Solar flares were first observed on the Sun by Richard Christopher Carrington and independently by Richard Hodgson in 1859 as localized visible brightenings of small areas within a sunspot group.

In 1859 a group of Manitowoc residents came to Pere Marquette Village aboard the Steamer Gazelle to look into the possibilities of cross lake shipping.

When a group of local families decided to establish a school in 1859, they settled on a site near present-day Cherokee Lane and Turner Road.

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 ".

The suit charges that a group of powerful investors conspired to break the lease in 1859 by sending the state Legislature a fraudulent petition from a number of Shinnecock tribesmen.

In 1813, Commodore David Porter claimed Nuku Hiva for the United States, but the United States Congress never ratified that claim, and in 1842, France, following a successful military operation on behalf of a native chief ( named Iotete ) who claimed to be king of the whole of the island of Tahuata, took possession of the whole group, establishing a settlement ( abandoned in 1859 ) on Nuku Hiva.

Members of the group participated in the meeting of MPs in 1859, which agreed to support the Second Palmerston Government and which is often regarded as the formal foundation of the Liberal Party.

Outmaneuvering the opposition of Vogoride and his group of conservative followers during new elections for the Divan, Kogălniceanu was able to promote Cuza in Moldavia on January 17, 1859, leading to Cuza's election for a similar position in Wallachia ( February 5 )— the de facto union of the two countries as the United Principalities.

In 1859, Joseph Höttmann, a former associate of Wüst met with a group of Mennonites to discuss problems within the main Mennonite body.

The first group of students admitted to the Grant Medical College, Bombay, on November 1, 1845 were: Grant Medical College in the Illustrated London News, October 8, 1859, print from a photograph by H. Hinton.

In 1859, Joseph Höttmann, a former associate of Wüst met with a group of Mennonites to discuss problems within the main Mennonite body.

In 1859, a group of people led by the Barão de Mauá convinced the Brazilian government that it was important to construct a railroad connecting São Paulo to the seaport at Santos.

Members of the group participated in the meeting of MPs in 1859, which agreed to support the Second Palmerston Government and which is often regarded as the formal foundation of the Liberal Party.

In 1859, Smith joined the Secret Six, a group of wealthy northern abolitionists, who supported Brown in his efforts to capture the armory at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia ( then Virginia ) and arm the slaves.

Some time later in 1859, another group of missionaries was killed at Wulaia Bay by the Yaghan, supposedly led by Jemmy and his family.

Local disturbances meant they would stay only a year and, in July 1859, the group moved to the monastery of Isola Gran Sasso.

Penniless she was forced to sell all her possessions in Armaño and moved into the house of violinist and composer Jesús de Monasterio in Potes, Cantabria, where in 1859 she founded the feminist group Conference of Saint Vincent de Paul in order to help the poor.

Founded in 1859 as part of the Volunteer Force sponsored by The Highland Society of London and The Caledonian Society of London, a group of individual Scots raised The London Scottish Rifle Volunteers under the command of Lt Col Lord Elcho, later The Earl of Wemyss and March.

Among the painters associated with the group were Joseph Crawhall ( 1861 – 1913 ), Thomas Millie Dow ( 1848-1919 ), James Guthrie ( 1859 – 1930 ), George Henry ( 1858 – 1943 ), E. A. Hornel ( 1864 – 1933 ), and E. A. Walton ( 1860 – 1922 ).

Lowe and fellow future Atlanta mayor William Ezzard were among a group of investors that chartered the Atlanta Mutual Insurance and Stock Company in 1859.

The group existed sub rosa only until 1859 when it was abandoned completely.

In December 1859, a group headed by captain Manuel Leal founded villa La Resurreccion, with families from the surrounding towns of Piedras Negras, Guerrero, Nava, Gigedo, as well as a group of families from San Antonio, Texas.

After 1853 John Tyndall joined Huxley in running the science section of the Westminster Review and formed a group of evolutionists who helped pave the way for Charles Darwin's 1859 publication of On the Origin of Species and gave evolutionary ideas backing in the ensuing debate.

* 1859 – Pig War: Ambiguity in the Oregon Treaty leads to the " Northwestern Boundary Dispute " between United States and British / Canadian settlers.

Already a majority of the population by 1859, the number of white settlers ( called Pākehā by Māori ) increased rapidly to reach a million by 1911.

Starting in 1859 with the Colorado Gold Rush, European-American settlers moved into lands reserved for the Cheyenne and other Plains Indians.

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A man named George Sauls, along with his wife Adeline and six children, were the first settlers in the area currently known as Deltona in 1859.

The first settlers in this township were Fred Jurgess, Joseph Lakowski and Waterhouse Whitelam, who came in 1859.

By the spring of 1859, over 4, 000 Pawnee natives flooded the Elkhorn Valley during a hunting excursion and, displeased to find white settlers in the valley, burned several homesteads and killed livestock.

In 1859, following complaints of Pawnee depredations against settlers in the Elkhorn River valley, a combined force of Nebraska Territorial Militia under the command of General John Milton Thayer and 2nd U. S. Army Dragoons under Lieutenant Beverly Holcombe Robertson prepared to attack a Pawnee village.

Nearby Fort McKavett was deactivated in 1859, leaving the settlers with little protection from frequent Indian raids.

The town of Logan was founded in 1859 by Mormon settlers sent by Brigham Young to survey for the site of a fort near the banks of the Logan River.

Chief Moses was leader of the Sinkiuse tribe from 1859 to 1899, and was forced to negotiate with white settlers who began to settle in the area in the 1880s.

In 1859 settlers built the first irrigation ditch to divert water from the Platte for farming.

Golden, Colorado, established in 1859 as Golden City, served as a supply center for miners and settlers in the area.

Wood's Cemetery, on a hill on the west side of Bank Street was formally established in 1881, but the site had actually been used by settlers as a burial ground from the 1850s or earlier, the oldest marked grave being that of Charles Kinmond who died December 19, 1859.

The current Wonnerup House was built in 1859 by the Layman family ( original settlers ).

The Coushatta claim was disputed by white settlers in 1859.

He served in the Mexican-American War without seeing combat, attempted to keep the peace between Seminoles and settlers in south Florida, and taught artillery tactics at West Point, where he wrote The Artillerist's Manual in 1859.

The river was a significant source of placer gold during the Colorado Gold Rush of 1859, leading to the first large influx of white settlers into South Platte, previously inhabited principally by the Ute people.

The area was of little use to the American colonists before 1859, when the Colorado Gold Rush brought the first large numbers of settlers to the Colorado Piedmont along the mountains, inundating the designated Native American lands with settlers and prospectors.

They worked among the English settlers till 1859.

A Post Office opened on 1 January 1845 to serve the needs of the settlers and was known as Bunnenyong until 1859.

The Mendocino War was a conflict between settlers and Native Americans that took place in Mendocino County, California in 1859.

Some of these were settlers on San Juan Island during the Pig War of 1859.