Ottoman responses to this European economic challenge are relatively unknown, and even the extensive and costly Ottoman industrial efforts of the 1840s seemingly have been dismissed as the casual, if not comical games of disinterested bureaucrats ... What were the nature and magnitude of these Ottoman responses?

One such conflict was the Northern or Flagstaff War of the 1840s, during which the town of Kororareka was destroyed.

Originally an agricultural market town, the construction of the Erie Railroad ( now Norfolk Southern ) in the 1840s made Binghamton the commercial and then the manufacturing hub of the Southern Tier of New York and the adjacent counties in Pennsylvania.

After 1903 it became a recreational hall to commemorate Dr John Harrison ( who was a physician in Roscommon town ’ s workhouse, during the famine of the 1840s ) it was used as a dance hall, cinema and theatre before it was sold to the Bank of Ireland in 1972.

New Hamburg, the third town founded in the county, was settled by German immigrants in the 1840s.

During the 1840s many of the streets laid out by the town fathers had yet to be opened to traffic.

Apaches attacked the town repeatedly in the 1840s, forcing the Sonoran Mexicans to abandon both Tumacocori and Tubac.

The community began to develop in the 1840s as the first real town in San Mateo County.

Smaller communities, with their own churches, post offices, mills, and stores, emerged in Burch ’ s Falls ( renamed Clark ’ s Falls in the 1860s ) and Laurel Glen, both in the eastern end of town, and Ashwillet and Pendleton Hill ( known as Pauchunganuc until the 1840s ), located respectively in the northwestern and northeastern corners of the town.

During the late 1840s and early 1850s the town grew more rapidly.

From the 1840s to the 1870s, the town almost tripled in size, from its original six acres to more than sixteen acres.

The town of Buras was established, informally, in the 1840s.

In the 1840s, a large paper mill was built on Vine Brook, that supplied many of the jobs in town.

By the late 1840s, however, tensions between the village of Mattapoisett and the town led to a battle which sought to redraw the town lines and effectively take over Sippican Village.

However in the early 1840s a large influx of new residents increased the size of the town and scope of business offerings.

The town was renamed Butler in the late 1840s, but the city encountered mail delivery problems due to the existence of another Missouri town named Butler and a Missouri county named Butler.

* Welsh Settlement – A former designation for the southwest part of the town, settled in the 1840s by many natives of Wales.

The railroad, developed in the 1840s, bypassed the town of Somers, and affected a decline in growth over the next hundred years.

Settled in the 1840s, the town was platted in 1850 and then incorporated in 1872 and was the first city in Washington County.

The town was derelict immediately after the Texas Revolution, but was eventually rebuilt on the original site throughout the early 1840s.

Settled in the late 1840s, the town has gone by several names including " Mink's Prairie " and " Mink ".

With the start of the Western incursion into China in the 1840s, the rich and mercantile south Jiangsu was increasingly exposed to Western influence ; Shanghai, originally an unremarkable little town of Jiangsu, quickly developed into a metropolis of trade, banking, and cosmopolitanism, and was split out later as an independent municipality.

The ballad type is classified as D 280 in The Types of the Scandinavian Medieval Ballad ; the variant from Västmanland that Dybeck reproduced is classified as SMB 133 G. It was recorded by Rosa Wretman in the beginning of the 1840s.

The Welsh Indian legend was revived in the 1840s and 1850s ; this time the Zunis, Hopis, and Navajo were claimed to be of Welsh descent, by George Ruxton ( Hopis, 1846 ), P. G. S. Ten Broeck ( Zunis, 1854 ), and Abbé Emmanuel Domenach ( Zunis, 1860 ), among others.

The Devil and Daniel Webster ( also known as All That Money Can Buy, 1941 ) is a gothic fantasy and loose adaptation of the Faust legend set in 1840s New Hampshire.

Local legend has it that the name " Roaring Camp " is historical too, coming from the moniker that Mexican authorities gave to what was then, in the 1840s, the wild settlement of Zayante, founded by mountain man Isaac Graham.

Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was mostly self-educated, and became a country lawyer, a Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator during the 1830s, and a one-term member of the United States House of Representatives during the 1840s.

The other major family of abugidas, Canadian Aboriginal syllabics, was initially developed in the 1840s by missionary and linguist James Evans for the Cree and Ojibwe languages.

The work of Lavoisier was translated in Japan in the 1840s, through the process of Rangaku.

As late as the 1840s, and despite Friedrich Wöhler's synthesis of urea in 1828, some chemists still believed in the doctrine of vitalism, according to which a special life-force was necessary to create organic compounds.

In the 1840s fossils of brachiopods and trilobites from the Silurian period were discovered at Woolshed Creek near Duntroon.

Throughout 1840s and the 1850s settlers continued to come to Ann Arbor.

In the 1840s several new dances made their appearance in the ballroom, including the Polka, Mazurka, and the Schottische.

Banjos were introduced in Britain by Sweeney's group, the American Virginia Minstrels, in the 1840s, and became very popular in music halls.

During the 1840s Disraeli wrote three political novels collectively known as " the Trilogy "– Sybil, Coningsby, and Tancred.

One contemporary who tried to bridge the gap, William Makepeace Thackeray, established a tentative cordial relationship in the late 1840s only to see everything collapse when Disraeli took offence at a burlesque of him which Thackeray penned for Punch.

After six years in opposition, Disraeli and the Conservative Party won the election of 1874, giving the party its first absolute majority in the House of Commons since the 1840s.

A large number of bunyip sightings occurred during the 1840s and 1850s, particularly in the southeastern colonies of Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia, as European settlers extended their reach.

In the 1840s and 1850s the Museum supported excavations in Assyria by A. H. Layard and others at sites such as Nimrud and Nineveh.

In the 1830s and 1840s a new development took place with the Permanent Building Society, where the society continued on a rolling basis, continually taking in new members as earlier ones completed purchases, such as Leek United Building Society.

Morse code was introduced in the 1840s and is used to encode each letter of the Latin alphabet, each Arabic numeral, and some other characters via a series of long and short presses of a telegraph key.

The possibility to use cadmium yellow as pigment was recognized in the 1840s but the lack of cadmium limited this application.

He deciphered the Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus, a 5th century Greek manuscript of the New Testament, in the 1840s, and rediscovered the Codex Sinaiticus, a 4th century New Testament manuscript, in 1859.

Positive-Historical Judaism, the intellectual forerunner to Conservative Judaism, was developed as a school of thought in the 1840s and 1850s in Germany.

Before the early 1840s, the cane toad had been introduced into Martinique and Barbados, from French Guiana and Guyana.

The first cement to consistently contain alite was made by Joseph Aspdin's son William in the early 1840s.

By the 1840s, students at Rugby School were playing a game in which players were able to pick up the ball and run with it, a sport later known as Rugby football.

Rhyming slang is believed to have originated in the mid-19th century in the East End of London, with several sources suggesting some time in the 1840s.

According to Partridge ( 1972: 12 ), it dates from around 1840 and arose in the East End of London, however John Camden Hotten in his 1859 Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant and Vulgar Words states that ( English ) rhyming slang originated " about twelve or fifteen years ago " ( i. e. in the 1840s ) with ' chaunters ' and ' patterers ' in the Seven Dials area of London.