Following the deaths of all the Cayuse children and half their adults from a measles epidemic in 1847, in which the Cayuse suspected the Whitmans ' responsibility, they killed the Whitmans and 12 other settlers in what became known as the Whitman Massacre.

More significantly, the influx of white settlers in the territory brought new infectious diseases to the Indian tribes, including a severe epidemic of measles in 1847.

In 1847 an epidemic of measles killed half the Cayuse.

A measles outbreak in 1847 killed half the local Cayuse.

During a measles epidemic in 1847, suspicion and ill feeling came to a head.

The Condorcet-O ' Connors brought out a revised edition between 1847 and 1849.

His papers on epigraphy ( collected in Commentationes epigraphicae, i vols., 1850-54 ) brought him into conflict with Theodor Mommsen in connexion with the preparation of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, a scheme for which, drawn up by Mommsen, was approved in 1847.

The completion of the Wabash and Erie Canal through the town in 1847 brought a considerable amount of growth to the area, and ended ( in Attica's favor ) a long-standing rivalry with the neighboring communities of Rob Roy, Williamsport, and Covington, Indiana.

At first the canal, completed in 1847, brought prosperity to the area.

However, the Pennsylvania Railroad brought increased traffic through the area and prompted a move of the Port Royal post office into Perrysville in 1847.

It began in 1847 when Brigham Young brought settlers through Emigration Canyon into the Salt Lake Valley.

John Henry Knight ( 1847 – 1917 ), who built the first British motor car and designed a number of innovative digging machines for use in hop fields, was born and brought up at Weybourne on the outskirts of the town.

In 1847, when he severed his connection with The Nation, he says, " I had watched the progress of the famine policy of the Government, and could see nothing in it but a machinery, deliberately devised, and skillfully worked, for the entire subjugation of the island — the slaughter of portion of the people, and the pauperization of the rest ," and he had therefore " come to the conclusion that the whole system ought to be met with resistance at every point, and the means for this would be extremely simple, namely, a combination among the people to obstruct and render impossible the transport and shipment of Irish provisions ; to refuse all aid to its removal ; to destroy the highways ; to prevent everyone, by intimidation, from daring to bid for grain and cattle if brought to auction under ' distress ' ( a method of obstruction which put an end to Church tithes before ); in short, to offer a passive resistance universally ; but occasionally, when opportunity served, to try the steel.

But in 1841 the Conservatives regained power, called in the Jesuits ( 1844 ) and so brought about the Sonderbund War ( 1847 ) in which they were defeated, the decisive battle taking place at Gisikon, not far from Lucerne.

The establishment of the California and Oregon trails, as well as the establishment of Salt Lake City in 1847 brought the Shoshone people into regular contact with white colonists moving westward.

Garden gnomes were first introduced to the United Kingdom in 1847 by Sir Charles Isham, 10th Baronet, when he brought 21 terracotta figures back from a trip to Germany and placed them as ornaments in the gardens of his home, Lamport Hall in Northamptonshire.

He also independently discovered the comet ( C / 1847 T1 ) that brought fame to Maria Mitchell as " Miss Mitchell's Comet ", two days after she did.

The translations of The Acharnians, The Knights, The Birds, and The Frogs were privately printed, and were first brought into general notice by George Cornewall Lewis in the Classical Museum for 1847.

Chinese immigration to Cuba started in 1847 when Spanish settlers brought in Cantonese contract workers to work in the sugar fields.

In 1847, at a time of great Roman Catholic revival in England, and prosperity brought by the textile mills of Lancashire, the architect, Joseph Hansom, was commissioned to build a large church.

Caussin de Perceval published ( 1828 ) a useful Grammaire arabe vulgaire, which passed through several editions ( 4th ed., 1858 ), and edited and enlarged Élie Bocthor's Dictionnaire français-arabe ( 2 vols., 1828 ; 3rd ed., 1864 ); but his great reputation rests almost entirely on one book, the Essai sur l ' histoire des Arabes avant l ' Islamisme, pendant l ' époque de Mahomet ( 3 vols., 1847 – 1849 ), in which the native traditions as to the early history of the Arabs, down to the death of Muhammad and the complete subjection of all the tribes to Islam, are brought together with wonderful industry and set forth with much learning and lucidity.

In addition to editing Burke's Peerage from 1847 to his death, Burke brought out several editions of a companion volume, Burke's Landed Gentry, which was first published between 1833 and 1838.

In 1846, however, he resigned ; and then accepted the wardenship of Trinity College, Glenalmond, the new Scottish Episcopal public school and divinity college, where he remained from 1847 to 1854, having great educational success in all respects ; though his views on Scottish Church questions brought him into opposition at some important points to WE Gladstone.

In the 1875 case of Phillips v. Payne the Supreme Court held that Virginia had de facto jurisdiction over the area returned by Congress in 1847, and dismissed the tax case brought by the plaintiff.

In 1847 Foster brought in a partner, RC Fleeson and the firm changed names to Foster & Fleeson.

Commodore James Biddle brought his East India Squadron to Monterey, California, on 2 January 1847 only a week after Shubrick's arrival, and assumed command.

Jimma's eventual success at conquering the Badi-Folla in 1847, reopened the trade route between Kaffa and Shewa, which merchants found was a much better route, and brought an end to Limmu-Ennarea prosperity, despite Abba Bagido's later actions.

The peace of Aarau ( 11 August 1712 ) brought more equality in religion, and thus an end to Catholic hegemony in the Swiss Confederation, staying the conflict until the renewed outbreak of civil war in 1847, the Sonderbundskrieg that led to the formation of Switzerland as a federal state.

Nobel and his parents returned to Sweden from Russia and Nobel devoted himself to the study of explosives, and especially to the safe manufacture and use of nitroglycerine ( discovered in 1847 by Ascanio Sobrero, one of his fellow students under Théophile-Jules Pelouze at the University of Turin ).

* 1847 – The accidental shooting of a Māori by an English sailor results in the opening of the Wanganui Campaign of the New Zealand land wars.

" Amazing Grace ", with the words written by Newton and joined with " New Britain ", the melody most currently associated with it, appeared for the first time in Walker's shape note tunebook Southern Harmony in 1847.

The property was wholly disencumbered in 1847 by Robert Cadell, the publisher, who cancelled the bond upon it in exchange for the family's share in the copyright of Sir Walter's works.

Several of Alexander's works were published in the Aldine edition of Aristotle, Venice, 1495 – 1498 ; his De Fato and De Anima were printed along with the works of Themistius at Venice ( 1534 ); the former work, which has been translated into Latin by Grotius and also by Schulthess, was edited by J. C. Orelli, Zürich, 1824 ; and his commentaries on the Metaphysica by H. Bonitz, Berlin, 1847.

** edited by Leonhard von Spengel, with commentary in Latin, Leipzig, 1847 ( online )

From 1847 he was engaged in editing the Handwörterbuch der reinen und angewandten Chemie ( Dictionary of Pure and Applied Chemistry ) edited by Justus von Liebig, Wöhler, and Johann Christian Poggendorff, and he also wrote an important textbook.

The Habsburgs founded a number of monasteries ( with some structures enduring, e. g., in Wettingen and Muri ), the closing of which by the government in 1841 was a contributing factor to the outbreak of the Swiss civil war – the " Sonderbund War " – in 1847.

Ironworks were established at Llwydcoed and Abernant in 1799 and 1800 respectively, followed by others at Gadlys and Aberaman in 1827 and 1847.

Stone 1847 – 1938: Designer and Silversmith " by Elenita C. Chickering, 1994, Boston Athenaeum

In 1847, Paul Kane reported stories by the native people about skoocooms: a race of cannibalistic wild men living on the peak of Mount St. Helens.

George French Angus may have collected a description of a bunyip in his account of a " water spirit " from the Moorundi people of the Murray River before 1847, stating it is " much dreaded by them … It inhabits the Murray ; but … they have some difficulty describing it.

Nearly five decades later the battle was among the actions recognised by a clasp attached to the Naval General Service Medal, awarded upon application to all British participants still living in 1847.

They returned in 1844 to stay at Blair Castle, and in 1847 when they rented Ardverikie by Loch Laggan.

Years later, in 1847, the Chilean government entrusted the young poet Eusebio Lillo with a new text that would replace the anti-Spain poem of Vera y Pintado, and after being analyzed by Andrés Bello, retained the original chorus (" Dulce patria, recibe los votos ...").

In the celebrations marking the return of democracy in March 1990 at Santiago's Estadio Nacional de Chile, the anthem was played in its present melody, raised to F Major ( the Royal Musical Official Version of the anthem ) which is the original melody of the second anthem by Carnicer, but using the 1847 lyrics as text, save for the original chorus.

Charlotte responded by finishing and sending a second manuscript in August 1847, and six weeks later Jane Eyre: An Autobiography, was published.

Women of the Harem by Jules Laurens, circa 1847

This led to the first British chocolate bar in 1847, followed in 1849 by the Cadbury brothers.

CUNY's history dates back to the formation of the Free Academy in 1847 by Townsend Harris.

** Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ( 1847 )

** The Mountain Wreath by Petar II Petrović-Njegoš ( 1847 )