He encouraged Darwin to publish, and following the 1859 publication of On the Origin of Species, Lyell finally offered a tepid endorsement of evolution in the tenth edition of Principles.

Petroleum became a major industry following the oil discovery at Oil Creek Pennsylvania in 1859.

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.

Łukasiewicz moved to the Gorlice region of Poland in 1854, and sank several wells across southern Poland over the following decade, setting up a refinery near Jasło in 1859.

The greatest change was the widespread acceptance of evolution as the mechanism of biological diversity and species formation, following the 1859 publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species.

Piedmont was an initial springboard for Italy's unification in 1859 – 1861, following earlier unsuccessful wars against the Austrian Empire in 1820 – 1821 and 1848 – 1849.

The term Serbo-Croatian was first used by Jacob Grimm in 1824, popularized by the Vienna philologist Jernej Kopitar in the following decades, and accepted by Zagrebian grammarians in 1854 and 1859.

In 1859, following a late night excursion to count the rings of tree stumps during a rain storm, he became ill with bronchitis.

The Austrian Empire was forced to cede most of its claim to Lombardy – Venetia to the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia following the conclusion of the Second Italian War of Independence in 1859, and the Third Italian War of Independence in 1866.

The 2nd Zouaves ( popularly known as " the Jackals of Oran ") had their eagle decorated with the Legion d ' Honneur following the Battle of Magenta in 1859.

Yuan Shikai ( 16 September 1859 – 6 June 1916 ) was an important Chinese general and politician, famous for his influence during the late Qing Dynasty, his role in the events leading up to the abdication of the last Qing Emperor of China, his autocratic rule as the second President of the Republic of China ( following Sun Yatsen ), and his short-lived attempt to revive the Chinese monarchy, with himself as the " Great Emperor of China.

Newspaper publishing in Mysore started in 1859 when Bhashyam Bhashyacharya began publishing a weekly newspaper in Kannada called the Mysooru Vrittanta Bodhini, the first of a number of weekly newspapers published in the following three decades.

The county was officially organized on March 10, 1859, and is named after Zimri A. Carter, a pioneer settler who came to Missouri from South Carolina in 1812 ( see following section ).

In 1859, one year following the death of Chief John Okemos ( on whose treaty lands the community was built ), the area was renamed Okemos to honor the Native American chief.

In 1859 lots in the village of Salado sold to help finance new College, with Salado College opening the following year.

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 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.

In the decades following the 1859 publication of On the Origin of Species, the term " spontaneous generation " fell into increasing disfavor.

The next ruler Maharajah Uthram Thirunal Marthanda Varma AD 1847 – 1860, abolished slavery in the Kingdom in 1855, and restrictions on the dress codes of certain castes in 1859 following the recommendation of the Protestant clergy.

In 1859, following another short-lived Conservative government, Palmerston and Russell made up their differences, and Russell consented to serve as Foreign Secretary in a new Palmerston cabinet-usually considered the first true Liberal Cabinet.

New Brunswick adopted a decimal currency in 1859, and in the following year, Connell issued the first series of postage stamps in the new denomination.

In 1859 his history of the Qur ' an won for him the prize of the French Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, and in the following year he rewrote it in German ( Geschichte des Korans ) and published it with additions at Göttingen.

Hakodate port partially opened to foreign ships for provisioning in the following year and then completely to foreign trade on 2 June 1859 as one of five Japanese open ports designated in the 1858 Treaty of Amity and Commerce signed with the U. S.

In 1859, he was elected Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford ; although he entered Lincoln's Inn the following year, he became lecturer and then tutor at Oriel.

A location near Randwick was chosen but abandoned in 1859 without ever being used due to complaints from local residents and churches.

Rear Admiral Dahlgren, onboard the USS Pawnee ( 1859 ) | USS Pawnee, beside a 50-pounder Dahlgren rifle ( one of his bottle-shaped cast-iron cannons ), c. 1864.

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.

Rather than fighting, the Pawnees surrendered before the attack could be launched, ending the Pawnee War of 1859.

In the fall of 1859, the Mormon Colony was forced to abandon Genoa when the town and surrounding area were incorporated into the newly created Pawnee Reservation.

On October 31, 1859, John Brown was found guilty of treason against the state of Virginia, inciting slave rebellion, and murder.

Its banner was again picked up by the Avar Imam Shamil, who fought against the Russians from 1834 until 1859.

The Foreign Legion acquitted itself particularly well against the Austrians at the battle of Magenta ( 4 June 1859 ) and at the Battle of Solferino ( 24 June ).

Lord Canning ( created earl in 1859 ), appointed Governor-General of India in 1856, became known as " Clemency Canning " as a term of derision for his efforts to restrain revenge against the Indians during the Indian Mutiny.

With the war against Spain ( 1859 – 1860 ) came direct involvement in European affairs — although the independence of Morocco was guaranteed in the Conference of Madrid ( 1880 ), the French gained ever greater influence.

The earliest match in CricketArchive which involved Grace was in 1859, only a few days after his eleventh birthday, when he played for Clifton Cricket Club against the South Wales Cricket Club at Durdham Down, his team winning by 114 runs.

Also there, on February 21, 1859, together with 151 republicans he signed a manifesto against the alliance between Piedmont and the King of France which resulted in the Second War of Italian Independence and the conquest of Lombardy.

In June 1859 the inhabitants rebelled against the temporal authority of the Pope and established a provisional government, but the insurrection was quashed bloodily by Pius IX's troops.

Houston ran twice for governor of Texas as a Unionist, unsuccessfully in 1857, and successfully against Hardin R. Runnels in 1859.

A brief war against Austria in 1859 largely brought an end to the process of Italian unification.

The Italo-French campaign against Austria in 1859 started successfully.

In 1859 Emperor Napoleon III and Camillo Cavour, the prime minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia, signed a treaty of alliance against Austria: France would help Sardinia to fight against Austria and Sardinia, in return, would give Nice and Savoy to France.

The Battle of Magenta was fought on June 4, 1859 during the Second Italian War of Independence, resulting in a French-Sardinian victory under Napoleon III against the Austrians under Marshal Ferencz Gyulai.

The Battle of Solferino ( referred to in Italy as the Battle of Solferino and San Martino ) on 24 June 1859 resulted in the victory of the allied French Army under Napoleon III and Sardinian Army under Victor Emmanuel II ( together known as the Franco-Sardinian Alliance ) against the Austrian Army under Emperor Franz Joseph I.

He died on 22 May 1859, shortly after the Second French Empire and the Kingdom of Sardinia had declared war against the Austrian Empire.

… set in 1859 in Pennsylvania, and follows the exploits of oil prospector Scott as he struggles against various varmints and vested interests out to wreck his business, and tries to keep his marriage to Irene Dunne intact, despite the tempting presence of saloon singer Dorothy Lamour.

A terrible battle took place at Solferino in 1859 during the campaign by France and Piedmont against the Austrian empire.

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.

With the growth of the schooling system came fresh theories and philosophies of education such as those of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi who would influence the likes of Herbert Spencer who in his essays on education ( 1854 and 1859 ) argued against the traditional authoritative classical form of education that disregarded the natural wishes, tendencies, and motives of the child In turn there were many further pioneers such as Charlotte Mason, Caroline Southwood Hill and Susan Sutherland Isaacs.

Important minor works are Essais historiques, published in French under the auspices of Frederick the Great ( Berlin, 1780 ); Reisen der Päpste ( new ed., Aix-la-Chapelle, 1831 ; French translation, 1859 ), written against the anti-papal reforms of Joseph II, although he was a Protestant ; and Vierundzwanzig Bücher allgemeiner Geschichten, lectures delivered in Switzerland ( 3 vols., Tübingen, 1811 ; often republished ).

He then studied at Columbia for two years where he was a member of the Philolexian Society debating club and then, against his parents ' wishes, transferred to the Naval Academy, where he graduated second in his class in 1859.

He protested against it ( in a university sermon in 1859 ) and, though he came to defend those who were accused of breaking the law in their practice of it, said that their practice was alien to his own.