The county that contains Holton was previously named Calhoun County until 1859 when the name was changed to Jackson County.

In 1859, the famous John Brown took a group of escaped slaves through Holton, leading to an incident known as the " Battle of the Spurs ".

He first joined the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in 1840 then had in the interim joined a Masonic Lodge and become extremely active in the affairs of the organization, being elected Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite's Southern Jurisdiction in 1859.

Meanwhile, also in 1859, he had been made professor ordinarius of theology and of Biblical paleography, this latter professorship being specially created for him ; and another book of travel, Aus dem heiligen Lande, appeared in 1862.

The independent Princedom of Serbia, had conducted the first population census in 1834 ; the subsequent censuses were conducted in 1841, 1843, 1846, 1850, 1854, 1859, 1863 and 1866 and 1874.

The earlier ships were made from wood, though some were made from iron, just as some British clippers had been made from iron prior to 1859.

A reviewer concluded that Stickel brought forward every possible argument which would speak for that hypothesis, but he proved the opposite of what he had attempted to do ( Johannes Gildemeister in ZDMG 13, 1859, 289 – 304 ).

This last aspect of Erewhon reveals the influence of Charles Darwin's evolution theory ; Butler had read On the Origin of Species soon after it was published in 1859.

For example, at the time that Darwin first published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection ( 1859 ), no remains of human ancestors had yet been found.

For him, the fact that his theory gave a straightforward explanation of the anomalous perihelion shift of the planet Mercury, discovered earlier by Urbain Le Verrier in 1859, was important evidence that he had at last identified the correct form of the gravitational field equations.

By the 1830s mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology had emerged with world class science, led by Alexander von Humboldt ( 1769 – 1859 ) in natural science and Carl Friedrich Gauss ( 1777 – 1855 ) in mathematics.

This defense was first used by U. S. Congressman Daniel Sickles of New York in 1859 after he had killed his wife's lover, Philip Barton Key, but was most used during the 1940s and 1950s.

Not until engraver Orlando Jewitt, who had done work for Carroll before in 1859 and had reviewed Carroll ’ s illustrations for Wonderland, had suggested employment of a professional draughtsman did Carroll look to find an outside artist.

He also started a business partnership with John Ellsler, manager of the Cleveland Academy of Music, and another friend, Thomas Mears, to develop oil wells in northwestern Pennsylvania, where an oil boom had started in August 1859, following Edwin Drake's discovery of oil there.

Studies of Charles Darwin's notebooks have shown that Darwin arrived separately at the idea of natural selection which he set out in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, but it has been speculated that he may have had some half-forgotten memory from his time as a student in Edinburgh of ideas of selection in nature as set out by Hutton, and by William Charles Wells and Patrick Matthew who had both been associated with the city before publishing their ideas on the topic early in the 19th century.

In 1859, the tonnage of foreign shipping calling at Zanzibar had reached 19, 000 tons.

The northern provinces had remained loyal to the Emperor, and hoping to avoid a civil war, Sun Yat-Sen – already proclaimed " provisional president " by his supporters – had come to a compromise with the Emperor's key ally Yuan Shikai ( 1859 – 1916 ); the monarchy would be abolished, and Late Imperial China would be converted into a new Republic of China, but it would be the royalist Yuan and not the revolutionary Sun who would become its first President.

Henri Bergson ( 1859 – 1941 ), on the other hand, emphasized the difference between scientific, clock time and the direct, subjective, human experience of time His work on time and consciousness " had a great influence on twentieth-century novelists ," especially those modernists who used the stream of consciousness technique, such as Dorothy Richardson, Pointed Roofs, ( 1915 ), James Joyce, Ulysses ( 1922 ) and Virginia Woolf ( 1882 – 1941 ) Mrs Dalloway ( 1925 ), To the Lighthouse ( 1927 ).

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.

Standing alongside the Weinhaus Rheingold's Potsdamer Straße entrance, this five-storey steel-framed edifice had been erected as an office building in 1907-8 by architect and one-time Berlin inspector of buildings Otto Stahn ( 1859 – 1930 ), who was also responsible for the city's Oberbaumbrücke over the River Spree.

The modern Liberal Party had been founded in 1859 as an outgrowth of the Whig movement or party ( which began at the same time as the Tory party and was its historical rival ) as well as the Radical and Peelite tendencies.

By 1859, the University had moved to its current site in the Sydney suburb of Camperdown.

He had also served as Chancellor of the Exchequer four times ( 1853 – 1855, 1859 – 1866, 1873 – 1874, and 1880 – 1882 ).

The eldest of seven children, Housman was born at Valley House in Fockbury, a hamlet on the outskirts of Bromsgrove in Worcestershire, to Sarah Jane ( née Williams, married 17 Jun 1858 in Woodchester, Gloucester ) and Edward Housman ( whose family came from Lancaster ), and was baptized on 24 Apr 1859 at Christ Church, in Catshill.

Of the initial twenty-three Hilbert problems, most of which have been solved, only the Riemann hypothesis ( formulated in 1859 ) is included in the seven Millennium Prize Problems.

She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede ( 1859 ), The Mill on the Floss ( 1860 ), Silas Marner ( 1861 ), Middlemarch ( 1871 – 72 ), and Daniel Deronda ( 1876 ), most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight.

By 1859, seven villages existed where modern Kemerovo is now: Shcheglovka ( or Ust-Iskitimskoye ), Kemerovo ( named in 1734 ), Yevseyevo, Krasny Yar, Kur-Iskitim ( Pleshki ), Davydovo ( Ishanovo ), and Borovaya.

By 1859, the town had two gristmills, seven sawmills, and five shoe factories.

By 1859, industries included a woolen cloth factory, seven sawmills, four shingle mills, four clapboard mills, one grooving machine, one turning machine, and two tanneries.

By 1859, when the population was 708, there were seven sawmills, a gristmill, a carriage shop, a tin shop, and two tanneries.

By 1859, when the population was 934, it had seven sawmills, two shingle, lath and clapboard mills, and one tannery.

To which Fitzgerald adds the following footnote ( 1st edition, 1859 ): " Bahram Gur-Bahram of the Wild Ass from his fame in hunting it-a Sassanian sovereign, had also his seven palaces, each of a different colour ; each with a Royal mistress within ; each of whom recounts to Bahram a romance.

In June 1859, after seven months of pregnancy, Stone bore a son prematurely, but the child died.

The expulsion in 1837 of the seven professors – Die Göttinger Sieben – the Germanist, Wilhelm Eduard Albrecht ( 1800 – 1876 ); the historian Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann ( 1785 – 1860 ); the orientalist Georg Heinrich August Ewald ( 1803 – 1875 ); the historian Georg Gottfried Gervinus ( 1805 – 1875 ); the physicist Wilhelm Eduard Weber ( 1804 – 1891 ); and the philologists, the brothers Jakob ( 1785 – 1863 ) and Wilhelm Grimm ( 1786 – 1859 ), for protesting against the revocation by King Ernest Augustus I of Hanover of the liberal constitution of 1833, further reduced the prosperity of the university.

Between 1859 and 1864, the American Bank Note Company, New York produced seven new stamps in: 1 ¢, 5 ¢, ( two ) 10 ¢, 12½ ¢, 17 ¢ and 2 ¢ values.

A great storm swept the country on 26 October 1859 and many ships were lost: nine were wrecked at Porthor, seven of them with complete loss of life.

Camels had been used successfully in desert exploration in other parts of the world, but by 1859 only seven camels had been imported into Australia.

) The couple had seven children: Alexandra ( 1859 – 1937 ), Aura ( 1868 – 1942 ), twins Gala ( 1871 – 1964 ) and Ovidio ( 1871 – 1900 ), Amara ( 1873 – 1921 ), Adriano ( 1875 – 1876 ) and Valentina ( stillborn, 1877 ).

Between 1839 and 1859 between five and twelve ships made landfall each year, occasionally closer to 20 with seven or eight at a time laying off the reef.

Between 1839 and 1859 between five and twelve ships made landfall per year ( occasionally closer to 20 ) with seven or eight at a time laying off the reef.

Surrey were the " Champion County " seven times from 1850 to 1859 and again in 1864.

By the end of 1859, there were 15 foreign firms in Manila – seven of which are British, three are American, two French, two Swiss and one German.

His eldest sibling, Elizabeth Ann, died aged seven during an epileptic fit on 7 September 1859, which may have contributed to Mary Jane's depression.

He worked closely with a relatively small number of composers: Adolf Müller, who set 41 of Nestroy's texts between 1832 and 1847, Michael Hebenstreit who set 10 works from 1843 to 1850, Karl Binder who set seven from 1851 to 1859, as well as Anton M. Storch, Franz Roser, Carl Franz Stenzel, and Andreas Skutta.

He continued as a Methodist Episcopal clergyman at various pastorates in North Carolina from 1854 to 1865, for the last seven years being a presiding elder and from 1859 to 1863 being the proprietor of St Austins Institute, Wilson.

In 1858, he married Margaret Gourlay Ferrier and had seven children ( six sons and a daughter ), the eldest being Diarmid Noel Paton ( 1859 – 1928 ) who became a regius professor of physiology in Glasgow in 1906.

He married his second wife Mary A. Baldwin on August 22, 1859 and had seven children together.