When her brother Winslow became a student at Brown University in 1874, she wrote him about a course in history he was taking under Professor Diman: `` What is Prof. Diman's definition of civilization, and take the world through, is its progress ever onward, or does it retrograde at times??

In 1867 gas street lighting was implemented, the University of Adelaide was founded in 1874, the South Australian Art Gallery opened in 1881 and the Happy Valley Reservoir opened in 1896.

Alfonso XII ( born Alfonso Francisco de Asís Fernando Pío Juan María de la Concepción Gregorio Pelayo ) ( Madrid, 28 November 1857 – El Pardo, 25 November 1885 ) was King of Spain, reigning from 1874 to 1885, after a coup d ' état restored the monarchy and ended the ephemeral First Spanish Republic.

Within a few days after Canovas del Castillo took power as Premier, the new king, proclaimed on 29 December 1874, arrived at Madrid, passing through Barcelona and Valencia and was acclaimed everywhere ( 1875 ).

As editor of the Journal für praktische Chemie ( Journal of practical chemistry, from 1870 to 1884 ), Kolbe was sometimes so severely critical of the work of others, especially after about 1874, that some wondered whether he might have been suffering a mental illness.

HH Abbas II Hilmi Bey ( also known as Abbas Hilmi Pasha ) () ( 14 July 1874 – 19 December 1944 ) was the last Khedive of Egypt and Sudan ( 8 January 1892 – 19 December 1914 ).

was born on 14 July 1874.

Besides fulfilling other journalistic engagements, Beckett was on the staff of Punch from 1874 to 1902, edited the Sunday Times 1891-1895, and the Naval and Military Magazine in 1896.

The journal began as The Analyst in 1874 and was established and edited by Joel E. Hendricks.

When Eadgils ' mound ( to the left in the photo ) was excavated in 1874, the finds supported Beowulf and the sagas.

Her work was selected for exhibition in six subsequent Salons until, in 1874, she joined the " rejected " Impressionists in the first of their own exhibitions, which included Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Alfred Sisley.

As prime minister 1868 to 1874 he headed a Liberal Party that was a coalition of Peelites like himself, Whigs and radicals ; Gladstone was now a spokesman for " peace, economy and reform.

In the 1874 general election Gladstone was defeated by the Conservatives under Disraeli during a sharp economic recession.

In the first election after the Act was passed ( 1885 ), thirteen were elected, up from two in 1874.

The first British railway to build coaches with bogies, instead of rigidly mounted axles, was the Midland Railway in 1874.

The main legislative framework for the Building Society was the Building Society Act of 1874, with subsequent amending legislation in 1894, 1939 ( see Coney Hall ), and 1960.

The name was really derived from the Norwegian blåhval, coined by Svend Foyn shortly after he had perfected the harpoon gun ; the Norwegian scientist G. O. Sars adopted it as the Norwegian common name in 1874.

It was first described, in 1874, by Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum in Die Katatonie oder das Spannungsirresein ( Catatonia or Tension Insanity ).

The Baudot code was created by Émile Baudot in 1870, patented in 1874, modified by Donald Murray in 1901, and standardized by CCITT as International Telegraph Alphabet No. 2 ( ITA2 ) in 1930.

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.

It was discovered in 1874 by Henry John Stephen Smith and introduced by German mathematician Georg Cantor in 1883.

The notion of cardinality, as now understood, was formulated by Georg Cantor, the originator of set theory, in 1874 – 1884.

In 1899, Ladislas Deutsch ( Laszlo Detre ) ( 1874 – 1939 ) named the hypothetical substances halfway between bacterial constituents and antibodies " substances immunogenes ou antigenes ".

Cadillac was originally named Clam Lake and was incorporated as a village in 1874.

Therefore they were not atoms, but a new particle, the first subatomic particle to be discovered, which he originally called " corpuscle " but was later named electron, after particles postulated by George Johnstone Stoney in 1874.

One of the first movements in Mussorgsky's 1874 work Pictures at an Exhibition, named " Gnomus " ( Latin for " The Gnome "), is written to sound as if a gnome is moving about, his movements constantly changing in speed.

" Cleveland admitted to paying child support in 1874 to Maria Crofts Halpin, the woman who claimed he fathered her child named Oscar Folsom Cleveland.

The Republic was dissolved and Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, a trusted advisor to the king, was named Prime Minister on New Year's Eve, 1874.

This area was named for German doctor Carl Wernicke, who discovered it in 1874 in the course of his research into aphasias ( loss of ability to speak ).

They spent the next 20 years together, and in 1874 they adopted a baby girl named Gertie.

The Bryce Canyon area was settled by Mormon pioneers in the 1850s and was named after Ebenezer Bryce, who homesteaded in the area in 1874.

Holst was born on 21 September 1874, at 4, Pittville Terrace ( named today Clarence Road ) Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.

In 1874, Bergh was approached by a Methodist missionary named Etta Wheeler, who sought help rescuing a child named Mary Ellen Wilson from her cruel abuser, Mary Connolly.

In 1874 the locality was named The Crushers after the name of the railway station that served a nearby quarry.

Chamberlain was born in Camberwell in London to a successful shoemaker and manufacturer, also named Joseph ( 1796 – 1874 ), and his wife Caroline Harben, daughter of Henry Harben.

The premier historian of Texas, Eugene C. Barker, for whom the Barker History Center on the campus of the University of Texas, Austin is named, was born in Walker County in 1874.

The county was established by the state legislature on March 13, 1874, and named for Thomas Green, a Confederate brigadier general.

It was named in honor of Charles Sumner, a U. S. Senator from Massachusetts ( 1811 – 1874 ), who was a strong advocate of Kansas becoming a free state.

It was named for the hot springs at Hot Springs, Arkansas, which were where within its boundaries until Garland County was formed in 1874.

Five German families moved to the area in March 1873 ; in 1874, the town was incorporated and named after Colonel Cullmann.

The Logan County seat, Paris, was named after the French capital in 1874.

The town was named in 1874 for Edwin Angwin who ran a resort on the land the town now occupies.

McRae was incorporated March 3, 1874 and was named for a pioneering Scottish family.

The town was laid out in 1874 and was named for Charles Dana who was a local railroad stockholder and famous newspaper editor.

Russell was incorporated and named the provisional county seat in 1872, and, after a two-year dispute with neighboring Bunker Hill, it became the permanent county seat in 1874.