This view was met with ridicule, but was later supported by Hugh Edwin Strickland and Alexander Gordon Melville in their 1848 monograph The Dodo and Its Kindred, which attempted to separate myth from reality.

The last attempted impeachment occurred in 1848, when David Urquhart accused Lord Palmerston of having signed a secret treaty with Imperial Russia and of receiving monies from the Tsar.

When the Croats under Josip Jelačić attempted to return Međimurje, which was then part of Hungary, to Croatia, Andrássy placed himself at the head of the gentry of his county, and served with distinction at the battles of Pákozd and Schwechat, as Arthur Görgey's adjutant ( 1848 ).

During the summer of 1848, Stuart attempted to enlist in the U. S. Army, but was rejected as underaged.

In two papers from 1848 and 1850, the Russian mathematician Pafnuty L ' vovich Chebyshev attempted to prove the asymptotic law of distribution of prime numbers.

Zachary Taylor avoided the issue as the Whig candidate during the 1848 U. S. presidential election but then as President attempted to sidestep the entire controversy by pushing to admit California and New Mexico as free states immediately, avoiding the entire territorial process and thus the Wilmot Proviso question.

Draining the Everglades was first suggested in 1848, but was not attempted until 1882.

During the Revolutions of 1848 the Frankfurt Parliament attempted to divide the Duchy into two parts: the Province of Poznań, which would have been given to the Germans and annexed to a newly-created German Empire, and the Province of Gniezno, which would have been given to the Poles and held outside Germany, but because of the protest of Polish parliamentarians these plans failed and the integrity of the duchy was preserved.

After the revolutions of 1848, Franz Joseph attempted to rule as an absolute monarch, keeping all the nationalities in check.

The Pearl Incident in 1848 was the largest recorded escape attempted by slaves in United States history.

On April 15, 1848, seventy-seven slaves attempted to escape Washington D. C. by sailing away on a schooner called The Pearl.

Eventually Nicholas Trist negotiated the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, explicitly redefining the border between Mexico and the United States, in early 1848 after President Polk had already attempted to recall him from Mexico as a failure.

The movement from Denmark of the large German majority in Holstein and southern Schleswig was suppressed in the First Schleswig War ( 1848 – 51 ), but the movement continued throughout the 1850s and 1860s, as Denmark attempted to integrate the Duchy of Schleswig into the Danish kingdom and proponents of the German unification expressed the wish to include the Danish-ruled duchies of Holstein and Schleswig in a ' Greater Germany '.

The history of organised European colonisation on the islands began with the Danish East India Company in 1754 / 56 when they were During 1754 – 1756 they were administrated from Tranquebar ( in continental Danish India ). administrated under the name of Frederiksøerne from Tranquebar ( in continental Danish India ); missionaries from the Moravian Church Brethren's settlement in Tranquebar attempted a settlement on Nancowry and died in great numbers from disease ; the islands were repeatedly abandoned due to outbreaks of malaria: 1784-1807 / 09, 1830 – 1834 and finally from 1848 gradually for good.

With the 1848 February Revolution, the motto was officially adopted, mainly under the pressure of the people who had attempted to impose the red flag over the tricolor flag ( the 1791 red flag was, however, the symbol of martial law and of order, not of insurrection ).

When the main body of the church was forced out of Nauvoo, Illinois in the winter of 1846, the church attempted to sell the building, finally succeeding in 1848.

In 1848, the year of many attempted revolutions in large parts of Europe, violence in the district of Worbis was widespread, leading to the formation of Bürgerwehren ( vigilante militia groups ), under the control of the mayor in each village.

Additional waves of émigrés came after the failures of the attempted 1848 revolution and the January Uprising of 1863 – 1864.

He quelled the attempted revolution in 1848 without bloodshed by arresting all the conspirators and expelling them from the country.

The development of the city continued after the attempted 1848 / 1849 revolution.

In addition to the Offenburg programme, the Sturm petition of March 1, 1848, attempted to extort from the government the most far-reaching concessions.

* Icarians, a French utopian movement which attempted to set up a colony in Denton County in 1848.

Richard Dillingham ( June 18, 1823 – June 30, 1850 ) was a Quaker school teacher from Peru Township in what is now Morrow County, Ohio, U. S. A., who was arrested in Tennessee on December 5, 1848, while aiding the attempted escape of three slaves.

William Smith O ' Brien, the leader of the Young Ireland Party, launched an attempted rebellion in July 1848, in response to British repression and the introduction of martial law.

Even after these battles, Mexico did not surrender until 1848, when it agreed to peace terms set out by Polk.

Harrison argues that the first to set out a satisfactory resolution of the paradox was Lord Kelvin, in a little known 1901 paper, and that Edgar Allan Poe's essay Eureka ( 1848 ) curiously anticipated some qualitative aspects of Kelvin's argument:

Significant events in the early development of rugby football were the production of the first set of written football laws at Rugby School in 1845, which was followed by the ' Cambridge Rules ' drawn up in 1848.

The Second Republic of France is set up, ending the state of temporary government lasting since the Revolution of 1848.

The discovery of gold in California in January 1848 set off the California Gold Rush, and the number of settlers going to California skyrocketed.

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.

The Spring of Nations in 1848 then set the signal for a new wave of revolutions against the European monarchies.

As a painter she became famous primarily for two chief works: Ploughing in the Nivernais ( in French: Le labourage nivernais, le sombrage ), which was first exhibited at the Salon of 1848, and is now in the Musée d ’ Orsay in Paris depicts a team of oxen ploughing a field while attended by peasants set against a vast pastoral landscape ; and, The Horse Fair ( in French: Le marché aux chevaux ) ( which was exhibited at the Salon of 1853 ( finished in 1855 ) and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City.

Alexandre Dumas wrote a set of three plays that collectively told the story of The Count of Monte Cristo: Monte Cristo ( 1848 ), Le Comte de Morcerf ( 1851 ), and Villefort ( 1851 ).

The county was set off in 1843, and organized in 1848.

The County was set off in 1843, organized in 1846 and reorganized in 1848.

Ross, a Scot who had arrived in San Francisco from Australia in 1848 and made his fortune in the wholesale liquor business, set up a trading post called " Ross Landing ".

Ross, a Scot who had arrived in San Francisco from Australia in 1848 and made his fortune in the wholesale liquor business, set up a trading post called " Ross Landing ".

In 1848 the government set up a new mission a few miles west of Topeka.

First incorporated as part of Thomaston in 1777, and then as part of South Thomaston in 1848, Owls Head was itself set off and incorporated on July 9, 1921.

On July 28, 1848, South Thomaston was set off from Thomaston and incorporated as a separate town.

* James W. Marshall ( 1810 – 85 ), sawmill operator, whose 1848 discovery of gold in the American River in California set the stage for the California Gold Rush.

Other examples of nocturnes include the one for orchestra from Felix Mendelssohn's incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1848 ), the set of three for orchestra and female choir by Claude Debussy ( who also wrote one for solo piano ) and the first movement of the Violin Concerto No. 1 ( 1948 ) by Dmitri Shostakovich.

The Village of Union Springs set itself apart by incorporation in 1848.

In the nineteenth century its residents were among the closest neighbors to a utopian socialist commune, set up by John Humphrey Noyes, lasting from 1848 until 1881.

In 1843 a part of Greenbush was taken off, and in 1848 the northern half was set off as a separate town under the name of Poestenkill.

The set of Six Characteristic Pieces of 1848 was dedicated to Liszt, who described it as " the most outstanding, finely felt and finely finished pieces that have recently come to my note.

Rabbi Salanter set an example for the Lithuanian Jewish community during the cholera epidemic of 1848, making sure that necessary relief work on Shabbat for Jews was done by Jews ( despite the ordinary prohibition against doing work on Shabbat ), and ordering Jews whose lives were in danger to eat rather than fast on the fast day of Yom Kippur.

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.