The committee's final report, on December 30, 1907, stated, in part, that " the first scheme for playing baseball, according to the best evidence obtainable to date, was devised by Abner Doubleday at Cooperstown, New York, in 1839.

Compared to other travellers of the time, they travelled quickly — an 1839 report cites the travel time as three months and ten days — almost 26 miles ( 40 km ) per day on average.

A 1839 report says that in Livorno were no more than ten major commercial houses, all of them foreign, Greek and Jewish.

A northern newspaper carried a report that more than eighty civilians were killed by Indians in Florida in 1839.

In 1839, the Church of Scotland sent Andrew Bonar, Robert Murray M ' Cheyne, Alexander Black and Alexander Keith on a mission to report on the condition of the Jews in their land.

* 1839 – Lord Durham publishes his report on the causes of the rebellions in 1837.

The report of Durham was published in London in February 1839.

The Weller brothers of the Otago whaling station on Otago Harbour ( modern Otakou ) sent a Mr. Dalziel to inspect the Taieri Plain for a proposed Scottish settlement in 1839, but he gave an unfavourable report.

In conclusion to his 1839 Introduction to the work of reference, Pedro de Angelis noted that the report of a mercantile master returning to Montevideo from the Falklands came to the attention of the Spanish Minister, who consulted with Don Jorge Juan, head of the Department of the Navy.

On February 16, 1839, parts of memoirs of his Oregon trip were presented to the United States Congress in a report on the region.

The entrance to the harbour became blocked in 1839, and a further report was prepared by John Wright and James Walker in 1840.

A 1996 British Journal for the History of Science article cites James F. Donnelly for mentioning a 1839 reference to chemical engineering in relation to the production of sulfuric acid.

* This work in turn cites the biographies by Heeren ( 1809 ), Döring ( 1835 ) and Monnard ( 1839 ); and biographies in G. v. Wyss's Geschichte der Historiographie in der Schweiz ( Zürich, 1895 ), pp. 305 – 311, and in the Festschrift der Stadt Schaffhausen ( Schaffhausen, 1891 ), pt.

Astolphe-Louis-Léonor, Marquis de Custine ( March 18, 1790 – October 18, 1857 ) was a French aristocrat and writer who is best known for his travel writing, in particular his account of his visit to Russia in 1839 Empire of the Czar: A Journey Through Eternal Russia.

He was the author of the brief chronicle De Itinere Fratrum Minorum ad Tartaros ( On the travel of Franciscan friars to the Tatars ), published only in the 1839 in France ( and a year later in Poland ) and a longer work Historia Tartarorum ( The history of the Tatars ), discovered and published only in 1965 by the academics of Yale University.

His health, undermined by his constant labours, broke down in 1839 and he was ordered to travel.

Fallmerayer soon after left the country again on account of political troubles, and spent the greater part of the next four years in travel, spending the winter of 1839 – 1840 with Count Tolstoy at Geneva.

William John Loftie ( 25 July 1839, Tandragee, County Armagh, Northern Ireland – 16 June 1911 ) was a British clergyman and writer, on the history of London, travel, art and architecture.

One of the persistent myths of baseball history is that Doubleday invented the game in 1839, although he was in West Point at the time.

The third pandemic erupted in 1839, persisted until 1856, extended to North Africa, and reached South America, for the first time specifically infringing upon Brazil.

Levinge, a British Army officer who had been in New Brunswick during Campbell ’ s time, provides a written account of " hockey on ice " on Chippewa Creek a tributary of the Niagara River in 1839.

" As time passed, Anning's confidence in her knowledge grew, and in 1839 she wrote to the Magazine of Natural History to question the claim made in an article, that a recently discovered fossil of the prehistoric shark Hybodus represented a new genus, as an error since she had discovered the existence of fossil sharks with both straight and hooked teeth many years ago.

In May 1839, he was offered another chance to form a government, this time by the new monarch, Queen Victoria.

* New Zealand-The only person to have held the rank of Lieutenant Governor of New Zealand was Royal Navy Captain William Hobson from 1839 – 1841 when New Zealand colony was a dependency of the colony of New South Wales, governed at that time by Sir George Gipps.

* 1839 Canadian inventors James Eliot and Alexander McAvity of Saint John, New Brunswick patent an " oxygen reservoir for divers ", a device carried on the diver's back containing " a quantity of condensed oxygen gas or common atmospheric air proportionate to the depth of water and adequate to the time he is intended to remain below ".

During the Carlist Wars ( 1833 – 1839 and 1872 – 1876 ) Pamplona was each time controlled by the liberals, not just because the few liberals that lived in Navarre were mainly Pamplonese, but because of the governmental control over the fortified city.

At the end of the 1838 whaling season Langlois left New Zealand waters, and on arriving in France some time after June 1839, set to work to market the property which he had bought from the Māori.

The reason why the Aube sailed ahead of the Comte-de-Paris was to ‘ gain time for fear the British might get the start of them ’ Yet the New Zealand Company's survey ship Tory had sailed from Plymouth on 12 May 1839, before Langlois and his associates had made their first approach to the French government, and as early as June the British Government was considering sending Captain William Hobson to act as Lieutenant-Governor over such parts of New Zealand as might be acquired from the Māori.

Over time the first three runnings of the event were quickly forgotten to secure the 1839 race its place in history as the first official Grand National.

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In April 1839, United States soldiers held talks with a group of Seminoles on an over-night excursion somewhere near Lake Lillian, which was called Nine Mile Pond at the time.

The establishment of Davenport as a political and government unit came in 1839, three years after the city was settled.

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Germany, three pioneer physical educators – Johann Friedrich GutsMuths ( 1759 – 1839 ) and Friedrich Ludwig Jahn ( 1778 – 1852 ) – created exercises for boys and young men on apparatus they had designed that ultimately led to what is considered modern gymnastics.

The production by Milan's La Scala of his first opera, Oberto in November 1839 achieved a degree of success, after which Bartolomeo Merelli, La Scala's impresario, offered Verdi a contract for three more works.

The three years after Albany Academy ( 1837 to 1840 ) were mostly occupied with teaching school, except for the voyage to Liverpool in 1839.

Hence, William Hallowes Miller in 1839 was able to give each face a unique label of three small integers, the Miller indices which are still used today for identifying crystal faces.

Roméo et Juliette was premiered in a series of three concerts later in 1839 to distinguished audiences, one including Richard Wagner.

Giuseppe had three brothers and six sisters: Giuseppe Sarto, 1834 ( died after six days ); Angelo Sarto, 1837 – 1916 ; Teresa Parolin-Sarto, 1839 – 1920 ; Rosa Sarto, 1841 – 1913 ; Antonia Dei Bei-Sarto, 1843 – 1917 ; Maria Sarto, 1846 – 1930 ; Lucia Boschin-Sarto, 1848 – 1924 ; Anna Sarto, 1850 – 1926 ; Pietro Sarto, 1852 ( died after six months ).

In 1838 and 1839 three significant events occurred to transform the Liverpool race from a small local affair to a national event.

In 1839, while reflecting on his visit to the United States, Louis Philippe explained in a letter to Guizot that his three years there had a large influence on his later political beliefs and judgments when he became king.

Robert Schumann, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber, in 1839, three years before the composition of his piano quintet.

The county was divided three years later in 1839, when Lee County was formed.

Admiral Dahlgren had three sons from his first marriage to Mary Bunker ( 1839 ).

In 1839, the Putnams sold their land to Oswald B., James M., and Horace B. Williams, three brothers from Batavia, New York.

By 1839, there were three schools.

William married his cousin Sophie of Württemberg in 1839 and they had three sons, William, Maurice, and Alexander.

Without making serious practice of the law he settled at Basford, and for three years was occupied with the composition of Festus, which appeared anonymously in 1839.

In the three years preceding September 1839, the railway transported an average of 30, 000 people each year.

The design changed considerably from what went before — the obverse bears the left-facing portrait of Queen Victoria, with the inscription, while the reverse bears a crown above the words with ( 1839 ) a rose with three leaves at the bottom of the coin, or ( 1842 and later ) a rose, thistle, and shamrock.

He himself had previously discovered three comets in the short span from 2 December 1839 to 6 March 1840.

Jack Sheppard was published in a three volume edition by Bentley in October 1839, and 8 different theatrical versions of the story were produced in autumn 1839.

After the completion of his university studies at Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel, the University of Leipzig and Humboldt University, Berlin, he travelled for three years in France and Italy ; in 1839 he became Privatdozent at Kiel, and in 1842 professor-extraordinary of archaeology and philology at the University of Greifswald ( ordinary professor 1845 ).