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 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.

Bismarck, Roon and Moltke took charge at a time when relations among the Great Powers — Great Britain, France, Austria and Russia — had been shattered by the Crimean War of 1854 – 55 and the Italian War of 1859.

The impotence of legislation in this field was demonstrated when the Sale of Beer Act 1854 which restricted Sunday opening hours had to be repealed, following widespread rioting.

The Siege of Sevastopol ( 1854 – 1855 ) during the Crimean War and the Siege of Petersburg ( 1864 – 1865 ) during the American Civil War showed that modern citadels, when improved by improvised defences, could still resist an enemy for many months.

Grace recorded in his Reminiscences that he saw his first great cricket match in 1854 when he was barely six years old, the occasion being a game between William Clarke's All-England Eleven ( the AEE ) and twenty-two of West Gloucestershire.

However he soon reversed this rosy assessment, when on October 23, 1854, The Times of London published a report by explorer-physician John Rae of the discovery by Eskimos of the remains of the lost Franklin expedition along with unmistakable evidence of cannibalism among members of the party:

In 1854, the mathemetican de Morgan, when summarised the advantages of a decimal-based system over a non-decimal system " In the simple rules of arithmetic, we practice a pure decimal system, nowhere interrupted by the entrance of any other system: from column to column we never carry anything but tens ".

Steuben County was further reduced in size in 1854 when a portion was combined with portions of Chemung and Tompkins Counties to form Schuyler County.

After its original formation in 1842 was declared unconstitutional, Putnam County was firmly established February 11, 1854 when Richard Fielding Cooke's bill, with amendments, cleared the Tennessee House.

The Navy purchased the original 956 acres ( 3. 9 km² ) of MINSY in 1853 and commenced shipbuilding operations on September 16, 1854 under the command of then-Commander David Farragut, who would later gain fame during the US Civil War Battle of Mobile Bay, when he gave the order, " Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!

After two centuries, the Japanese policy of seclusion under the shoguns of the Edo period came to an end when the country was forced open to trade by American intervention in 1854.

The situation was resolved when the borough petitioned for city status, which was granted by letters patent in 1854.

He remained in Dresden until 1854, when he was called to the presidency of the Breslau seminary, where he remained until his death.

Volusia County was named after the then-largest-community, Volusia, when the Florida legislature divided Orange County on December 29, 1854.

The impotence of legislation in this field was demonstrated when the Sale of Beer Act 1854 which restricted Sunday opening hours had to be repealed, following widespread rioting.

The Chicago Times was a newspaper in Chicago from 1854 to 1895, when it merged with the Chicago Herald.

École Centrale de Lille was founded as École des arts industriels et des mines de Lille in 1854, the same year when Louis Pasteur became the dean of Faculté des sciences de Lille and pioneered applied research with industry cooperations, with support of scientists such as Charles Frédéric Kuhlmann.

It was published somewhat irregularly until 1854, when it was taken over by Hippolyte de Villemessant.

Among recent Economic Development successes in Caroline have been the recruitment of the State Fair of Virginia ( previously in Richmond since 1854 when the first State Fair opened in Monroe Park ), Remuda Programs for Eating Disorders, The Virginia Sports Complex, the multi-national electrical contracting firm, M. C.

Screven ranks as the oldest established town being formally established in 1854 when the town became a terminus on the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad.

The town was originally named Indian Gulch when founded in 1852 ; the name was changed to West Point in 1854.

The town was founded in 1854 when the Northern Cross Railroad built a line through the area.

The European settlement history of Chenoa began in 1854 when Matthew T. Scott began buying thousands of acres of land in this area.

At the Southern Commercial Convention of 1854, Pike said the South should remain in the Union and seek equality with the North, but if the South " were forced into an inferior status, she would be better out of the Union than in it.

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.

It was founded in Kansas City, Missouri in 1889 by Charles Fillmore ( 1854 – 1948 ) and Myrtle Fillmore ( 1845 – 1931 ) after Mrs. Fillmore had been cured of her tuberculosis, she believed, by spiritual healing.

In 1854, she co-founded the Women Society for the Improvement of Prisoners ( Fruntimmersällskapet för fångars förbättring ) together with Mathilda Foy, Maria Cederschiöld, Betty Ehrenborg and Emilia Elmblad.

On 22 August 1853, Nightingale took the post of superintendent at the Institute for the Care of Sick Gentlewomen in Upper Harley Street, London, a position she held until October 1854.

On 21 October 1854, she and the staff of 38 women volunteer nurses that she trained, including her aunt Mai Smith, were sent ( under the authorisation of Sidney Herbert ) to the Ottoman Empire.

Stung by the defeat of her land bill, in 1854 and 1855 Dix traveled to England and Europe, where she reconnected with the Rathbones and conducted investigations of Scotland's madhouses that precipitated the Scottish Lunacy Commission.

In February 1854, she began to suffer from debilitating headaches of the same type she had experienced at Oberlin.

In 1854 she built the villa Eugénie, today the Hôtel du Palais.

Erich's mother, Klara Jeanette Henriette von Tempelhoff ( 1840 – 1914 ), was the daughter of the noble but impoverished Friedrich August Napoleon von Tempelhoff ( 1804 – 1868 ), and his wife Jeannette Wilhelmine von Dziembowska ( 1816 – 1854 ) – she from a Germanised Polish landed family on her father's side, and through whom Erich was a remote descendant of the Dukes of Silesia and the Marquesses and Electors of Brandenburg.

In 1854, she was again promoted to the rank of Imperial Concubine Yi ( 懿嬪 ).

* Lady Anne Emily Spencer-Churchill ( Lower Brook Street, Mayfair, London, 14 November 1854 – South Audley Street, Mayfair, London, 20 June 1923 ), married 11 June 1874 James Innes-Ker, 7th Duke of Roxburghe, by whom she had issue.

* Lady Anne Emily Spencer-Churchill ( Lower Brook Street, Mayfair, London, 14 November 1854 – South Audley Street, Mayfair, London, 20 June 1923 ), married 11 June 1874 James Innes-Ker, 7th Duke of Roxburghe, by whom she had issue.

William Wilberforce Still ( 1854 – 1914 ) graduated from Lincoln University and subsequently practiced law in Philadelphia ; Robert George Still ( 1861 – 1896 ), was a journalist who owned a print shop on Pine at 11th Street in central Philadelphia and Frances Ellen Still ( 1857 – 1930 ) became a kindergarten teacher ( she was named after poet Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, who lived with the Stills before her marriage ).

Some of her works include The Woodbridge and Willard Geographies and Atlases ( 1823 ), which she wrote with the American geographer William Channing Woodbridge ; History of the United States, or Republic of America ( 1828 ), A System of Fulfillment of a Promise ( 1831 ), A Treatise on the Motive Powers which Produce the Circulation of the Blood ( 1846 ), Guide to the Temple of Time and Universal History for Schools ( 1849 ), Last Leaves of American History ( 1849 ), Astronography ; or Astronomical Geography ( 1854 ), and Morals for the Young ( 1857 ).

In the movie she is Walker's wife and is present at his 1854 trial for violating US neutrality laws after he invaded Baja and Sonora Mexico, dying shortly thereafter.

In 1854 she became a training ship and continued as one until she was broken up in 1868 in Portsmouth.

* Alice Tyler-Denison ( 1827 – 1854 )-In 1850 she married the Reverend Henry M. Denison, an Episcopal rector in Williamsburg.

In 1854 she joined him in London, where he was minister to the Court of St. James's.

Afterwards a question arose as to the validity of the marriage with she being a Roman Catholic and he a Protestant and they were again married in 1854 in the Church of Ireland.

In 1854 she introduced her 17-year-old granddaughter to the Court of Louis Philippe.