With the passage of the extremely controversial Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854, Congress left the decision up to the voters on the ground in Kansas.

The town hall at the top of Mill Street began to deteriorate throughout the 1800s and the decision was taken to demolish it in 1854.

A territorial legislature was elected and first met in February 1854, and the territorial supreme court issued its first decision later in the year.

It was expected that students would join the teaching religious order, however in 1854, in response to a shortage of suitably qualified candidates, the decision was taken to admit lay students to the college.

In 1854 came the decision of the Roman Church on the long-debated question of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin.

* While the Nebraska Bill was passing through Congress, a law case, involving the question of a negro's freedom … was passing through the U. S. Circuit Court for the District of Missouri ; and both Nebraska Bill and law suit were brought to a decision in the same month of May, 1854.

Following the Riksdag's decision in 1854 a colonel of the Navy Mechanical Corps, Nils Ericson, was chosen as the leader for the project of building the main lines ( stambanorna ).

Arthur Aikin FGS ( 19 May 1773 – 15 April 1854 ) was an English chemist, mineralogist and scientific writer.

It was excavated by Spiegelthal in 1854, who found that it covered a large vault of finely cut marble blocks approached by a flat-roofed passage of the same stone from the south.

When added in 1854, it was assigned to 6 February.

In 1846 Robert Smirke was replaced as the Museum's architect by his brother Sydney Smirke, whose major addition was the Round Reading Room 1854 – 1857 ; at in diameter it was then the second widest dome in the world, the Pantheon in Rome being slightly wider.

Layard's work was continued by his assistant, Hormuzd Rassam and in 1852 – 1854 he went on to discover the North Palace of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh with many magnificent reliefs, including the famous Royal Lion Hunt scenes.

A check from Lloyd's of London records proved the existence of the Meta, built in 1854 and that in 1880 the Meta was renamed Ellen Austin.

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.

Ben Nevis was the name of a White Star Line packet ship which in 1854 carried the group of immigrants who were to become the Wends of Texas.

While his building was still under construction late in 1854, Bunsen suggested certain design principles to the university's mechanic, Peter Desaga, and asked him to construct a prototype.

The " Orange " in Orange Free State ( 1854 – 1902 ) was named after the Protestant House of Orange in the Netherlands.

On March 31, 1854, the or was concluded between Commodore Matthew C. Perry of the U. S. Navy and the Tokugawa shogunate.

Charlotte meanwhile was increasingly attracted to the intense attachment displayed by Nicholls, and by January 1854 had accepted his proposal.

John Snow, in England, was the first to identify the importance of contaminated water in its cause in 1854.

One of the major contributions to fighting cholera was made by the physician and pioneer medical scientist John Snow ( 1813 – 1858 ), who in 1854 found a link between cholera and contaminated drinking water.

In two pioneering epidemiological field studies, he was able to demonstrate human sewage contamination was the most probable disease vector in two major epidemics in London in 1854.

* 1854 – In his Apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus, Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogmatic definition of Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Virgin Mary was born free of original sin.

He was appointed surgeon at the Philadelphia Hospital in 1854 and was the founder of its pathological museum.

San Salvador was destroyed in 1756 and 1854, and suffered heavy damage in the 1919, 1982, and 1986 tremors.

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 ).

In 1854, when she was eighteen, Elizabeth and her sister went on a long visit to their school friends, Jane and Anne Crow, in Gateshead.

The Eureka Rebellion of 1854 was a historically significant organised rebellion of gold miners of Ballarat against British colonial authority.

The debate in the senate concluded on March 4, 1854, when Stephen Douglas, beginning near midnight on March 3, made a five-and-a-half-hour speech.

The first general plan of the city was made in 1854, during which, St. Hripsime and St. Gayane women's colleges were opened and the English Park was founded.

The " Free Soil " Party of 1848 – 52 and the new Republican Party after 1854 demanded that the new lands opening up in the west be made available to independent farmers, rather than wealthy planters who would develop it with slaves, and force yeomen farmers onto marginal lands.

A permanent, unified and politically neutral civil service, in which appointments were made on merit, was introduced on the recommendations of the Northcote-Trevelyan Report of 1854, which also recommended a clear division between staff responsible for routine (" mechanical ") work, and those engaged in policy formulation and implementation in an " administrative " class.

Usually skippets were made out of sterling silver, though for the Japanese treaty following Commodore Perry's mission a golden box was used ( the ratification of that treaty, made later in 1854, had an even more elaborate and expensive seal and heavy gold skippet ).

Inverted percussion pistol, 9. 5mm ; made by gunsmith Correvon, Morges, 1854.

In 1854 he made his first voyage to Africa, joining an expedition to Somalia led by the already famous Richard Burton.

From 1852 to 1854, Joseph Hekekyan, then working for the Egyptian government, conducted geological surveys on the site, and on these occasions made a number of discoveries, such as those at Kom el-Khanzir ( northeast of the great temple of Ptah ).

In 1854 he remodelled the Camden Chapel in Camberwell, a project in which the critic John Ruskin took a close interest and made many suggestions.

In 1854 the tribe made its last treaty with the US, gathering on a reservation on the Wolf River.

The copy was made by William Abbott Pratt circa 1854 from an original he made two weeks before Poe's 1849 death.

From 1854 to 1908 several additions and changes were made to the courthouse.

Main Street spread to the west with construction of the National Pike through the town in 1806 ; the telegraph lines from Frederick to Hagerstown were routed through Middletown in 1854 ; and in 1896, car 11 of the Frederick Middletown Railway made its first run to Middletown.

* Coe is an unincorporated community in the township at Perry H. Estee made the first land entry in the area in 1854 and James Woolsey, Daniel Brickley, and John Steward with their families became the first settlers in that year.

The first land entries in this area were made by Joshua Terry in 1853, by Green Bird in 1854, and by Isaiah Jester in 1855.

The town was made part of the new Schuyler County in 1854.

In 1854 Gustavus Adolphus Perry was made branch president at the location.

The first recorded claims for the land in Orting were made in 1854 by William Henry Whitesell ( also the first postmaster ), Thomas Headley, Daniel Lane and Daniel Varner.

In 1854 Joshua Glover, an escaped slave who had made a home in Racine, was arrested by federal marshals and jailed in Milwaukee.

Layard then began a political career, and Rassam continued field work ( 1852 – 1854 ) at Nimrud and Kuyunjik, where he made a number of important and independent discoveries, including clay tablets that would later be deciphered by George Smith as the Epic of Gilgamesh, the world's oldest-known example of written literature.

Its Order for closure was made in December 1853 and the final burial ( Elizabeth Howell Oliver ) took place on January 5, 1854.