Around 250 BC, Archimedes was commissioned by the king to find a way to check the purity of the gold in a crown, leading to the famous bath-house shouting of " Eureka!

The Eureka Rebellion of 1854 was a historically significant organised rebellion of gold miners of Ballarat against British colonial authority.

The Battle of Eureka Stockade ( by which the rebellion is popularly known ) was fought between miners and the Colonial forces of Australia on 3 December 1854 at Eureka Lead and named for the stockade structure erected by miners during the conflict.

On 6 October 1854, Scottish miner James Scobie was murdered at the Eureka hotel.

The village of Eureka was platted in 1858 along the route of the Pacific Railroad.

" Thus, Eureka was founded.

In 1985 it was annexed by the city of Eureka.

For these efforts, he was awarded the Otto Hahn Peace Medal in 1989, the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990 and the Harvey Prize in 1992 as well as Honorary Doctorates from University of Calgary in 1993, Durham University in 1995, Trinity College in 2002 and University of Münster in 2005, and Eureka College in 2009.

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:

Illustrating the historic importance Labor assigns to the changes, in a speech to a conference celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Eureka Stockade, Bracks said it was " another victory for the aspirations of Eureka ", and has described the changes as " his proudest achievement ".

In 1994, the monument was redesignated as Death Valley National Park, as well as being substantially expanded to include Saline and Eureka Valleys.

* Eureka ( Jim O ' Rourke album ), whose title track was featured in the 2000 film

In 1854 there was an armed rebellion against the government of Victoria by miners protesting against mining taxes ( the " Eureka Stockade ").

Some of French's compositions were used in the band's work, but the group's singer was Sam Galpin and the role of keyboardist was eventually taken by John Thomas, who had shared a house with French in Eureka at the time.

The Tehran Conference ( codenamed Eureka ) was a strategy meeting held between Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill from 28 November to 1 December 1943.

The neighborhood now known as the Castro was created in 1887 when the Market Street Railway Company built a line linking Eureka Valley to downtown.

The center of the village was nearly parallel to Biddle Avenue between Oak and Eureka streets near the river and its sandy beach, which was a welcome feature to the local tribesmen, as their main mode of transportation to the fort in Detroit was by birch bark canoe.

) He would also go on to found the Wyandotte Savings Bank in 1871, which was housed in the Main Office building of the Eureka Iron Works ( which still stands at the southwest corner of Biddle and Elm ; though greatly remodelled it remains the oldest building in the city today ).

There were no roads and the nearest railroad station was in Eureka, South Dakota ( away ).

On February 14, 1880, Eureka Springs was incorporated as a city.

Sand Fork was incorporated in 1903 as Layopolis, named for William R. Lay, an employee of the Eureka Pipe Line Company, which operated in oil fields in the area.

Eureka is a city located in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States, between St. Louis and Pacific, Missouri, along Interstate 44.

" Knowing how Don Rosa like to play a gag, it is likely that this city would be Eureka, California ( Eureka meaning ' I found it '!).

John S. Van Alstyne, General Manager for Eber Ward of both the Eureka Iron & Steel Works and the associated Wyandotte Rolling Mills, laid out the master plan for the city.

Its county seat and most populous city is Eureka.

The city of Eureka is considered governmentally independent and is excluded from the census figures for the townships.

Eureka Springs is a city in Carroll County, Arkansas.

The entire city is on the National Register of Historic Places as the Eureka Springs Historic District, and a popular tourist destination.

Within a short time in the late nineteenth century, Eureka Springs was transformed into a flourishing city, spa, and tourist destination.

In 1881, Eureka Springs enjoyed the status of Arkansas's fourth largest city, and in 1889 it was the second largest city, behind Little Rock.

After his term as a Reconstruction governor, Powell Clayton moved to the heavily Unionist Eureka Springs and began promoting the city and its commercial interests.

In 1882, the Eureka Improvement Company was formed to attract a railroad to the city.

A deepwater port is located roughly to the south, across the bay from the city of Eureka.

The city of Greenville is within the township, and the Greenville post office, with ZIP code 48838, also serves all of Eureka Township.

Eureka is a city in Navarro County, Texas, United States.

Eureka is a city in Juab County, Utah, United States.

Incorporated as a city in 1892, Eureka became the financial center for the Tintic Mining District, a wealthy gold and silver mining area in Utah and Juab counties.

Access to the Meramec River, through the Pacific Palisades conservation area, is located east of the city next to Eureka on the north side.

The city is located directly west from Eureka and east of Gray Summit.

Traffic flow is limited – one main north access through Castro Street to Eureka Valley, one main west access up Clipper Street toward the former Twin Peaks toll plaza and west of the city, several east accesses to the Mission District through 24th, Cesar Chavez and other numbered streets, and the main north – south Church Street access used by the J Church Muni Light Rail.

A stylized version of Crux appears on the Australian Eureka Flag.

Shortly after the Hiscock's gully gold rush of 1851 following the discovery of gold at Hiscock's, 3 kilometres west of Buninyong ( now Magpie approximately 10 kilometres south of Eureka ), the newly created Victorian colonial government announced in August 1851 that it would charge a licence fee to miners on the crown land.

Ten days later, on 17 October 1854, at the Eureka Hotel between 1, 000 and 10, 000 miners gathered to protest that James Bentley, the hotel proprietor and prime suspect in Scobie's murder, had been acquitted by a corrupt magistrate.

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.

* February 26 – White settlers massacred a band of Wiyot Indians at the village of Tuluwat on Indian Island near Eureka, California.

Hauer went on to play the adventurer courting Gene Hackman's daughter ( Theresa Russell ) in Nicolas Roeg's poorly received Eureka ( 1983 ); the investigative reporter opposite John Hurt in Sam Peckinpah's The Osterman Weekend ( 1983 ); the hardened Landsknecht mercenary Martin in Flesh & Blood ( 1985 ); and the knight paired with Michelle Pfeiffer in the Medieval romance Ladyhawke ( 1985 ).

Greg Kolodziejzyk set two world records recognized by both the International Human Powered Vehicle Association and Guinness ( TM ) World Records on July 17, 2006 on a race track in Eureka, California.

He has also founded the science of hydrostatics, including the principle of the upthrust on a floating body which has led to his cry, " Eureka ".

* Eureka, Arizona, late 19th century ghost town 30 miles north of Yuma on the Colorado River

* Eureka TV, a science show that had aired on CBBC 2001 – 2005

* Eureka ( U. S. TV series ), a 2006 – 2012 series that aired on Syfy ( broadcast in the UK as A Town Called Eureka )

He has also founded the science of hydrostatics, including the principle of the upthrust on a floating body which has led to his cry, " Eureka ".

It extends down Market Street toward Church Street and on both sides of the Castro neighborhood from Church Street to Eureka Street.

Captain of the Eureka Maru and First Officer on Andromeda.

Starting in the July 23, 2010 episode, he has appeared in a recurring, guest-starring role on Eureka, playing Dr. Isaac Parrish, the head of the Non-Lethal Weapons Lab at Global Dynamics and a thorn in Fargo's side.

View from a scenic outlook on U. S. Route 62 in Arkansas | US 62 west of Eureka Springs.

Some leaders had been transported to Australia, where they spread their gospel, In 1854 Chartist demands were put forward by the miners at the Eureka Stockade on the gold fields at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.

View of Eureka Springs from atop an observation tower ; the Crescent Hotel is visible on the horizon, 2008