Also in 1847, another of Joule's presentations at the British Association in Oxford was attended by George Gabriel Stokes, Michael Faraday, and the precocious and maverick William Thomson, later to become Lord Kelvin, who had just been appointed professor of natural philosophy at the University of Glasgow.

A country resort called the Orange Mountain House was established in 1847 just north of town.

On 6th February 1847 Lumsden wrote to his father: ".. I have just been nominated to raise the corps of Guides.

The Queen Victoria " Gothic " crown of 1847 ( mintage just 8, 000 and produced to celebrate the Gothic revival ) is considered by many to be the most beautiful British coin ever minted.

" The Second Mississippi Infantry headed off towards the United States – Mexico border in February and reached the mouth of the Rio Grande on February 24, 1847, just a day after the Battle of Buena Vista.

Borland was taken as a prisoner of war by the Mexican army on January 23, 1847, just south of Saltillo, Coahuila.

The Gramática de la lengua castellana destinada al uso de los americanos, or Castilian Grammar Intended for the Use by Americans ( Americans referring to Castilian-or Spanish-speaking inhabitants of the Americas, not just the United States ), finished in 1847, was the first Spanish-American Grammar, with many original contributions, a product of long years of study.

John W. Geary was made a Mason at Sight on January 4, 1847 in Pennsylvania ( Philanthropy Lodge # 255 ), just before he left with his troops to fight in the Mexican War.

The mistake originated in 1922 when a flag maker misplaced the year 1847, by stitching it just above the year 1896, instead of in its correct position on the shield.

The location for the temple was first marked by Brigham Young, the prophet and second president of the church, on July 28, 1847, just four days after arriving in the Salt Lake Valley.

He died on March 17, 1847 and is buried in the Cimetière Nord of Saint-Mandé just outside Paris.

After the Donner Party's disastrous winter of 1847 in the Sierra Nevada mountains, which happened just before the news of California gold became public, a loose group arrived in October 1849 at the Great Salt Lake.

In June 1847 the first number of Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide was issued, giving the timetables of the Continental railways, just as Bradshaw's Monthly Railway Guide gave the timetables of the railways of the United Kingdom.

DD-652 was named for Rear Admiral Royal R. Ingersoll ( 1847 – 1931 ) — and for his grandson, Lieutenant Royal R. Ingersoll, II ( 1913 – 1942 ) who had died in the Battle of Midway, just weeks before the ship's christening.

He was also a member of Aztec Club of 1847, a social club formed just after the Mexican-American War by army officers.

The short 1. 25 mile ( 2. 0 km ) Newton Lower Falls Branch opened in 1847, splitting from the main line just west of Riverside to Newton Lower Falls.

A corn mill was situated on the stream now call Red River just north of the Railway stop but was demolished sometime between 1847 and 1891.

Pleased with his opera and with its reception, Verdi wrote to Antonio Barezzi, his former father-in-law and long-time supporter, on 25 March 1847 just about two weeks after the premiere: " I have long intended to dedicate an opera to you, who have been father, benefactor, and friend to me.

The London Brighton and South Coast Railway opened a station called Keymer Junction on the Lewes line, just beyond the junction, towards the end of 1854, although, it appears that some trains may have called at Keymer Crossing from the completion of the junction in 1847.

They traveled to Texas from 1843 to 1847 and settled in the Medina River valley, just west of San Antonio.

A station just to the north-west of the junction, with two platforms for each route, opened in June 1847, and was named Clifton Junction.

Ordered to march with Kearny's army back east, Frémont was arrested on August 22, 1847 when they arrived at Fort Leavenworth.

The east side of the six mile ( 10 km ) square that would become Molitor, which lies on the Fourth Principal Meridian, was first surveyed in May 1847 by a crew working for the U. S. government.

* The Southampton and Dorchester Railway and its station east of Weymouth Avenue, in 1847

In 1847 the north wall was rebuilt and the present stained glass was inserted in the 15th century east window.

He was elected as a Member of Parliament for the east London constituency of Tower Hamlets in 1841 and served until 1847.

Newhall Pass was initially named ' Fremont Pass ' for General John C. Frémont, who was thought to have passed through it in 1847 on his way to sign the Treaty of Cahuenga, but he actually went slightly east of the pass on the El Camino Viejo.

In 1747, the nave was re-roofed, but by 1847 the Priory was in a state of disrepair to the extent that the east end roof collapsed.

The Boston and Maine Railroad's Western Route main line was built through the east side of Medford in 1845, and the Medford Branch to Medford Square opened in 1847.

On July 24, 1847 143 men, three women and two children founded Great Salt Lake City several miles to the east of the Great Salt Lake, nestled in the northern most reaches of the Salt Lake Valley.

Built between 1844 and 1847, it also consisted of a smaller branch dock to the east.

In 1847, a road was surveyed through virgin forest to " Bunyeep " which enabled travellers to follow a track that led further east into Gippsland.

At Adama's death in 1847, Fulbe horsemen controlled territory from the Niger River to the west and the Logone to the east and from the Sahara to the north and the Sanaga River to the south to form the Sokoto Caliphate.

In 1847, the GWR opened the Cheltenham Loop line which completed the triangle junction east of the station.

To the east is the junction station for the SER branch line to Deal via Sandwich-itself opened on 7 July 1847.

He returned to England in 1847, and was appointed successively to the circuits of Islington, Bristol, Leeds, Penzance, Penryn, Truro and St Austell in east Cornwall.

In 1847 a parcel of land adjoining the Benicia city limits on the east was acquired for a military reserve.

Returning to Princeton, he accompanied the steamer on a two year cruise to the Mediterranean, sailing east on 17 August 1847 and returning to the Boston Navy Yard on 17 July 1849.

The Whitman massacre of 1847 triggered the Cayuse War, which saw fighting from the Cascade Range to the Rocky Mountains.

Indian Life in the Rocky Mountains: 1840 – 1847 ; The Journal and Paintings of Nicolas Point.

He was born in Framingham, Massachusetts, graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, and then Yale College in 1847, and taught at Rocky Mount, North Carolina for a year before resuming study at Yale Divinity School from 1848 to 1851.