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In 1849, he acted as president of the British Association and was elected one of the eight foreign associates of the Institute of France in succession to J. J. Berzelius ; and ten years later, he accepted the office of principal of the University of Edinburgh, the duties of which he discharged until within a few months of his death.
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From 1817 until 1849 ( through the Bourbon Restoration and the July Monarchy ) he was, without interruption, a member of the chamber of deputies, and he acted consistently with the Liberal opposition, of which he was the virtual leader.
Thwaites also acted to support local business: when he discovered there was a monopoly on the supply of gas in Southwark, Thwaites set up the Surrey Gas Consumers company in 1849, a mutual association of businesses, to get alternative and much cheaper supplies.
From 1849, he was a professor of Slavic archeology at the University of Vienna, and several times he also acted as a counselor to the Austrian government for issues around the Slovaks.
After gold had been discovered in the Sierra Nevada Foothills in 1849, Yerba Buena's location on the natural harbor of San Francisco Bay acted as a magnet for European and American settlers, as well as gold and job seekers from a multitude of countries.
Benito Rosales acted briefly as the 23rd President ( then called Supreme Director ) of Nicaragua between 8 March and 1 April 1849.
Nominated assessor in 1837, he acted for five years in this capacity at Magdeburg and Coblenz, became in 1845 counsellor in the ministry of finance, and was in 1849 elected a member of the second chamber of the Prussian diet, joining the Moderate Liberal party.
In 1849, Henry David Thoreau wrote " I heartily accept the motto, ' That government is best which governs least '; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.
After fighting for the Roman republic in 1849, he emigrated to South America, but failing to establish himself returned to Italy, and lived precariously as a literary man until 1870, when his reputation was established by the unexpected success of his first acted tragedy, Nero.
1849 and president
** In the former doge-state Venice, and while it was a republic resisting annexation by either the kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia or the Austrian empire, a former Chief Executive ( president, 23 March 18485 July 1848 ), Daniele Manin ( b. 1804-d. 1857 ), was styled Dictator 11 – 13 August 1848 before joining the 13 August 1848-7 March 1849 Triumvirate.
Originally named Twality when created in 1843, the territorial legislature renamed it for the first president of the United States, George Washington, in 1849.
Robert Means Thompson ( 2 March 1849 – 5 September 1930 ) was a United States Navy officer, business magnate, philanthropist and a president of the American Olympic Association.
James K. Polk of Tennessee, president of the United States from 1845 to 1849, was prominent early Yalobusha County landowner.
In 1849, Abbott married Mary Martha Bethune ( 1823 – 1898 ), a relative of Dr. Norman Bethune, a daughter of Anglican clergyman and McGill acting president John Bethune, and a granddaughter of the Presbyterian minister John Bethune.
for Hull in 1847, president of the Poor Law Board in 1849, was returned as M. P.
Banks served as a Democrat in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1849 to 1853, and was speaker in 1851 and 1852 ; he was president of the state Constitutional Convention of 1853, and in the same year was elected to the United States House of Representatives as a coalition candidate of Democrats and Free-Soilers.
and he was the first president of the Confederation from November 21, 1848 to December 31, 1849 and later again in 1852, 1855 and 1858.
Sumner is a coastal seaside suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand and was surveyed and named in 1849 in honour of John Bird Sumner, the then newly appointed Archbishop of Canterbury and president of the Canterbury Association.
" In 1849, he was elected a member of the Assembly, and became president of the principal committee — that on legislation.
* Joseph W. Kirwan, 1796 – 1849, first president of Queen's College, Galway
In 1849, he began missionary work in France and was the first church mission president in the country.
From 1842 – 1849, he was the first president of the Birmingham Society of Artists.
He became a member of the Minnesota Historical Society in 1849 and eventually served as president.
When Governor Thomas Stevenson Drew resigned from office on January 10, 1849, Byrd was president of the Senate and became acting governor.
* Friedrich Wilhelm Löwe as president of the Stuttgart rump parliament ( 6 June 1849 until 18 June 1849 )
The line was completed in 1849 and Cornell was made president of the company.
In 1849, the Scotts returned to Oxford, as Dr. Scott was selected as the first president of the Oxford Female Institute.
He was born to Demetrio Yglesias Llorente and Eudoxia Castro Fernandez, whose father was also president, the " Founder of the Republic " José María Castro who served two terms, 1847 – 1849 and 1866 – 1868.
Barranquilla is also known as La Arenosa ( meaning The Sandy ), as called by the president of New Granada, Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera, during his stay in Barranquilla in 1849.
* Polk ; the diary of a president, 1845 – 1849, covering the Mexican war, the acquisition of Oregon, and the conquest of California and the Southwest, ( 1929 )
He won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1849, and served as its president for two years starting in 1870.
At Oberlin, Cox married the eldest daughter of college president Finney in 1849 ; at age 19, Helen Clarissa Finney was already a widow with a small son.
1849 and British
* 1849 – John William Waterhouse, British painter ( d. 1917 )
Anne Brontë (; 17 January 1820 – 28 May 1849 ) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family.
* Arthur Wellesley, 4th Duke of Wellington ( 1849 – 1934 ), British soldier
This led to the first British chocolate bar in 1847, followed in 1849 by the Cadbury brothers.
* 1849 – Lord Randolph Churchill, British statesman ( d. 1895 )
Evictions only increased after the repeal of the British Corn Laws in 1846 and the new Encumbered Estates Act being passed in 1849 as well as the removal of existing civil rights.
* 1820 – Anne Brontë, British author ( d. 1849 )
On 29 March 1849, the British raised their flag on the citadel of Lahore and the Punjab was formally proclaimed to be part of the British Empire in India.
* 1781 – Ebenezer Elliott, British poet ( d. 1849 )
* Popular British Ornithology ; containing a familiar and technical description of the Birds of the British Isles ( 1849 ).
The Sikh human rights struggle morphed into a political struggle which was one of the dominant causes of the fall of the Mughal empire in India and led to the formation of a Sikh kingdom before being annexed by the British in 1849.
* May 9 – J. M. Dent, British publisher ( b. 1849 )
* January 24 – Lord Randolph Churchill, British statesman ( b. 1849 )
* September 19 – Hartley Coleridge, British poet ( d. 1849 )
** James Justinian Morier, British diplomat and novelist ( d. 1849 )
* Benjamin d ' Urban, British general and colonial administrator ( d. 1849 )
* James Justinian Morier ( 1782 – 1849 ), British diplomat and author
The colonies of Vancouver Island, founded in 1849, and the Colony of British Columbia, founded in 1858, were combined in 1866 with the name Crown Colony of British Columbia until joining Confederation in 1871.
Received royal charter for the Island as a colony in 1849, and merged with the colony of British Columbia in 1866.
Pierce Egan ( 1772 – 1849 ) was an early British journalist, sportswriter, and writer on popular culture.
The Anti-Transportation League, a group founded in 1849 which was opposed to the transportation of convicts to Australia, argued that such a " Fenian " colony could separate from the British Empire, due to its then largely Irish Catholic make up.
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