William Sydney Porter ( September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910 ), known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American writer.

Local government was trialled in the new Colony with a ' Bathurst and Carcoar District Council ' established on 12 August 1843, Bathurst was proclaimed a town in 1852 and incorporated as a borough in 1862, next a municipality in 1883, then gazetted a city in on 20 March 1885. the same day as Sydney was declared a city.

Nature loving artists of previous generations are numerous, however some of the more idiosyncratic examples were Merric Boyd ( 1862 – 1940 ) and Sydney Long ( 1871 – 1955 ).

* William Sydney Wilson ( 1816 – 1862 ), prominent Confederate politician

A post office opened in 1862 and a village called ' Jewnee ' was gazetted in 1863 on the wool road to Sydney.

* Commercial Banking Company of Sydney ( 1862 ) ( demolished 1956 )

* THE LIGURIAN OR ITALIAN ALP-BEE The Sydney Morning Herald 30th Oct 1862

At the Methodist Conference of 1862, the Rev John Manton proposed that a collegiate institute, " decidedly Wesleyan in character ", be founded in Sydney.

The Sydney City Mission was established in 1862, Brisbane City Mission independently established in 1859 and Adelaide City Mission ( later Mission SA ) in 1867.

* SS Golden Age ( 1854 – 1862 ): Built for New York & Australian Navigation Company in 1853, she operated in Australian coastal services until May 12, 1854 when she sailed from Sydney for Tahiti and Panama City, arriving June 17.

Alfred Percy Marr ( 28 March 1862 in Pyrmont, Sydney – 15 March 1940 in Arncliffe, New South Wales ) was an Australian cricketer who played in one Test in 1885.

The earliest known event described as " grand " in Sydney was a cricket match in 1862.

Advancing up the Rio Grande, Sibley ’ s command clashed with Canby ’ s Union force at Valverde on February 21, 1862.

" This view of Carson's actions may be taken from General James Carleton ’ s orders to Carson on October 12, 1862, concerning the Mescalero Apaches: " All Indian men of that tribe are to be killed whenever and wherever you can find them: the women and children will not be harmed, but you will take them prisoners and feed them at Ft. Stanton until you receive other instructions ".

Their first game was at the MCG on New Year ’ s Day 1862, against a Victorian XVIII.

Ericsson became widely famous when he built the Monitor, an armoured battleship that in 1862 fought the Confederate States ’ Virginia in an American Civil War sea battle.

The death of Henry senior at the age of 82 occurred in 1862 and although his own son was not a business man of the same determination, the firm ’ s expansion continued adequately with John Mares, who had come to the financial assistance of the Shepherd Brewery during the recession of the mid-1840s and continued as the impetus behind Shepherd and Mares until Percy Beale Neame joined the Brewery in 1864.

Similar to Recreative Science was the scientific journal titled Popular Science Review, created in 1862, which covered different fields of science by creating subsections titled ‘ Scientific Summary ’ or ‘ Quarterly Retrospect ,’ with book reviews and commentary on the latest scientific works and publications.

Then, on the morning of 22 March 1862, between eight and nine o ’ clock Greenwich Time, another amateur astronomer, a Mr Lummis of Manchester, England, saw a transit.

On October 25, 1862, Boone ’ s forces were once again discovered, this time near Pike Creek in western Carter County.

When James Ross died in 1862, his wife, Annie Ross, was forced to sell a portion of James Ross ’ larger land holdings to pay each of their daughters $ 10, 000.

However, Eleanora ’ s brother, Heinrich Fischover, wrote to his mother from Germany in 1862 or 1863:

In addition to being home to the area ’ s first settler, Antoine Plante, the Spokane Valley had the first business and first ferry in 1850 ; the first store ( 1862 ) and bridge ( 1864 ); the first house ( 1866 ); and the first post office ( 1867 ).

The city ’ s name was changed to Puebla de Zaragoza in 1862, by a decree issued by Benito Juárez and the holiday “ 5 de Mayo ” ( Cinco de Mayo ) is a major annual event here.

**" John Bull ’ s Neutrality ", 1 November, 1862

With Charles Wheatstone ’ s revolving mirror he, in 1862, determined the speed of light to be 298, 000 km / s ( about 185, 000 mi ./ s ) — 10, 000 km / s less than that obtained by previous experimenters and only 0. 6 % off the currently accepted value.

It was in early July 1862 at Harrison ’ s Landing, that a corporal of Tidball ’ s Battery A, 2nd Artillery, died.

The University of South Dakota is the state ’ s oldest public university and was founded in 1862 and classes began in 1882.

“… A congressional committee in 1849 reported that Brandreth was the nation ’ s largest proprietary advertiser … Between 1862 and 1863 Brandreth ’ s average annual gross income surpassed $ 600, 000 …” For fifty years Brandreth ’ s name was a household word in the United States Indeed, the Brandreth pills were so well known they received mention in Herman Melville's classic novel Moby Dick.

In November 1970, the Hearst Corporation ’ s Harper ’ s Bazaar UK ( founded in 1929 ) and Queen magazine ( which dated from 1862 ) amalgamated to form Harpers & Queen.

In 1862, Thomson published " On the age of the sun ’ s heat ", an article in which he reiterated his fundamental beliefs in the indestructibility of energy ( the first law ) and the universal dissipation of energy ( the second law ), leading to diffusion of heat, cessation of useful motion ( work ), and exhaustion of potential energy through the material universe while clarifying his view of the consequences for the universe as a whole.

It was in this period that Chapman began to manifestly deviate from Garrisonian ideaology, by endorsing the Republican party and later by supporting both the American Civil War and Abraham Lincoln ’ s proposal in 1862 for gradual, compensated slave emancipation.

Léon Foucault used an experiment which used rotating mirrors to obtain a value of 298, 000, 000 m / s in 1862.

Colonel s Albert V. Colburn, Delos B. Sackett and General John Sedgwick in Harrison's Landing, Virginia during the Peninsula Campaign, 1862.

The 21st, arriving in Virginia, saw its first major combat in late 1862 during the battle of Fredericksburg, endured heavy casualties at Drury ‘ s Bluff in 1863, and participated in Grant ‘ s drive on Richmond in mid-to late 1864.

In this passage Lewis Carroll incorporated references to the original boating expedition of 4 July 1862 during which Alice's Adventures were first told, with Alice as herself, and the others represented by birds: the Lory was Lorina Liddell, the Eaglet was Edith Liddell, the Dodo was Dodgson, and the Duck was Rev.

In this passage Lewis Carroll incorporated references to everyone present on the original boating expedition of July 4, 1862 during which Alice's Adventures were first told, with Alice as herself, and the others represented by birds: the Lory was Lorina Liddell, the Eaglet was Edith Liddell, the Dodo was Lewis Carroll, and the Duck was Rev.

After the first battle between two ironclads took place in 1862 during the American Civil War, it became clear that the ironclad had replaced the unarmoured line-of-battle ship as the most powerful warship afloat.

* 1862 – Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the first pasteurization tests.

After a few presidents of the Provisional Junta, there were again consuls of the republic, 14 March 1841 – 13 March 1844 ( ruling jointly, but occasionally styled " first consul ", " second consul "): Carlos Antonio López Ynsfrán ( b. 1792 – d. 1862 ) + Mariano Roque Alonzo Romero ( d. 1853 ) ( the lasts of the aforementioned juntistas, Commandant-General of the Army )

The first publication of a bartenders ' guide which included cocktail recipes was in 1862 — How to Mix Drinks ; or, The Bon Vivant's Companion, by " Professor " Jerry Thomas.

Although The Moonstone is usually seen as the first detective novel, a number of critics suggest that the lesser known Notting Hill Mystery ( 1862 – 63 ), written by the pseudonymous " Charles Felix ", preceded it by a number of years and first used techniques that would come to define the genre.

* 1862 – Four nuns serving as volunteer nurses on board USS Red Rover are the first female nurses on a U. S. Navy hospital ship.

* 1862 – American Civil War: The U. S. Navy gives the Union its first victory of the war, capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee in the Battle of Fort Henry.

The first commercial oil well in the Rocky Mountains was drilled near Canon City, Colorado in 1862.

The first German Fencing Club was founded in Hanover in 1862.

Iowa was the first state in the nation to accept the provisions of the Morrill Act of 1862.

* 1862 – The first American ironclad warship, the is launched.

John Macdonald's mother was a lifelong influence on her son, helping him in his difficult first marriage and remaining a force in his life until her 1862 death.

* 1862 – American Civil War: David Farragut is promoted to rear admiral, becoming the first officer in United States Navy to hold an admiral rank.

* 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs – The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict.

He first visited Vienna in 1862, staying there over the winter, and, in 1863, was appointed conductor of the Vienna Singakademie.

Indeed, the first modernization of Malory's great compilation of Arthur's tales was published shortly after Idylls appeared, in 1862, and there were six further editions and five competitors before the century ended.

Claude Bernard and he completed the first test on April 20, 1862.

* 1862 – American Civil War: The and fight to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first battle between two ironclad warships.

In 1863 the Government passed the Colonial Defence Force Act 1862 creating the first Regular Force.

In February 1862, Nashville became the first state capital to fall to Union troops.

* 1862 – Royal Columbian Hospital ( RCH ) opens as the first hospital in the Canadian province of British Columbia