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In 1859, confident of gaining the presidential nomination and advised by his political ally and friend Thurlow Weed that he would be better off avoiding political gatherings where his words might be misinterpreted by one faction or another, Seward left the country for an eight-month tour of Europe that included a visit to Syria, where Ayub Beg Tarabulsy gave him several Arabian horses.
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1859 and gaining
Until 1859, he explored the regions of West Africa in the neighborhood of the equator, gaining considerable knowledge of the delta of the Ogooué River and the estuary of the Gabon.
He then matriculated at Lincoln College, Oxford, before studied at Worcester College, Oxford, gaining a BA in law and modern history there in 1857 and an MA in 1859.
1859 and presidential
It was declared a national monument by presidential decree of June 5, 1991, in honor and national recognition to the Italian geographer and cartographer Agustino Codazzi, born in 1793 and died in 1859.
Established in 1859 as the Department of Antiquities, then renamed the Egyptian Antiquities Organisation in 1971, the SCA acquired its title in 1994 by presidential decree.
He was a presidential elector in 1856 and 1860, and a member of the Alabama House of Representatives in 1859 and 1865.
The Linnean Society President Thomas Bell in his presidential report of May 1859 wrote that " The year which has passed has not, indeed, been marked by any of those striking discoveries which at once revolutionize, so to speak, the department of science on which they bear ".
In December 1859 Democrats returning to Congress reacted with indignation because 68 Republicans had endorsed the book and planned to use it as campaign literature in the presidential election of 1860.
He apparently disapproved, and in his annual presidential report presented in May 1859 wrote that " The year which has passed has not, indeed, been marked by any of those striking discoveries which at once revolutionize, so to speak, the department of science on which they bear ".
He apparently disapproved, and in his annual presidential report presented in May 1859 wrote that " The year which has passed has not, indeed, been marked by any of those striking discoveries which at once revolutionize, so to speak, the department of science on which they bear ".
1859 and nomination
He was a member of the New York State Assembly ( New York Co., 14th D .) in 1859, and was a delegate to the 1860 Republican National Convention where he played a role in the nomination of Abraham Lincoln.
In 1859 Utah Territory delegate William Henry Hooper offered Evans the territory's nomination to the United States Naval Academy.
1859 and advised
In 1859 his health gave way, and he advised his congregation to join the Barony church, where Norman McLeod was pastor.
1859 and by
The first ironclad battleship, with iron armour over a wooden hull, La Gloire, was launched by the French Navy in 1859 ; she prompted the British Royal Navy to build a counter.
In Un Catalogue raisonné de manuscrits ethiopiens ( Paris, 1859 ) is a description of 234 Ethiopian manuscripts collected by Antoine.
Its guano deposits were mined by the American Guano Company from 1859 to 1878.
then the distribution correctly gives the Maxwell – Boltzmann distribution of gas molecule speeds, previously predicted by Maxwell in 1859.
For the next forty years, Chile's armed forces would be distracted from meddling in politics by skirmishes and defensive operations on the southern frontier, although some units got embroiled in domestic conflicts in 1851 and 1859.
Part of West Cambridge joined the new town of Belmont in 1859, and the rest of West Cambridge was renamed Arlington in 1867 ; Brighton was annexed by Boston in 1874.
Caving was pioneered by Édouard-Alfred Martel ( 1859 – 1938 ) who first achieved the descent and exploration of the Gouffre de Padirac, France as early as 1889 and the first complete descent of a 110 metre wet vertical shaft at Gaping Gill, in Yorkshire, England in 1895.
Its banner was again picked up by the Avar Imam Shamil, who fought against the Russians from 1834 until 1859.
Between 1859 and 1891, Peirce was intermittently employed in various scientific capacities by the United States Coast Survey, where he enjoyed his highly influential father's protection until the latter's death in 1880.
The edition of 1849 may be regarded as historically the most important, from the mass of new critical material it used ; that of 1859 is distinguished from Tischendorf's other editions by coming nearer to the received text ; in the eighth edition, the testimony of the Sinaitic manuscript received great ( probably too great ) weight.
According to Charles Darwin's 1859 theory of natural selection, features such as camouflage evolved by providing individual animals with a reproductive advantage, enabling them to leave more offspring, on average, than other members of the same species.
The Clipper Ship " Flying Cloud " off the Needles, Isle of Wight, by James E. Buttersworth, 1859 – 60.
Corsican was long the vernacular language alongside Italian, official language in Corsica until 1859, then it was replaced by French owing to the conquest of the island by France in 1768.
Inspired by Babbage's difference engine plans, Per Georg Scheutz built several difference engines from 1855 onwards, one of which was sold to the British government in 1859.
' The term was used in 1859 by German philosophers and frequent collaborators Moritz Lazarus and Heymann Steinthal in Zeitschrift für Völkerpsychologie und Sprachwissenschaft.
The movement culminated with the 1859 – 60 massacre and defeat of the Christians by the Druzes.
By 1859 — known by Ecuadorian historians as the Terrible Year — the nation was on the brink of anarchy.
** La Légende des Siècles ( The Legend of the Centuries ) by Victor Hugo ( 1859 – 1877 )
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.
She made her debut as a guitar player and singer in Peoria, Illinois in 1859, with George on the violin, and was teaching guitar by age thirteen.
The possibility of linking humans with earlier apes by descent only became clear after 1859 with the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species.
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.
The argument and the evidence was further strengthened by Claude Pouillet in 1827 and 1838, and reasoned from experimental observations by John Tyndall in 1859, and more fully quantified by Svante Arrhenius in 1896.
1859 and political
But political debate was cut short throughout the South with Northern abolitionist John Brown's 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry Armory in an attempt to incite slave insurrections.
Two of the most significant thinkers of the period were biologist Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 82 ), author of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection ( 1859 ), and political scientist Karl Marx ( 1818 – 83 ), author of Das Kapital ( 1867 ).
American education reformer and abolitionist, Horace Mann ( 1796 – 1859 ) taught political economy, intellectual and moral philosophy, and natural theology.
Victor Hugo, who had hitherto shown support for Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, decided to go into exile after the coup, and became one of the harshest critics of Napoleon III, despite the amnesty of political opponents in 1859.
Alfred Dreyfus ( ; 9 October 1859 – 12 July 1935 ) was a French artillery officer of Jewish background whose trial and conviction in 1894 on charges of treason became one of the most tense political dramas in modern French and European history.
From 1830 to 1886 the Liberals ( the name the Whigs, Radicals and Peelites accepted as their political label after 1859 ) had been managed to become almost the party of permanent government with just a couple of Conservative interludes.
On December 27, 1852, King Maximilian II granted Ludwigshafen am Rhein political freedom and as soon as November 8, 1859, the settlement gained town status.
* John Austin ( legal philosopher ) ( 1790 – 1859 ), legal and political theorist who wrote The Province of Jurisprudence Determined
During the peak period of 1859 – 60, which coincided with Franz-Joseph's political and military defeats in Italy, her sexual withdrawal from her husband after three pregnancies in rapid succession, and her losing battle with her mother-in-law for dominance in rearing her children, she reduced her waist to 16 inches in circumference.
In the political excitement which followed the war of 1859 he found that he could not hope for the unreserved support of the king, and therefore in 1861 he accepted a professorship at Bonn, which he held till 1875.
* Edward Martyn, 1859 – 1923, political and cultural activist
His work Démocratie ( 1859 ) led to a political prosecution and imprisonment.
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar ( 1798 – 1859 ) was a Texas politician, poet, diplomat and soldier who was a leading Texas political figure during the Texas Republic era.
He returned to his studies and commenced his great Storia della Repubblica di Firenze ; but he followed political affairs with great interest, and helped to convince Lord John Russell, who stayed with him in 1859, of the hopelessness of the grand duke's position.
* Cuthbert-Alphonse Chênevert ( 1859 – 1920 ), a lawyer and political figure in Quebec
The Ansei Purge ( 安政の大獄 Ansei no taigoku ) was the persecution of political opponents of government leadership in Japan in 1858 and 1859.
The crisis attending the Second Italian War of Independence in 1859, with strong Hungarian popular support for the Italian cause, returned him to active political life, although he opposed the initial Austrian reform proposals of 1860.
A political reversal led to a change in local government, and the new council sought to pre-empt the previous central government's decision by holding a project competition in 1859, which Cerdà lost ; nevertheless, Cerdà's design prevailed, much to the chagrin of the major property owners.
Abraham Lincoln, in an April 6, 1859 letter to Henry L. Pierce, wrote of political opponents of the day who slighted the foundational principles of Thomas Jefferson as " glittering generalities ".
In 1859 he was studying the political situation at Berlin, and in the same year he paid a visit to England.
When he returned to Romania, at the end of 1861, Titu Maiorescu was eager to contribute to the progress of the recently formed state, after the Union of 1859, of the cultural and political life, of a European level.
The Peelites finally disappeared as a distinctive political faction when they agreed to combine with the Whigs, Radicals and Independent Irish Party MPs to bring down the Conservative government of the Earl of Derby in 1859.
His father, popularly known as " Honest John ," was the political boss of his Chicago ward, serving as an alderman from 1859 to 1863, and again from 1867 to 1870.
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