However, in 1854, J C Adams caused the question to be re-opened by finding an error in Laplace's computations: it turned out that only about half of the Moon's apparent acceleration could be accounted for on Laplace's basis by the change in the Earth's orbital eccentricity.

When in 1854 Beatrice Cenci was lambasted by Francesco de Sanctis ( who had turned pro-Savoia ), he wrote to a friend: " Honoured Alessandro Manzoni, I am put down ... to think that as far back as ' 40 Britons and Germans saw us as leaders of two different schools, and his they labelled sleep-inducing ".

When he turned 19 in 1854, shortly after Commodore Matthew C. Perry's arrival in Japan, Fukuzawa's brother ( the family patriarch ) asked Fukuzawa to travel to Nagasaki, where the Dutch colony at Dejima was located, in order to enter a school of Dutch studies ( rangaku ).

* Ibuka Kajinosuke ( 1854 – 1935 ), former samurai turned Christian pastor, responsible for bringing the YMCA to Japan.

In 1854, however, many dissatisfied voters in Canada West turned to the more radical Clear Grit faction, and in order to stay in power traditional reformers in Canada East, led by Augustin-Norbert Morin, entered a coalition with Allan Napier MacNab's conservatives in Canada West.

It was garrisoned until 1854, when it was turned over to the use of the Choctaw Indian Agency ( a precursor to the Indian reservation ).

A High Church man, he was curate of St. Paul's in Oxford, and acted voluntarily as assistant curate at Headington from 1854 to 1858, until his views changed and he turned to politics.

The first steam locomotive was turned out on Wednesday, December 20, 1854.

The property became a country hotel for five years, after which time it was purchased by the nuns of Congregation-de-Notre-Dame in 1854, who turned it into a private girls school which they named Villa Maria.

The outflow of the Crimean Tatars turned into an exodus after the Crimean War ( 1854 – 1856 ), as the Russian government began to treat the Crimean Tatars as internal threats to its security because of their historical relations with the Ottoman Empire.

Soon after, he abandoned History Painting and turned his attention to genre depictions in rural landscapes like " A Rest by the Wayside " and " A Few Minutes to Wait before Twelve o ' clock " ( both exhibited 1854 ).

* Nick Busick (" Big Bully Busick "; born 1854 ), former police officer turned professional wrestler

In 1854, when construction began, an earlier Countess of Seafield turned the first shovel of dirt at the groundbreaking ceremony and was aboard the first train in 1855.

He joined O ' Donnell and Baldomero Espartero, Count of Luchana in 1854 against a revolutionary cabinet, and shortly afterwards turned against O ' Donnell to assist the Democrats and Progressists under Juan Prim, Rivero, Emilio Castelar y Ripoll, and Práxedes Mateo Sagasta it the unsuccessful movements of 1866, and was obliged to go abroad.

1854 brought a new threat to the attention of the colony, because up to that time the military focus had been upon internal conflicts between settlers and the native population.

In October 1854 the village's train station was laid out, and by rights was the center of attention.

Bessie was born in 1854 in Syracuse, New York, and the abundance of attention from men resulting from her striking beauty is said to have led her down the proverbial " wayward path " at a young age.

In 1854, Long requested William Crosby Dawson, a U. S. Senator, to present his claims of ether anesthesia discovery to the attention of Congress.

The influence of C. F. W. Ludwig, under whom he studied at Zürich, decided him to devote his attention to physiological chemistry, and therefore he went, after his graduation ( 1854 ), to Heidelberg, where R. Bunsen held the chair of chemistry.

After turning his attention to biology and completing eight years of work on barnacles, Darwin intensified work on his theory of species in 1854.

Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov ( Никола ́ й Алекса ́ ндрович Моро ́ зов ; July 7, 1854, Borok – July 30, 1946 ) was a Russian revolutionary who spent about 25 years in prison before turning his attention to various fields of science.

By September 1854 Darwin's other books reached a stage where he was able to turn his attention fully to Species, and from this point he was working to publish his theory.

By September 1854 Darwin's other books reached a stage where he was able to turn his attention fully to Species, and from this point he was working to publish his theory.

He now directed his attention to the fossils of his native country, more especially to those of the Cretaceous and Jurassic strata, and in 1854 he commenced the publication of his great work, Matériaux pour la paléontologie suisse, ou Recueil de monographies sur les fossiles du Jura et des Alpes ..., a series of quarto memoirs, of which six were published ( 1854-1873 ).

The well-known Egyptian cult of the dead inspired the Egyptian Revival themes first employed in Highgate Cemetery, near London, which was opened in 1839 by a company founded by the designer-entrepreneur Stephen Geary ( 1797 – 1854 ); its architectural features, which included a ' Gothic Catacomb ' as well as an ' Egyptian Avenue ', were brought to public attention once more by James Stevens Curl.

Those wounded at the Eureka Stockade in 1854 received varying attention and the need for a hospital became apparent.

The town became the centre of worldwide attention in 1854 during the Crimean War, when Inkerman was the scene of the Battle of Inkerman and the Battle of Chernaya River, both victorious for the French and the British troops.

Ilovaysky graduated from the Moscow University in 1854 and first attracted critical attention with his thesis on the Principality of Ryazan in 1858.

In 1854 he left Berlin to become professor of physics in Basel University, removing nine years afterwards to Brunswick Polytechnic, and in 1866 to Karlsruhe Polytechnic.

Lassaigne was born in Paris ; worked initially in the laboratory of Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, in 1828 was named professor of chemistry and physics at the École Royale Vétérinaire d ’ Alfort ( Royal School of Veterinary ) in Maisons-Alfort ; he preserved this role until 1854.

In late 1854, Lincoln ran as a Whig for the U. S. Senate seat from Illinois.

Four copies have been preserved of it, of which only one is complete ; but it was reprinted in facsimile in 1854 for the Bannatyne Club by the munificence of the Duke of Buccleuch.

In 1854, Gauss notably selected the topic for Bernhard Riemann's now famous Habilitationvortrag, Über die Hypothesen, welche der Geometrie zu Grunde liegen.

Clipper Sovereign of the Seas ( clipper ) | Sovereign of the Seas set the record for World's Fastest Sailing Ship in 1854

Benton, intending to challenge Atchison in 1854, began to agitate for territorial organization of the area west of Missouri ( now the states of Kansas and Nebraska ) so it could be opened to settlement.

Meanwhile, Newson ’ s malting business expanded and five more children were born, Alice ( 1842 ), Millicent ( 1847 ), who was to become a leader in the constitutional campaign for women's suffrage, Sam ( 1850 ), Josephine ( 1853 ) and George ( 1854 ).

The Battle of Eureka Stockade ( by which the rebellion is popularly known ) was fought between miners and the Colonial forces of Australia on 3 December 1854 at Eureka Lead and named for the stockade structure erected by miners during the conflict.

Gallipoli became a major encampment for British and French forces in 1854 during the Crimean War, and the harbour was also a stopping-off point on the way to Constantinople.

In July 1854, Lewes and Evans travelled to Weimar and Berlin together for the purpose of research.

) This instigated the Crimean War in 1854 and began a tenser period of minor clashes among the globe-spanning empires of Europe that set the stage for the First World War.

One of the first examples of geographic methods being used for purposes other than to describe and theorise the physical properties of the earth is John Snow's map of the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak.

From 1847 to 1854 Bruce was stipendiary magistrate for Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare, resigning the position in the latter year, when he entered parliament as Liberal member for Merthyr Tydfil.

The industrialisation of the watch industry started 1854 also in Waltham, Massachusetts, at the Waltham Watch Company, with the development of machine tools, tools, gauges and assembling methods adapted to the micro precision required for watches.

It was not until 1854 that Pope Pius IX, with the support of the overwhelming majority of Roman Catholic bishops, whom he had consulted between 1851 – 1853, promulgated the papal bull Ineffabilis Deus ( Latin for " Ineffable God "), which defined ex cathedra the dogma of the Immaculate Conception:

By the age of 16, Booth was interested in the theatre and in politics, becoming a delegate from Bel Air to a rally by the Know Nothing Party for Henry Winter Davis, the anti-immigrant party's candidate for Congress in the 1854 elections.

The word " Kerosene " was registered as a trademark by Abraham Gesner in 1854, and for several years, only the North American Gas Light Company and the Downer Company ( to which Gesner had granted the right ) were allowed to call their lamp oil " Kerosene " in the United States.

The Kansas – Nebraska Act of 1854 () created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing settlers in those territories to determine through Popular Sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory.

William Crossing in his Guide to Dartmoor states that a well known Dartmoor guide ( James Perrott ) placed a bottle for visiting cards at Cranmere Pool on the northern moor in 1854.

These reforms included guarantees to ensure the Ottoman subjects perfect security for their lives, honour, and property ; the introduction of the first Ottoman paper banknotes ( 1840 ) and opening of the first post offices ( 1840 ); the reorganization of the finance system according to the French model ( 1840 ); the reorganization of the Civil and Criminal Code according to the French model ( 1840 ); the establishment of the Meclis-i Maarif-i Umumiye ( 1841 ) which was the prototype of the First Ottoman Parliament ( 1876 ); the reorganization of the army and a regular method of recruiting, levying the army, and fixing the duration of military service ( 1843 – 44 ); the adoption of an Ottoman national anthem and Ottoman national flag ( 1844 ); the first nationwide Ottoman census in 1844 ( only male citizens were counted ); the first national identity cards ( officially named the Mecidiye identity papers, or informally kafa kağıdı ( head paper ) documents, 1844 ); the institution of a Council of Public Instruction ( 1845 ) and the Ministry of Education ( Mekatib-i Umumiye Nezareti, 1847, which later became the Maarif Nezareti, 1857 ); the abolition of slavery and slave trade ( 1847 ); the establishment of the first modern universities ( darülfünun, 1848 ), academies ( 1848 ) and teacher schools ( darülmuallimin, 1848 ); establishment of the Ministry of Healthcare ( Tıbbiye Nezareti, 1850 ); the Commerce and Trade Code ( 1850 ); establishment of the Academy of Sciences ( Encümen-i Daniş, 1851 ); establishment of the Şirket-i Hayriye which operated the first steam-powered commuter ferries ( 1851 ); the first European style courts ( Meclis-i Ahkam-ı Adliye, 1853 ) and supreme judiciary council ( Meclis-i Ali-yi Tanzimat, 1853 ); establishment of the modern Municipality of Istanbul ( Şehremaneti, 1854 ) and the City Planning Council ( İntizam-ı Şehir Komisyonu, 1855 ); the abolition of the capitation ( Jizya ) tax on non-Muslims, with a regular method of establishing and collecting taxes ( 1856 ); non-Muslims were allowed to become soldiers ( 1856 ); various provisions for the better administration of the public service and advancement of commerce ; the establishment of the first telegraph networks ( 1847 – 1855 ) and railroads ( 1856 ); the replacement of guilds with factories ; the establishment of the Ottoman Central Bank ( originally established as the Bank-ı Osmanî in 1856, and later reorganized as the Bank-ı Osmanî-i Şahane in 1863 ) and the Ottoman Stock Exchange ( Dersaadet Tahvilat Borsası, established in 1866 ); the Land Code ( Arazi Kanunnamesi, 1857 ); permission for private sector publishers and printing firms with the Serbesti-i Kürşad Nizamnamesi ( 1857 ); establishment of the School of Economical and Political Sciences ( Mekteb-i Mülkiye, 1859 ); the Press and Journalism Regulation Code ( Matbuat Nizamnamesi, 1864 ); among others.

" Although there had been attempts to construct what had previously been called an " aquatic vivarium " ( a name Gosse found " awkward and uncouth "), Gosse published The Aquarium in 1854 and set off a mid-Victorian craze for household aquariums.

The site of his sepulchre was discovered by De Rossi in 1854, with some broken remnants of the Greek epitaph engraved on the narrow oblong slab that closed his tomb and only the Greek term for bishop readable.