Its people, including Pierre Bottineau and other American Fur Company employees and the refugees from Fort Garry, were joined by the remaining Scots and Swiss from Fort Snelling when Major Joseph Plympton expelled them from the reservation in May 1840.

A declaration of independence was officially issued by Chile on February 12, 1818 and formally recognized by Spain in 1840, when full diplomatic relations were established.

The Detroit Curling Club was started in 1840 when Michigan only had a population of 212, 000 and had only been in the Union for three years.

For example, when a fire broke out in 1840, dozens of pilgrims were trampled to death.

This continued down to 1840 when the Barony of Dublin City was separated from the Barony of Dublin.

It is believed to have been extensively copied, but only one song was printed by Purcell's widow in Orpheus Britannicus, and the complete work remained in manuscript until 1840, when it was printed by the Musical Antiquarian Society under the editorship of Sir George Macfarren.

They remained there until 1840 when they accepted an invitation from the King of Prussia to move to Berlin, where they both received professorships and were elected members of the Academy of Sciences.

Mamie ( 1840 – 1926 ) had been twenty-one years old and Sis ( 1848 – 1928 ) thirteen when the Civil War began.

Ruling from 1814 until his death in 1840, Francia succeeded almost single-handedly in building a strong, prosperous, secure, and independent nation at a time when Paraguay's continued existence as a distinct country seemed unlikely.

His fortunes began to improve when John Van Voorst, the leading publisher of naturalist writing, agreed, on the recommendation of Thomas Bell, to publish his Canadian Naturalist ( 1840 ).

As long ago as 1840 a collection numbering over one thousand different cultivars, varieties and species was possible when a rosarium was planted by Loddiges nursery for Abney Park Cemetery, an early Victorian garden cemetery and arboretum in England.

Astrophotography, the photography of celestial objects, began in 1840 when John William Draper took an image of the Moon using the daguerreotype process.

Composition of the music had begun during May-July of the previous year, 1840, when Wagner wrote Senta's Ballad, the Norwegian Sailors ' song in Act 3 (" Steersman, leave the Watch!

The leading British genre painter, Sir David Wilkie was 55 when he travelled to Istanbul and Jerusalem in 1840, dying off Gibraltar during the return voyage.

The Faculty of Engineering was formally established in 1923, although engineering had been taught at the University since 1840 when Queen Victoria founded the UK's first Chair of Engineering.

On 20 January 1569, Coverdale died in London and was buried in St. Bartholomew's by the Exchange ; when that church was demolished in 1840 to make way for the new Royal Exchange, his remains were moved to St. Magnus.

Upper Canada ceased to be a political entity with the Act of Union ( 1840 ), when, by an act of the British Parliament, it was merged with Lower Canada to form the united Province of Canada.

The modern penny whistle is indigenous to the British Isles particularly England when factory-made " tin whistles " were produced by Robert Clarke from ( 1840 – 1882 ) in Manchester and later New Moston, England.

Her mother Fanny separated from her father Henry in 1840, when Mary was five.

Thomas Fitzpatrick was often hired as a guide when the fur trade dwindled in 1840.

Nevertheless, in 1840, a lecturer at the Royal College of Physicians would still state that " blood-letting is a remedy which, when judiciously employed, it is hardly possible to estimate too highly ", and Louis was dogged by the sanguinary Broussais, who could recommend leeches fifty at a time.

In 1840, when a new revision was made necessary by the independence of Belgium, a first step to a more parliamentary system was taken by the introduction of penal ministerial responsibility.

The Rhein University was thus nameless until 1840, when the new King of Prussia, Frederick William IV gave it the official name Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität.

During 1842 in response to the blue book published by Villiers ' 1840 Committee on Import Duties, Peel gave the concession of modifying the sliding scale by reducing the maximum duty to 20 shillings when the price decreased to 51 shillings or less.

In 1840, White County became a destination for people from all over the country when Christopher Haufmann erected a large hotel on Bon Air Mountain, part of the Cumberland Plateau.

The 1840s decade ran from January 1, 1840, to December 31, 1849.

Over the next decade, additional species were added by Bertoloni ( 1840 ), Martius ( 1841 ), and Liebmann ( 1851 ).

By 1840 Independence Township's population was 830, but a decade later new construction had boosted the township's population to 1, 200.

About a decade earlier, French claims to the left bank of the Rhine ( Rhine Crisis of 1840 ) had triggered a series of German Rhine songs of which Die Wacht am Rhein is the most famous.

This was part of a larger movement of thousands of Jews from countries as widely spaced as Persia and Morocco, Yemen and Russia, who moved to Israel beginning in the first decade of the nineteenth century – and in even larger numbers after the conquest of the region by Muhammad Ali of Egypt in 1832 – all drawn by the expectation of the arrival of the Messiah in the Jewish year 5600, Christian year 1840, a movement documented in Arie Morgenstern's Hastening Redemption.

The substantial redevelopment of the castle in the subsequent decade and Queen Victoria's residence from 1840, as well as the coming of two railways in 1849, signalled the most dramatic changes in the town's history.

Over the following decade, he published a large number of works, including essays and articles, his first editions of the Moldavian chroniclers, as well as other books and articles, while founding a succession of short-lived periodicals: Alăuta Românească ( 1838 ), Foaea Sătească a Prinţipatului Moldovei ( 1839 ), Dacia Literară ( 1840 ), Arhiva Românească ( 1840 ), Calendar pentru Poporul Românesc ( 1842 ), Propăşirea ( renamed Foaie Ştiinţifică şi Literară, 1843 ), and several almanacs.

As opposed to Europe, despite its use by a few medical practitioners during the decade 1840 – 1850, no school of mesmerism was established in America.

George Mifflin Bache ( November 12, 1840 – February 11, 1896 ) was an officer in the United States Navy, fighting on the Union side in the American Civil War and continuing to serve for a decade after the war's end.

He was appointed as a U. S. Navy midshipman in 1828, served in the sloops of war and during the next decade, and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in 1840.

In 1840 Rimmer made a tour of New England painting portraits, he lived in Randolph, Massachusetts, in 1845 – 1855 as a shoemaker, for the last years of the decade practising medicine ; practised in East Chelsea, Massachusetts and received a diploma from the Suffolk County Medical Society and in 1855 removed to East Milton, Massachusetts where he supplemented his income by carving busts from blocks of granite.

Between 1790 and 1840, Cambridge began to grow rapidly, with the construction of the West Boston Bridge in 1792, that connected Cambridge directly to Boston, making it no longer necessary to travel eight miles ( 13 km ) through the Boston Neck, Roxbury, and Brookline to cross the Charles River.

Grimm then began a third edition, of which only one part, comprising the vowels, appeared in 1840, his time being afterwards taken up mainly by the dictionary.

In 1840 Gladstone began to rescue and rehabilitate London prostitutes, walking the streets of London himself and encouraging the women he encountered to change their ways.

From around 1800 to 1840 the Danish speaking population on the Angeln peninsula between Schleswig and Flensburg began to switch to Low German and in the same period many North Frisians also switched to Low German.

The fur trade business wound down to a very low level just as the Oregon trail traffic seriously began around 1840.

In the Russian Empire by 1840 the superior term, Μικρά Ρωσία, Little Rus, Rus Minora for Ruthenians become degradative and they began calling themselves Ukrainians for Ukrayina.

Starting around 1840, German Catholics began settling around New Offenburg and Zell, and shortly after German Lutherans began spreading into Ste.

European settlement and farming in the district began about 1840 leading to the rapid displacement of the Aboriginal inhabitants.

Construction began in May 1840 and was complete by the summer of 1842.

Speculators began purchasing land in 1835 and actual settlement began by 1840.

The settlement of this location began in about 1840.

The first white settlers began arriving in the area before 1840.

European-American settlement began in the 1830s with the town being platted in 1840.

It began before 1840 and was used by both Union and Confederate soldiers to bury their dead.

The riverbed region of Keene soon became the location of the first community, and the town began to grow, with Keene Flats becoming a community by 1840.

The history of Pensacola began about 1840, with the establishment of a way station on the old Texas Road at the Cabin Creek Crossing of the Grand River.

On a trip to France in 1837 he heard the quadrille and began to compose them himself, becoming largely responsible for introducing that dance to Austria in the 1840 Fasching, where it became very popular.

Work on the actual building began with the laying of a foundation stone on 27 April 1840 by Barry's wife Sarah near the north-east corner of the building.

Discussions between King's College London ( which had trained medical students since it was established and founded its own hospital, King's College Hospital, in 1840 ) and UMDS regarding a further merger began in 1992.

In 1840 he began to receive orders from the newly-opened railways which were beginning to cover the country, for locomotives.