In 1849 David Livingstone described it as a " shimmering lake, some long and 20 wide ".

At Wheeling, the National Road crossed the Ohio River on the Wheeling Suspension Bridge, designed by Charles Ellet Jr. and completed in 1849, then the world's longest bridge span at from tower to tower.

South Bernville Covered Bridge, 1849 – 1938, crossed near the South Bernville Hotel ( a. k. a., Newport Hotel ).

The growing demand for mohair further resulted in attempts on a commercial scale to introduce the goat into South Africa ( where it was crossed with the native goat ) in 1838, the United States in 1849, Australia from 1856 – 1875, and later still New Zealand.

In 1849 he crossed the St. Croix River to settle in St. Paul, soon home of his fledgling hardware business.

By incurring harsh military repression from Austria, the failed revolt left the Polish nationalists in a poor position to participate in the wave of national revolution that crossed Europe in 1848 and 1849.

On a number of occasions in 1849, Regine and Kierkegaard crossed each other's paths, beginning with dispersing from church after Mass, and later on the routes for afternoon walks both of them took.

This route was used by many gold hungry miners in 1849 and later but suffered from the disadvantage that you had to find a way across the very wide and very dry Sonora Desert.

In 1849, an emigrant party with James Wilkins " encamped at the city of the rocks " on the California Trail just north of the Great Salt Lake Desert.

Across the way from the apartment building is a ruined house, shot to hell that day in 1849, and left that way as a memorial.

One anecdote describes Thomas Hunt Morgan banning the Friden calculator from his department at Caltech, saying " Well, I am like a guy who is prospecting for gold along the banks of the Sacramento River in 1849.

Major additions to the old house were considered in 1849, but by then negotiations were underway to purchase the estate from the trustees of the deceased Earl Fife.

Four main recensions of Tischendorf's text may be distinguished, dating respectively from his editions of 1841, 1849, 1859 ( ed.

The edition of 1849 may be regarded as historically the most important, from the mass of new critical material it used ; that of 1859 is distinguished from Tischendorf's other editions by coming nearer to the received text ; in the eighth edition, the testimony of the Sinaitic manuscript received great ( probably too great ) weight.

This is only 35 years before John Thomas ' 1849 lecture tour in Britain which attracted significant support from an existing non-Trinitarian Adventist base, particularly, initially, in Scotland where Arian Socinian and unitarian ( with a small ' u ' as distinct from the Unitarian Church of Theophilus Lindsey ) views were prevalent.

Haiti again became an empire from 1849 to 1859 under Faustin Soulouque.

Bastiat had contracted tuberculosis, probably during his tours throughout France to promote his ideas, and that illness eventually prevented him from making further speeches ( particularly at the legislative assembly to which he was elected in 1848 and 1849 ) and took his life.

* 1849 – Regular steamboat service from the west to the east coast of the United States begins with the arrival of the in San Francisco Bay, 4 months 22 days after leaving New York Harbor.

In late April 1849, it was defeated and pushed back from Rome by Giuseppi Garibaldi's volunteer corps, then recovered and recaptured Rome.

The empire, based around the Punjab region, existed from 1799 to 1849.

This is largely due to the flow of emigrants from Ireland during The Great Famine of 1845 – 1849.

Joseph Severn ( from a drawing by his daughter Mary, 1849 )

In due course the Governor-General received the Koh-i-Noor from Login, who had been appointed Governor of the Citadel, the Royal Fort at Lahore, with the Royal Treasury, which Login valued at almost £ 1, 000, 000 (£ as of ), excluding the Koh-i-Noor, on 6 April 1848, under a receipt dated 7 December 1849, in the presence of the members of the Board of Administration — the local resident H. M. Lawrence, C. C.

At least 25 titles were recorded, from Kit Carson, Prince of the Gold Hunters ( 1849 ) through Kit Carson, King of Scouts ( 1923 ).

In a quest for family roots, he attempted to trace his great grandmother – Brita Gallagher – who set sail from Ireland 150 years ago during the Great Famine ( 1845 – 1849 ), bound for a new life in Burlington, New Jersey.

The capital moved from Montreal to Toronto in 1849 when rioters, spurred by a series of incendiary articles published in The Gazette, protested the Rebellion Losses Bill and burned down Montreal's parliament buildings.

A return for the United Kingdom and colonies in 1849 showed, among other details, that the expenses of the lazaret at Malta for ten years from 1839 to 1848 had been £ 53, 553.

* Rigsdagen, the parliament of Denmark from 1849 to 1953

Hodgson had in 1849 noted a dichotomy between " pronominalized " ( inflecting ) languages, stretching across the Himalayas from Himachal Pradesh to eastern Nepal, and " non-pronominalized " ( isolating ) languages.

* 1849 – American abolitionist Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery.

The oldest practical rebreather relates to the 1849 patent from the Frenchman Pierre Aimable De Saint Simon Sicard.

Louis Pasteur could rightly be described as the first stereochemist, having observed in 1849 that salts of tartaric acid collected from wine production vessels could rotate plane polarized light, but that salts from other sources did not.

Although the Oregon Treaty of 1846 settled the boundaries of US jurisdiction upon all lands south of the 49th parallel, the Provisional Government continued to function until 1849, when the first governor of Oregon Territory arrived.

On 14 June 1849, Ute chiefs Walkara and Sowiette went to the Salt Lake Valley to ask Mormon leader Brigham Young to settle a group of his people in the valley of Sanpitch, about to the south.

In 1849, 1852, 1855, and 1864 lots were laid out to the west and south of the " The Corners.

However, a small village named Eden appears on an 1849 map located on the Minnesota River just south of Eden Prairie's current location.

Danbury was founded in 1851 specifically to serve as the new centrally-located county seat after Stokes County was divided in 1849, creating Forsyth County to the south and a smaller Stokes County.

In his 1849 report to his superiors, he described the Chippewa historical territory in the Pembina River basin as covering an area about 400 miles from north to south and 500 miles from east to west.

In 1849 Samuel and John Bennion and several other families moved south crossing the river on the ice in January.

The ship proceeded south along the Atlantic coast of the Americas, rounded Cape Horn, reached San Francisco Bay on 31 July 1849, and operated on the west coast during the most tempestuous year of the gold rush.

He arrived back to London in 1849, where he was made a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and awarded a Gold medal for " exploration in the south eastern portion of Australia ".

In the south, he worked on the London and Southampton Railway, later called the London and South Western Railway, designing, among other structures, Richmond Railway Bridge ( 1848, since replaced ), and Barnes Bridge ( 1849 ), both across the River Thames, tunnels at Micheldever, and the 12-arch Quay Street viaduct and the 16-arch Cams Hill viaduct, both in Fareham ( 1848 ).

A series of wall paintings covering large parts of the north and south walls, discovered during an 1849 restoration, are the chief interest of the church.

In 1849, this part of the Military Frontier bordered the Principality of Serbia to the south, Voivodship of Serbia and Tamiš Banat to the north, Transylvania and Wallachia to the east, and the Slavonian Military Frontier to the west.

The subspecies D. a. modestus ( Príncipe ) together with D. a. coracinus and D. a. atactus ( Bioko and mainland west and central Africa from Guinea east to western Kenya and south to Angola ) is usually split as a separate species, the Velvet-mantled Drongo D. modestus, ( Hartlaub, 1849 ).

The Parish Church ( now Croydon Minster ) is a Perpendicular-style church, which was remodelled in 1849 but destroyed in a great fire in 1867, following which only the tower, south porch, and outer walls remained.

Construction of the modern harbour began in 1849 when the Royal Navy created a breakwater to the south of the anchorage, made of blocks from local quarries on the Isle of Portland.

Le Heros under Captain Auguste Bernard Duhaut-Cilly ( 1790 – 1849 ) left Le Havre April 8, 1826 and sailed south through the Atlantic Ocean, stopping in Rio de Janeiro and around Cape Horn.

The Donahue Brothers Peter and James, Irish immigrants, founded Union Iron Works in the south of Market area of San Francisco in 1849.

The Battle of Heligoland ( or Helgoland ) was fought on 9 May 1864, during the Second War of Schleswig between the navy of Denmark and the allied navies of Austria and Prussia south of the then-British North Sea island of Heligoland where the Battle of Heligoland ( 1849 ) had taken place.

In 1849 at the age of 21, John T. Blaisdell moved from Maine and squatted on land just south of downtown Minneapolis.

The part along the Connecticut River from Hartford south to Windsor opened on February 13, 1849.

Although the exterior of the north, east and south sides were completed before the 3rd Earl died in 1849 and Sir Charles Barry died in 1860, the interior and the west wing ( designated as servants ' quarters ) were far from complete.

It was seen in 1849 by Captain Owen Stanley while surveying the south coast of Papua and named after him.

In 1843 he moved to Stuttgart, and, entering the political arena with a pamphlet Württemberg im Jahr 1843, was elected in 1848 a member of the Württemberg House of Deputies ; became leader of the democratic party in south Germany and, in consequence of his agitation for parliamentary reform in 1849, was obliged, to take refuge in Switzerland to avoid arrest.

After the introduction of the constitutional monarchy with the Constitution of 1849, the south wing of the palace became the meeting place of the two houses of the first Danish Parliament ( the Rigsdagen ).

Similarly, by 1849, Papineau was advocating the absorption of the Province of Canada ( formed in 1840 ) into the American republic to the south.