* 1848 – Andrew Onderdonk, American construction contractor ( d. 1905 )

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.

It originated circa 1848 and served as a gateway for incoming immigrants who arrived during the California gold rush and the construction of the North American transcontinental railroads.

His first construction was a boat made of cement which he tested on the lake at Besse-sur-Issole in 1848.

Plans for the station were first made in December 1848 under the direction of George Turnbull, resident engineer for construction of the first 20 miles of the Great Northern Railway out of London.

Chartered in 1848, the Kings Mountain Railroad Company began construction of a connecting line between Yorkville and the Charlotte and South Carolina Railway at Chester completed in 1852.

In 1848, construction began on the Lake and McHenry Plank Road.

But with construction of the bridge to Lewiston in 1823, and especially after arrival of the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad from Portland in January 1848, the community developed into a mill town.

Phase one ( 1848 to 1858 ) of construction continued up to the level, under the direction of Superintendent William Daugherty.

By 1848, rail construction through Brookville had started.

The 1848 construction of the Augusta Canal channeled produce from upriver away from Hamburg.

In 1824 he enrolled for two semesters at the Bauakademie in Berlin where he studied architecture and engineering under Martin Friedrich Rabe ( 1765 – 1856 ), bridge construction and foundation construction under Johann Friedrich Dietlein ( 1782 – 1837 ), hydraulics under Johann Albert Eytelwein ( 1764 – 1848 ), and languages.

In 1848 Roebling undertook the construction of four suspension aqueducts on the Delaware and Hudson Canal.

Major Hartman Bache, a distinguished engineer of the Army Corps of Topographical Engineers, began work in 1848 and completed the task in 1850, at a construction cost of $ 53, 317.

He also studied flood management in 1848 and supervised the construction of the Paris sewer system.

Its construction was begun in 1848 at Biloxi, Mississippi.

Surveying started in 1848 and construction commenced in 1854.

The construction of Shan Ha Wai was begun in 1848 by the wealthy granite merchant and stonemason Tsang Koon-Man as a stronghold for the Tsang clan, and took around 20 years to complete.

He worked as a construction engineer on a number of railroads in the South and in Panama, except for a period in which he returned to the Army as a captain in the Maryland and Washington, D. C. Volunteer Artillery ( August 1847 to July 1848 ).

Helvetia appears in patriotic and political artwork in the context of the construction of a national history and identity in the early 19th century, after the disintegration of the Napoleonic Helvetic Republic, and she appears on official federal coins and stamps from the foundation of Switzerland as a federal state in 1848.

From 1848 until the construction of the Central Freeway in the 1950s, 9th Street ( formerly known as Johnston Street ) was the official ( and generally recognized ) boundary between SoMa and the Mission District.

After some financial problems, construction resumed in August 1846, and the next section, to Port Jervis, opened on January 7, 1848.

RIBA runs many awards including the Stirling Prize for the best new building of the year, the Royal Gold Medal ( first awarded in 1848 ), which honours a distinguished body of work, and the Stephen Lawrence Prize for projects with a construction budget of less than £ 500, 000.

After collecting much valuable information concerning the geography, geology, archaeology and natural history of Ethiopia, the brothers returned to France in 1848 and began to prepare their materials for publication.

With Hugh's coronation, a new era began for France, and his descendants came to be named the Capetians, with the Capetian dynasty ruling France for more than 800 years ( 987 – 1848, with some interruptions ).

Following the success of Jane Eyre, in 1848 Charlotte began work on the manuscript of her second novel, Shirley.

In 1779, Adams began a diary that he kept until just before he died in 1848.

Hoping to see the revolution spread to Germany, in 1848 Marx moved back to Cologne ( Köln ) where he began issuing a handbill entitled the Demands of the Communist Party in Germany, in which he argued for only four of the ten points of the Communist Manifesto, believing that in Germany at that time, the bourgeoisie must overthrow the feudal monarchy and aristocracy before the proletariat could overthrow the bourgeoisie.

Mamie ( 1840 – 1926 ) had been twenty-one years old and Sis ( 1848 – 1928 ) thirteen when the Civil War began.

A two-year outbreak began in England and Wales in 1848 and claimed 52, 000 lives.

, 1848, Marshall found several flakes of gold that began the transformation of California from a sleepy outpost to a bustling center of activity.

Civil Rights movements began as early as 1848 in the USA with such documents as the Declaration of Sentiment.

Alexander Twining began experimenting with vapor-compression refrigeration in 1848, and obtained patents in 1850 and 1853.

After the events of 1848 he began to call himself a federalist.

In 1848, de Bary graduated from the Gymnasium at Frankfurt, and began to study medicine at Heidelberg, continued at Marburg.

A serious movement for merger of law and equity began in the states in the mid-19th century, when David Dudley Field II convinced New York State to adopt what became known as the Field Code of 1848.

With the support of the Baptist church, classes at the Kalamazoo Theological Seminary began in 1848 with 11 students.

In the United States, a picture or blank card stock that held a message and sent through the mail at letter rate first began when a card postmarked in December 1848 contained printed advertising on it.

In the decades leading up to 1848, a small number of women began to push against restrictions imposed upon them by society.

The California Gold Rush ( 1848 – 1855 ) began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California.

In 1848, nationalist and liberal revolutions began to break out across Europe ; in 1849, a Roman Republic was declared and Pope Pius IX fled the city.

In 1848, the revolutionary disturbances began on January 5 with a civil disobedience strike in Lombardy, as citizens stopped smoking and playing the lottery, which denied Austria the associated tax revenue.

Mazzini believed that Italian unification could only be achieved through a popular uprising, but after the failure of the 1848 revolutions, the Italian nationalists began to look to the Kingdom of Sardinia and its prime minister Count Cavour as the leaders of the unification movement.

Gold prospecting in Calaveras County began in late 1848 with a camp founded by Henry and George Angel.

King Louis-Philippe began restoring it during his reign but with his abdication in 1848, the château was confiscated by the government.