Work was also progressing on the northern half of the West Wing ( The Egyptian Sculpture Gallery ) 1826 – 1831, with Montagu House demolished in 1842 to make room for the final part of the West Wing, completed in 1846, and the South Wing with its great colonnade, initiated in 1843 and completed in 1847, when the Front Hall and Great Staircase were opened to the public.

Greenwich Mean Time was adopted across the island of Great Britain by the Railway Clearing House in 1847, and by almost all railway companies by the following year, from which the term " railway time " is derived.

There have been Irish settlers in New Brunswick since at least the late 18th century, but during the peak of the Great Irish Famine ( 1845 – 1847 ), thousands of Irish emigrated through Partridge Island in the port of Saint John.

According to his The New York Times obituary published on April 3, 1872, Morse received respectively the decoration of the Atiq Nishan-i-Iftikhar ( English: Order of Glory ) medal on wearer's right depicted in photo of Morse with medals, set in diamonds, from the Sultan Ahmad I ibn Mustafa of Turkey ( c. 1847 ), a golden snuff box containing the Prussian gold medal for scientific merit from the King of Prussia ( 1851 ); the Great Gold Medal of Arts and Sciences from the King of Württemberg ( 1852 ); and the Great Golden Medal of Science and Arts from Emperor of Austria ( 1855 ); a cross of Chevalier in the Légion d ' honneur from the Emperor of France ; the Cross of a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog from the King of Denmark ( 1856 ); the Cross of Knight Commander of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, from the Queen of Spain, besides being elected member of innumerable scientific and art societies in this States and other countries.

When the Mormons arrived in the valley of the Great Salt Lake in 1847, the Great Basin was still a part of Mexico and had no secular government.

Her body was transferred to Rouen Cathedral in 1847 ; her epitaph reads: " Great by Birth, Greater by Marriage, Greatest in her Offspring: Here lies Matilda, the daughter, wife, and mother of Henry.

His report of the area included a discussion of Mormon religious practices based on Stansbury's interaction with the Mormon community in Great Salt Lake City, which had been established three years earlier in 1847.

The Great Salt Lake lends its name to Salt Lake City, originally named " Great Salt Lake City " by the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( known as the Mormon or LDS Church ) Brigham Young, who led a group of Mormon pioneers to the Salt Lake Valley southeast of the lake on July 24, 1847.

Boone County was formed in 1847 from parts of Kanawha, Cabell, and Logan Counties and named for Daniel Boone, noted hunter and explorer, whose home was in the Great Kanawha Valley from 1789 to 1795.

A railway works and depot for engines and rolling stock was established by Great Eastern in 1847 to the north of Stratford.

The Kingston General Hospital site also held the remains of 1, 400 Irish immigrants who had died in Kingston in fever sheds along the waterfront, during the typhus epidemic of 1847, while fleeing the Great Famine.

* Marcus Whitman ( 1802 – 1847 ), missionary physician who in 1843 convinced President Tyler that Oregon, and what is now the state of Washington, should be secured for the United States not Great Britain.

Among the most prominent of the native sons of Aurelius were inventor Birdsill Holley and Miriam Angeline Works, first wife of Brigham Young, who led the " Latter-Day Saints " into the Great Salt Lake Valley in 1847.

Although a bill for running the line from Hitchin into Kings Cross, jointly with the Great Northern Railway, was passed in 1847 it had not been proceeded with.

The station was renamed London Road in 1847, around the time the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, which became the Great Central Railway, was formed.

At the same time the great push west along the newly opened Oregon Trail built up from a trickle of settlers in 1841 to a steady stream in 1844 – 1846, and then became a flood as the highly organized Mormon migration exploited the road to the Great Salt Lake discovered by mountain man Jim Bridger in 1847 – 1848.

In 1847, Gull was elected Fullerian Professor of Physiology at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, a post which he held for two years, during which time he formed a close friendship with Michael Faraday, at that time Fullerian Professor of Chemistry.

The SA & MR was amalgamated with the Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction Railway, the Great Grimsby & Sheffield Railway, and the Grimsby Docks Company in 1847 to form the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway ( MS & LR ).

* John Campbell, 7th Duke of Argyll ( 1777 – 1847 ), Scottish MP for Argyllshire 1799 – 1820, Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland

In 1847, the Great Britain became the first iron-hulled screw-driven ship to cross the Atlantic.

He was a member of the first pioneer company of Latter-day Saints to arrive in Utah's Great Basin in 1847.

He was the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) from 1847 until his death in 1877, he founded Salt Lake City, and he served as the first governor of the Utah Territory, United States.

* 1847 – After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City.

The choir was founded in August 1847, one month after the Mormon pioneers entered the Salt Lake Valley.

People from three cities in the south of Davis County, Utah come together to commemorate the first group of Mormon Pioneers ’ entry into the Salt Lake Valley on July 24, 1847.

On July 29, 1847 a group of Mormon pioneers ( members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ) known as the Mississippi Company, among them John Holladay of Alabama, entered the Salt Lake Valley.

The Mormon pioneers came into the Salt Lake Valley in 1847.

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

West Jordan received its name from Mormon settlers who entered the Salt Lake Valley in 1847 under the leadership of their prophet, Brigham Young.

He also was in the discovery party of nine riders that first rode on horseback into the Salt Lake Valley in July 1847.

Salt was Chief Constable of Bradford before its incorporation as a borough in 1847, and afterwards a senior alderman.

The Mormon settlement of Utah began in July 1847, when pioneers entered the Salt Lake Valley.

The name " Federal Heights " originates from the period between the Mormon settlers ' establishment of Salt Lake City in 1847 and Utah's admittance to the United States as a state in 1896.

She traveled west across the plains and arrived in the Salt Lake Valley on 2 October 1847.

* 1847, participated in Vanguard company's exploration of the Mormon Trail to the Salt Lake Valley.

The first stake established in Utah was the Salt Lake Stake, established October 3, 1847 with John Smith as president.

In 1847, Cyrus Cahoon planted a crop of " Early Black " variety near Pleasant Lake, Harwich, Massachusetts.

Located south of Portland surrounding the Oswego Lake, the town was founded in 1847 and incorporated as Oswego in 1910.

“ On a balmy day in the late summer of 1847, The Eagle, a sailing schooner northbound from Chicago, with a family of six aboard, stood off the entrance to Pere Marquette Lake.

The size was increased by part of the Town of Lake Pleasant in 1847.

Lake Pleasant was a " mother town " of the county and other towns were made, in whole or part, by removing parts of its territory: Morehouse ( 1835 ), Arietta ( 1836 ), part of Long Lake ( 1837 ), part of Hope ( 1847 ), part of Wells, ( 1858 ), and part of Indian Lake ( 1861 ).

The 1980-pipe Ferris Tracker organ, originally built in 1847 for Calvary Episcopal Church in New York City, was moved to the Round Lake Auditorium in 1888 and is considered to be the oldest and largest three-manual organ in existence.