suggested that Republican would be the most appropriate name ( to link their cause with the Declaration of Independence ).
The group also took a leading role in the creation of the Republican Party in many northern states during the summer of 1854.
The February 1854 meeting was the first political meeting of the group that would become the Republican Party.
The first mass meeting by a group that called itself " Republican " took place July 6, 1854 in Jackson, Michigan, with David S. Walbridge presiding, and in June Edwin Hurlbut called the second on July 13, 1854 in Madison, Wisconsin.
He settled in Hartford and was assistant-secretary of state of Connecticut in 1847-1852, Connecticut state librarian in 1854, assistant-secretary again in 1858-1861, and ( Republican ) Secretary of the State in 1861-1866.
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