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In 1849, parties headed for the California gold rush passed through, led by Captain Randolph B. Marcy.
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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.
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 in then western Kansas Territory, now northeast Colorado.
In the elections to the Prussian diet in May 1849 Polish delegates achieved 16 out of the 30 seats of the Province, but the elections to the German Constitutional Parliament were largely boycotted by Polish parties in protest against the incorporation.
The California gold rush created an enormous increase in westward traffic and several parties of 1849 and 1850 used the Hastings Cutoff.
After the Mexican-American War he performed frontier duties and escorted topographical parties, including a trip to California around Cape Horn in 1849.
1849 and headed
In 1849 he headed to California for the gold rush, but ended up in the Hawaiian Islands instead.
Warrender died in 1849 and the house was sold to the Sutherland family, headed by the second Duke.
The motion was defeated, and next day ( 13 June 1849 ) he headed what he called a peaceful demonstration, and his enemies armed insurrection.
Located at 1849 C Street, NW, in Washington, D. C., since May 22, 2009, the BIA is headed by an Assistant Secretary — Indian Affairs.
At the close of the same year, a new ministry was formed, headed by Gioberti ; but with the accession of Victor Emmanuel in March 1849, his active life came to an end.
It then became a junction station on 14 May 1849 when an east facing branch headed northwards to Hailsham was opened and another southwards to Eastbourne, the station had enlarged to three through platforms and a bay platform for Hailsham services.
The following spring, Shubrick headed home and took command of the Philadelphia Navy Yard in 1849.
The route was established in 1849 by a wagon train headed to the gold fields in California.
E. F. Cady sailed from New York on the Nautilus on February 22, 1849, headed for California.
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When they lost it, the French artillery moved in, and that was the end for Garibaldi that time, on 30 April 1849.
In 1849, he received a patent for a flotation device for the movement of boats in shallow water.
In the campaign for election to his fourth term in 1849, Johnson concentrated on three issues: slavery, homesteads and judicial elections.
* Alfred ( racehorse ), a leading competitor for the 1849 Grand National Steeplechase that finished fourth
One member who was not, Lord John Manners, stood against Rothschild when the latter re-submitted himself for election in 1849.
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.
The name was inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's poem The Raven, as Poe lived for a time in Baltimore, died there in 1849, and is buried there.
* Bertha Benz ( 1849 – 1944 ), German marketing entrepreneur who was the first to drive an automobile for a long distance
" He quotes Charles Lyell as saying " Continents, therefore, although permanent for whole geological epochs, shift their positions entirely in the course of ages " and claims that the first to throw doubt on this was James D. Dana in 1849.
In 1847 he left Prague for the professorship of mathematics, physics, and mechanics at the Academy of Mines and Forests in Schemnitz ( Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia ), and in 1849 he moved to Vienna.
Meanwhile Baltimore Clippers still continued to be built, and were built specifically for the China opium trade running opium between India and China, a trade that only became unprofitable for American shipowners in 1849.
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.
Snow proposed a microbial origin for epidemic cholera in 1849.
He is best known for the claim that for one day ( March 4, 1849 ) he may have been Acting President of the United States.
Benton declared himself to be against slavery in 1849, and in 1851 Atchison allied with the Whigs to defeat Benton for re-election.
Atchison himself never claimed that he was technically President of the United States for one day — Sunday, March 4, 1849.
On the satirical side, Thomas Carlyle ( 1849 ) coined ' the dismal science ' as an epithet for classical economics, in this context, commonly linked to the pessimistic analysis of Malthus ( 1798 ).
The first club was in 1849 at Blackheath in south-east London, but the modern rules grew out of a version played by Middlesex cricket clubs for winter sport.
In 1849, the French captured a slave ship and released the passengers at the mouth of the Komo ; The slaves named their settlement Libreville, French for " free town ".
Instead, she respectably attended church for years and continued to keep house for him until his death in 1849, when she was 30.
In 1849, Millet painted Harvesters, a commission for the state.
1849 and California
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.
The valley received its English name in 1849 during the California Gold Rush.
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.
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 ).
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
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