A rigid belief in laissez-faire guided the government response in 1846 – 1849 to the Great Famine in Ireland, during which an estimated 1. 5 million people died.

In 1849, during his tour of Britain he completed ( a decade and a half before the name Christadelphian was conceived ) Elpis Israel ( elpis being Greek for " hope ") – in which he laid out his understanding of the main doctrines of the Bible.

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.

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

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.

In 1849 the castle was put up for sale and sold to the Bovy and Balland families, who stayed at the castle during summer time and restored it with the help of their painter friends.

* Charlotte Brontë's novel Shirley ( 1849 ), set during the Napoleonic Wars, explores some of the economic effects of war on rural Yorkshire.

A major epidemic occurred in Ireland between 1816 – 19, and again in the late 1830s, and yet another major typhus epidemic occurred during the Great Irish Famine between 1846 and 1849.

The valley received its English name in 1849 during the California Gold Rush.

However, during the June 1849 Prussian coup d ' état the newspaper was suppressed.

1849, during the brief Second French Republic, Baron Haussmann was named Prefect of the Var.

George Bird Grinnell ( 1849 – 1938 ) was a non-Indian author and ethnologist, who wrote accounts of the Blackfoot Nation during his travels and research as a conservationist.

Perhaps from traders, the cholera epidemic reached the Plains Indians in 1849, resulting in severe loss of life during the summer of that year.

Perhaps because of severe loss of trade during the 1849 season, Bent's Fort was abandoned and burned.

This number is more than the number of migrants to that area during the 1849 Gold Rush.

As President of the Republic, Louis-Napoléon sent French troops to help restore Pope Pius IX as ruler of the Papal States in 1849 after his rule had been overthrown by the revolutionaries led by Giuseppe Mazzini and Giuseppe Garibaldi who had proclaimed the Roman Republic ( although as a Carbonaro he had been involved in plotting a similar revolt in the Papal States during his youth in Italy ).

Inline skates, skates designed to work like ice skates during periods of warm weather, were invented by Louis Legrange of France in 1849.

After a flood during the winter of 1849 / 50, the town was moved to higher ground at a site the miners called Logtown.

It was first settled in 1849, during the California Gold Rush, as Nevada ( meaning " snow-covered ", a reference to the snow-topped mountains in the area ).

Production increased over the years in response to the needs of the U. S. military for gunpowder during the Mexican War ( 1846-1848 ), demand for blasting powder during the California gold rush of 1849, and the Crimean War ( 1850s ), when the Hazard Powder Company supplied both Britain and Russia with gunpowder, shipping a total of 500 tons to Britain.

A blockhouse known as Fort Concord was constructed on the shores of Lake Concord in 1849 to protect local settlers during conflicts between the Seminole Wars.

Lars Paul Esbjörn, the first Swedish Lutheran minister in the United States, and a group of Swedish immigrants arrived in Andover during 1849.

In 1849, he was wounded by an arrow in his neck during a skirmish against Apaches in Las Vegas, New Mexico.

The words are those of a bereaved lover singing about his darling, the daughter of a miner in the 1849 California Gold Rush.

A year and a half later, California requested to join the United States on December 3, 1849 and was accepted as the 31st State of the union on September 9, 1850.

In 1849, the state of California ratified its first constitution, which contained the express objective of creating a complete educational system including a state university.

The drain of gold in favor of silver led to a search for gold, including the California Gold Rush of 1849.

The Pony Express was a mail delivery system of the Leavenworth & Pike's Peak Express Company of 1849 which in 1850 became the Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company.

* General Zachary Taylor, who became the Whig candidate in 1848 and then President from March 1849 to July 1850, proposed after becoming President that the entire area become two free states, called California and New Mexico but much larger than the eventual ones.

A group of Euro-Americas that became stuck in the valley in 1849 while looking for a shortcut to the gold fields of California gave the valley its name, even though only one of their group died there.

1849 was the first year of large scale cholera epidemics in the United States, and thousands are thought to have died along the trail on their way to California — most buried in unmarked graves in Kansas and Nebraska.

After 1849 the California Gold Rush continued for several years as the California miners continued to find about $ 50, 000, 000 worth of gold per year at $ 21 per ounce.

It was used by many in 1849 and later as a winter crossing to California, despite its many disadvantages.

Thousands of travelers on the combined California Oregon and Mormon Trail succumbed to cholera in the 1849 – 1855 time period.

On the main trail about west of Soda Springs Hudspeth's Cutoff ( established 1849 and used mostly by California trail users ) took off from the main trail heading almost due west, bypassing Fort Hall.

In 1849 and 1850, several parties of gold seekers bound for the California Gold Rush panned small amounts of gold from various streams in the South Platte River valley at the foot of the Rocky Mountains.

325 men are known to have arrived before the 1849 California Gold Rush which drew the first significant number of laborers from China who mined for gold and performed menial labor.

The 1849 California Gold Rush led to conflicts between miners and natives, and the state formed the volunteer Mariposa Battalion as a punitive expedition against natives in the Yosemite area.

When President Taylor in his December 1849 message to Congress urged the admission of California as a free state, a state of crisis was further aggravated.

In 1849 a state constitution was written, a governor and legislature chosen and California became a state in 1850 as part of the Compromise of 1850.

* The hull of the whaling vessel Niantic, an artifact of the 1849 California Gold Rush, lay almost exactly beneath the Transamerica Pyramid, and the location is marked by a historical plaque outside the building ( California Historical Landmark # 88 ).

In 1849 he headed to California for the gold rush, but ended up in the Hawaiian Islands instead.

The position was created in 1849, the year before California became a state.

California's acquisition by the United States under the terms of the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo following the defeat of Mexico in the Mexican – American War caused further American westward expansion into Mexico intensified with the California Gold Rush, beginning in 1849.

*" California as I Saw It :" First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849 – 1900 Library of Congress American Memory Project