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In 1848, John Sutter used the set to verify the authenticity of the gold found in his mill, a discovery that would start the California Gold Rush.
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The house was quickly found to be too small, and John and William Smith were commissioned in 1848 to design new offices, cottages and other ancillary buildings.
Geneva College was founded in 1848 in Northwood, Ohio, by John Black Johnston, a minister of the RPCNA.
Irish prisoners were again sent to Bermuda in the 19th century, including participants in the ill-fated Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848 and Nationalist journalist and politician John Mitchel.
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.
John Quincy Adams ( July 11, 1767February 23, 1848 ) was the sixth president of the United States ( 1825 – 1829 ).
Collodion process | Glass collodion negative copy c. 1860 of a daguerreotype of John Quincy Adams in 1847 or 1848, attributed to Mathew Brady ( retouched )
* American President: John Quincy Adams ( 1767 – 1848 ) at the Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia
* 1848 – The ship John Wickliffe arrives at Port Chalmers carrying the first Scottish settlers for Dunedin, New Zealand.
The Palm House ( 1844 – 1848 ) was the result of cooperation between architect Decimus Burton and iron-founder Richard Turner, and continues upon the glass house design principles developed by John Claudius Loudon and Joseph Paxton.
The Oneida Community, founded by John Humphrey Noyes in Oneida, New York, was a utopian religious commune that lasted from 1848 to 1881.
The Oneida Community was a religious commune founded by John Humphrey Noyes in 1848 in Oneida, New York.
1848 and Sutter
It was in here on January 28, 1848 that James Marshall met privately with Sutter in order to show Sutter the gold that Marshall had found during the construction of Sutter's sawmill along the American River only four days earlier.
On January 24, 1848 James W. Marshall, a foreman working for Sacramento pioneer John Sutter, found shiny metal in the tailrace of a lumber mill Marshall was building for Sutter on the American River.
The Mexican government granted a large expanse of land which included the area in which Yuba City is situated to John Sutter, the same John Sutter upon whose land gold was subsequently discovered in 1848.
1848 and used
The term " Home Defence Force " was originally used to refer to the armed forces established by Lajos Kossuth and the National Defence Committee of the Revolutionary Hungarian Parliament during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.
Several processes were introduced and used for a short time between Niépce's first image and the introduction of the collodion process in 1848.
It is used, or was once used, in the national legislatures and subnational legislatures of most Commonwealth and ex-Commonwealth nations upon being granted responsible government, beginning with the first of the Canadian provinces in 1848 and the six Australian colonies between 1855 and 1890.
The term is named after Vilfredo Pareto ( 1848 – 1923 ), an Italian economist who used the concept in his studies of economic efficiency and income distribution.
In each public school the game was formalised according to local conditions ; but when the schoolboys reached university, chaos ensued when the players used different rules, so members of Cambridge University devised and published a set of Cambridge Rules in 1848 which was widely adopted.
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.
This mahogany tea table was used on July 16, 1848, to compose much of the first draft of the Declaration of Sentiments.
Oberon was initially referred to as " the second satellite of Uranus ", and in 1848 was given the designation by William Lassell, although he sometimes used William Herschel's numbering ( where Titania and Oberon are II and IV ).
* Carl Stumpf ( 1848 – 1936 ), student of Brentano and mentor to Husserl, used " phenomenology " to refer to an ontology of sensory contents.
Close by is the Tour du Guet, or watch-tower, a structure dated to the 13th century which was used as a lighthouse until 1848 when a new lighthouse was built by the port.
Collodion, invented in 1848 and used as a wound dressing and an emulsion for photographic plates, is dried to a celluloid-like film.
In 1848 Robert E. Lee, then a lieutenant colonel in the U. S. army, recommended that Mullet Key be used for coastal defense in Florida.
The Town of Dansville was used to form, in whole or part, the Towns of Cohocton, Howard ( both in 1812 ), Wayland ( 1848 ), and Fremont ( 1854 ).
Part of Greenwood was used to form the Town of West Union in 1845, but territory was regained from the Town of Jasper in 1848.
Part of Pulteney was used to form the Town of Prattsburgh ( 1813 ) and part of the Town of Urbana ( 1848 ).
The land was used very little and passed through several hands until 1848 when it was sold to A. R. Sprout and Amos Burrows who went on to become the founding fathers of Picture Rocks.
Commenting on this first edition of The United Irishman, Lord Stanley in the House of Lords, on 24 February 1848, maintained that the paper pursued " the purpose of exciting sedition and rebellion among her Majesty's subjects in Ireland … it is language used in no common way, and for this reason I have called the attention of her Majesty's Government to it.
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