Frustrated, in 1854 she moved to Washington D. C. and began work as a clerk in the US Patent Office ; this was the first time a woman had received a substantial clerkship in the federal government and at a salary equal to a man's salary.

Judge Williamson Dunn ( December 25, 1781-November 11, 1854 ), from Mercer County, Kentucky, was 27 when, on November 28, 1808, he purchased the land area of modern Hanover from the federal government.

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

Dix's land bill passed both houses of Congress, but in 1854 President Franklin Pierce vetoed it, arguing that the federal government should not commit itself to social welfare, which was properly the responsibility of the states.

Important elements of his political legacy include political reforms in the Ticino during the 1830s and 1840s, Switzerland's first federal population census in 1850, and the creation of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1854 / 1855.

By 1854, both the state and federal wings of the Democratic Party increasingly split into two separate Lecompton and Anti-Lecompton camps due to the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

Poor farms were the origin of the U. S. tradition of county governments ( rather than cities, townships, or state or federal governments ) providing social services for the needy within their borders ; the federal government did not participate in social welfare for over 70 years following the 1854 veto of the Bill for the Benefit of the Indigent Insane by Franklin Pierce.

In 1854 roads and canals taken in hand were taken under federal control.

However, this U. S. federal practice is not necessarily followed by U. S. state governments ; for example, the Act of the Pennsylvania legislature that consolidated the governments of the city of Philadelphia and Philadelphia County is generally ( though not formally ) called the Act of Consolidation, 1854.

* James Wilkinson ( Australian politician ) ( 1854 – 1915 ), Australian federal politician

Instead, the St. Croix Band found themselves losing their federal recognition in 1854 when omitted from the Treaty of La Pointe.

This uprising began in the spring of 1854 as expressions of dissatisfaction on the part of the people against the government.

As the result of the popular insurrection, the Partido Progresista ( Progressive Party ) obtained widespread support in Spain and came to power in the government in 1854.

They signed treaties with the US government in 1830 and 1854 to cede their lands in Missouri.

In 1854, the United Kingdom government appointed Robert FitzRoy to the new office of Meteorological Statist to the Board of Trade with the role of gathering weather observations at sea.

* 1854 – Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade.

In 1856, under the direction of Postmaster General James Campbell, Toppan and Carpenter, ( commissioned by the U. S. government to print U. S. postage stamps through the 1850s ) purchased a rotary machine designed to separate stamps, patented in England in 1854 by William and Henry Bemrose, who were printers in Derby, England.

He patented this method in 1854 and began developing it in conjunction with the government of France.

Following the expiration of the act in 1854 the land was no longer free but cost $ 1. 25 per acre ($ 3. 09 / hectare ) with a limit of — the same as most other unimproved government land.

After remaining under the direct government of the legislature for the first two decades of its existence, Columbia was incorporated as a village in 1805 and then as a city in 1854.

In 1854 there was an armed rebellion against the government of Victoria by miners protesting against mining taxes ( the " Eureka Stockade ").

In the following years, the British would extend responsible government to Prince Edward Island ( 1851 ), New Brunswick ( 1854 ), and Newfoundland ( 1855 ).

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 ).

One of the residents was listed as " Na-Nex-Se Blackhoof ," the widow of Chief Blackhoof, who was the second signer of the 1854 treaty that ceded 1. 6 million acres ( 6, 500 km² ) of the Kansas Shawnee Indian reservation to the U. S. government.

White settlers first arrived in what is now Mount Pleasant after the Graduation Act of 1854, allowing white settlers to purchase land from the government at discount rates.

In 1854 the territorial government in Utah offered a $ 1000 reward to anyone who could find coal within 40 miles of Salt Lake City.

The Japanese government claims that the name Sea of Japan was internationally used since the 17th century and established by the early 19th century, during a period in which Japan was under an isolationist policy ( Sakoku ) of the Tokugawa shogunate, which restricted cultural exchange and commerce with foreign countries except China and the Netherlands until 1854.

In 1854 Colt fought for his patent extension with the US Congress, who launched a special committee to investigate charges that Colt had bribed government officials in securing this extension.

A play of his, La Taverne des étudiants, was produced at the Odéon on 1 April 1854, but met with a stormy reception, owing to a rumour that the débutant had been instructed and commissioned by the government to insult the students.

The British government granted this concession, which had been previously promised by Lord Grey, and a constitution was established in 1854 of almost unprecedented liberality.

The Basotho, who dwelt in the upper valleys of the Orange River, had subsisted under a semi-protectorate of the British government from 1843 to 1854 ; but having been left to their own resources on the abandonment of the Orange sovereignty, they fell into a long exhaustive warfare with the Boers of the Orange Free State.

Lord Robert Cecil was first elected to the House of Commons in 1854 and served as Secretary of State for India in Lord Derby's Conservative government from 1866 until his resignation in 1867 over its introduction of Benjamin Disraeli's Reform Bill that extended the suffrage to working-class men.

This provision was much abused during dictatorships, with long-lasting states of siege giving the government a free hand to suppress opposition ( state of emergencies had been declared 52 times by democratic and dictatorial governments, starting in 1854 shortly after the constitution came into force ).

* was a transport hired in 1854.

According to oral tradition, when King and his partners began hiring people to staff the ranch, they hired a number of Mexican hands, including an entire Mexican village that had been decimated by drought in 1854.

* was a storeship hired in 1854 and lost later that year in the Crimean War.

Sir Allan MacNab, later prime minister of the united Province of Canada between 1854 and 1856, hired architect Robert Wetherall and construction of this stately home was completed in 1835.

In 1854, Morrissey was hired to prevent Poole and his gang from seizing ballot boxes and rigging an election.

With the Statehouse exterior nearing completion by 1854, Columbus architect Nathan Kelley was hired to supervise the design and construction of the building ’ s interiors.

Royall hired orphans to set the type and faced constant financial woes, which were exacerbated when postmasters refused to deliver her issues to subscribers, until her death at age 85 in 1854, bringing an end to her 30-year news career.

She was hired by the Italian Opera in Mexico, where on May 17 1854, she intoned for the first time the words of the Mexican national anthem, written by poet Francisco González Bocanegra.