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 ''.

In the presidential election in 1848, the Democratic Party split over the slavery issue, with the abolitionists leaving the party and forming the Free Soil Party, and making Martin Van Buren their nominee.

Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, and emigrated to the United States with his parents in 1848.

Falling on very hard times as a handloom weaver and with the country in starvation, William Carnegie decided to move with his family to Allegheny, Pennsylvania in the United States in 1848 for the prospect of a better life.

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.

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 ).

It continued under the stimulating influence of the discovery of gold in California and Australia in 1848 and 1851, and ended with the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869.

Concerning its domestic borders, the 1803 Louisiana Purchase doubled the nation's geographical area ; Spain ceded the territory of Florida in 1819 ; annexation brought Texas in 1845 ; a war with Mexico in 1848 added California, Arizona and New Mexico.

In 1848, several revolutions broke out in Europe as rulers were confronted with popular demands for liberal constitutions and more democratic government.

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.

This statute replaced earlier statutes from 1820, 1823, 1838, 1841 and 1848 and has since been supplemented 11 times, with the latest supplement in 1995.

The term dialectical materialism was coined in 1887, by Joseph Dietzgen, a socialist tanner who corresponded with Karl Marx, during and after the failed 1848 German Revolution.

Appeared in the 1848, Anne Brontë's novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is framed as a retrospective letter from one of the main heroes to his friend and brother-in-law with the diary of the eponymous tenant inside it.

* The Tenant of Wildfell Hall ( 1848 ) by Anne Brontë is written in the form of letter from the narrator to his friend with the main heroine's diary inside it.

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

While living in Busseto with Strepponi, Verdi bought an estate two miles from the town in 1848.

Founded on 14 June 1848 by the orders of the democratically elected Frankfurt Parliament the Reichsflottes brief existence ended with the failure of the revolution and was disbanded on 2 April 1852 ; thus, the modern Marine celebrates its birthday on 14 June.

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 ).

Growing discontent with the political and social order imposed by the Congress of Vienna led to the outbreak, in 1848, of the March Revolution in the German states.

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.

After the attempts to achieve German national unity failed with the Revolutions of 1848, Wagner strongly relied on the picture of Henry as the actual ruler of all German tribes as advocated by pan-Germanist activists like Friedrich Ludwig Jahn.

In 1848 James B. Francis, while working as head engineer of Lowell's Locks and Canals company, improved on these designs to create a turbine with 90 % efficiency.

He married his second wife, Sarah Elizabeth Griswold on August 10, 1848 in Utica, New York and had four children ( Samuel b. 1849, Cornelia b. 1851, William b. 1853, Edward b. 1857 ).

His third wife, Jane Knill, kept a journal of their married life together, between their marriage in 1848 and his death ; it was later published.

At that time, Bethlem Hospital was opposite St George's Cathedral, Southwark, one of Pugin's major buildings, where he had married his third wife, Jane, in 1848.

Ruth Henshaw Bascom ( 1772 – 1848 ), the wife of Reverend Ezekial Lysander Bascom and daughter of Colonel William Henshaw and Phebe Swan, became America's premier portrait folk artist and pastelist, producing over one thousand portraits from 1789 to 1846.

He discarded his profession, and brought his wife and children to live in Dublin, first, for a short time at, George's Place ; then at 1 Heathfield, Upper Leeson Street, and finally at 8 Ontario Terrace, Rathmines, where he was arrested in 1848.

The hamlet is named for the nearby Lake Louise, which in turn was named after the Princess Louise Caroline Alberta ( 1848 – 1939 ), the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria, and the wife of John Campbell, the 9th Duke of Argyll, who was the Governor General of Canada from 1878 to 1883.

On January 11, 1776, Rush married Julia Stockton ( 1759 – 1848 ), daughter of Richard Stockton, another signer of the Declaration of Independence, and his wife Annis Boudinot Stockton.

* Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll ( 1848 – 1939 ), wife of the 9th Duke

Liebknecht was born in Leipzig, the son of Wilhelm Martin Philipp Christian Ludwig Liebknecht and his second wife Natalie ( née Reh ), who also came from a family with a strong political background ; her father, Karl, was a member of the Frankfurt Parliament of 1848.

From 1848 to 1851 he taught at a private boarding school, where he met his future wife, Suzanne Caubel ( although they would not marry until 1872 ).

At the behest of the Freedom Movement, he wrote text and music in 1848 for his political opera Regina, named after his wife.

; Alberta: Named after Princess Louise Caroline Alberta ( 1848 – 1939 ), the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria and wife of the Governor General of Canada in the late 19th century.

Christen Schiellerup Købke ( 26 May 1810 – 7 February 1848 ), Danish painter, was born in Copenhagen to Peter Berendt Købke, a baker, and his wife Cecilie Margrete.

Elias and his family joined Amasa in London in 1848, but after business disputes with Thomas and failing health of his wife, Howe returned nearly penniless to the United States.

His wife Sophie had already given up her ambitions, when she urged Franz Karl to renounce his claims to the throne at the time of his brother's abdication on 2 December 1848, allowing their eldest son Franz Joseph I to take the throne.

He was mayor of several towns: from 1845 he was mayor of Weyerbusch / Westerwald ; from 1848 he was mayor of Flammersfeld / Westerwald ; and finally he was mayor of Heddesdorf from 1852 until late 1865, when, at the age of 47, his worsening health cut his career short ; he had caught typhus in 1863 during an epidemic during which his wife had died.

Maria, Robinson's wife died in 1848.

His wife Henrietta died in 1848.

In 1848, he and his wife, Maria, were re-interred in the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.

Bartley married his second wife, Susan D. Sherman ( October 10, 1825 – January 10, 1876 ), sister of John Sherman and General William Tecumseh Sherman, on November 7, 1848 ,.

It was later purchased and run by Frost's wife and William Corner ( Headmaster 1848 – 1879 ).

Following the arrival of the Association's settlers at Dunedin in 1848, a Scots shepherd, Jaffray, brought his wife and dogs along the Māori track from Kaikorai Valley and settled on Saddle Hill in a whare ( a Māori-style house ) in 1849, establishing the first European farmstead in the district.

After the treaty of 1848 between the United States and the Menominee, Juneau registered his wife and children as half-breeds of the Menominee Nation.

The present-day town area was first settled by Europeans in 1848, when Andrew Risby, his wife Louisa and their five young children arrived to settle and develop farmland from, essentially, a thickly forested wilderness.