The Orléanists indeed continued throughout the Second Republic ( 1848 – 1852 ) and the Empire ( 1852 – 1870 ) to enjoy a marked social and literary prestige, on the strength of the wealth and capacity of some of their members, their influence in the Académie française and the ability of their organs in the press — particularly the Revue des deux mondes, the Journal des débats, and the papers directed by E. Hervé.

It must have been with some pleasure and relief that on September 12, 1848, Joseph Brown made the momentous entry in his job book, in his characteristically cryptic style, `` Lucian Sharpe came to work for me this day as an apprentice ''.

The Copenhagen Casino was a theatre, known for the use made of its hall for mass public meetings during the 1848 Revolution which made Denmark a constitutional monarchy.

For his efforts he was knighted in 1848, then made a baronet in 1864.

In Britain, John Scott Russell made an experimental study of the Doppler effect ( 1848 ).

After an initially conservative period, strong liberal sentiments arose, so that in the 1848 constitution the country was made a parliamentary democracy with a constitutional monarch.

In 1846, he attracted attention by his bitter articles against the government in Lajos Kossuth's paper, the Pesti Hírlap, and was returned as one of the Radical candidates to the diet of 1848, where his generous, impulsive nature made him one of the most thorough-going of the patriots.

This 1848 drawing of the famous Tecumseh | Chief Tecumseh was based on a sketch made in 1808.

Similar sanitation reforms, prompted by the Public Health Acts 1848 and 1869, were made in the crowded, dirty streets of the existing cities, and soap was the main product shown in the relatively new phenomenon of advertising.

In 1848, William Aspdin further improved his cement and in 1853, he moved to Germany where he was involved in cement making .. William Aspdin made what could be called meso-Portland cement ( a mix of Portland cement and hydraulic lime ).

After gold had been discovered there in 1848 thousands of prospectors, investors and businessmen made their way to the California Republic.

In 1848 he was appointed an organist in St. Florian and in 1851 this was made a regular position.

A particularly famous sea serpent sighting was made by the men and officers of HMS Daedalus in August 1848 during a voyage to Saint Helena in the South Atlantic ; the creature they saw, some long, held a peculiar maned head above the water.

In 1848 Bern was made the Federal City ( seat of the Federal Assembly ) of the new Swiss federal state.

Pads, made of cork, became available for the first time in 1841, and these were further developed following the invention of vulcanised rubber, which was also used to introduce protective gloves in 1848.

The resistance to the slave trade was growing by the mid-nineteenth century ; in one famous case in 1848, Henry " Box " Brown made history by having himself nailed into a small box and shipped from Richmond to abolitionists in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, escaping slavery.

One of the most important events of the Bábí movement was a conference held in Badasht in 1848 where the split from Islam and Islamic law was made clear.

Gerrit Smith made woman suffrage a plank in the Liberty Party ( 1840s ) | Liberty Party Party platform | platform on June 14 – 15, 1848.

The " Free Soil " Party of 1848 – 52 and the new Republican Party after 1854 demanded that the new lands opening up in the west be made available to independent farmers, rather than wealthy planters who would develop it with slaves, and force yeomen farmers onto marginal lands.

After a sojourn in Switzerland, where she waited in vain for Ludwig to join her, she made one brief excursion to France and then removed to London in late 1848.

When his nephew, Prince Louis Napoleon, became President of the French Republic in 1848, Jérôme was made governor of Les Invalides, Paris, the burial place of Napoleon I.

" The first translation by Augustin Pritchard — published anonymously by Mr. Baillière ( volume I in 1845 and volume II in 1848 ) — suffered from being hurriedly made.

The Earl of Rosse observed the nebula at Birr Castle in 1848, and referred to the object as the Crab Nebula because a drawing he made of it looked like a crab.

Wishing to retain its independence, Montferrand made three demands for independence, in 1789, 1848, and 1863.

His first job at age 13 in 1848 was as a bobbin boy, changing spools of thread in a cotton mill 12 hours a day, 6 days a week in a Pittsburgh cotton factory.

Her second and last novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, which is considered to be one of the first sustained feminist novels, appeared in 1848.

In 1903, Bartók wrote his first major orchestral work, Kossuth, a symphonic poem which honored Lajos Kossuth, hero of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.

In February 1848 it was decided that Prince Albert would acquire the remaining part of the lease on Balmoral, together with its furniture and staff, and the couple arrived for their first visit on 8 September 1848.

The first two, in 1848 and 1849, failed before departure due to US opposition.

Cuba built the first railway system in the Spanish empire, before the 1848 start in the Iberian peninsula.

Chicago's first railway, Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, opened in 1848, which also marked the opening of the Illinois and Michigan Canal.

The Christadelphian community in Britain effectively dates from Thomas's first lecturing tour ( May 1848 – October 1850 ).

Eureka: A Prose Poem, an essay written in 1848, included a cosmological theory that presaged the Big Bang theory by 80 years, as well as the first plausible solution to Olbers ' paradox.

George Dragas, and the 1848 Encyclical of the Eastern Patriarchs ( which refers explicitly to the " Eighth Ecumenical Council " and was signed by the patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, Antioch, and Alexandria as well as the Holy Synods of the first three ), regard other synods beyond the Seventh Ecumenical Council as being ecumenical.

In 1848, Douglass was the only African American to attend the first women's rights convention, the Seneca Falls Convention.

* 1848 – California Gold Rush: The first ship with Chinese immigrants arrives in San Francisco, California.

George Stephenson ( 9 June 1781 – 12 August 1848 ) was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer who built the first public railway line in the world to use steam locomotives.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, institutionalisation of the word became complete with its first appearance in a dictionary ( 1848 ) and first appearance in an encyclopedia ( 1868 ).

Several important institutional changes took place in this period, such as free and mandatory schooling introduced 1842 ( as first country in the world ), the abolishment of a previous national monopoly on trade in handicrafts in 1846, and a stock company law in 1848.

John Jacob Astor ( born Johann Jakob Astor ; July 17, 1763 – March 29, 1848 ) was a German-American business magnate, merchant and investor who was the first prominent member of the Astor family and the first multi-millionaire in the United States.

* 1848 – Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of the independent African Liberia.

In 1848 Senator Davis introduced the first of several proposed amendments to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ; this one would annex most of northeastern Mexico and failed with a vote of 44 to 11.

In 1847 his first Salon success came with the exhibition of a painting Oedipus Taken down from the Tree, and in 1848 his Winnower was bought by the government.

The first edition of The Manifesto of the Communist Party, published in German in 1848

He saw ‘ anarchic initiative ,’ ‘ reasoned will ’ and ‘ the autonomy of each ’ as the conditions for the social revolution of the proletariat, the first expression of which had been the barricades of June 1848 ( see Revolutions of 1848 ).