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.

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

Conquered Guatemala was part of the Spanish Empire for approximately 300 years, when it became independent in 1821, when it was part of the Mexican Empire ( 1821 – 23 ) until becoming fully independent in the 1840s.

Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine, who had been a leader of the moderate republicans in France during the 1840s became the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Provisional Government that was established by this Assembly.

In the 1840s, two decades after the Monroe Doctrine declared U. S. intentions to be the dominant anti-European imperial power in the Western Hemisphere, North American and French interests became excited about the prospects of constructing railroads and / or canals through Central America to quicken trans-oceanic travel.

John Elliotson was a brilliant but erratic heart specialist became a phrenologist in the 1840s, he was also a mesmerist and combined the two into something he called phrenomesmerism or phrenomegnatism.

When he died in the 1840s, his eldest son became King Paolo I.

Beginning in the late 1840s, major news organizations, clergymen, and single women became increasingly concerned about prostitution, which came to be known as " The Great Social Evil ".

The Worcestershire variety became popular in the 1840s and is a legacy of the British rule of the Indian subcontinent.

The Advent Movement emerged in the 1830s and 1840s in North America, and was preached by ministers such as William Miller, whose followers became known as Millerites.

The modern history of Wales starts in the 19th century when South Wales became heavily industrialised with ironworks ; this, along with the spread of coal mining to the Cynon and Rhondda valleys from the 1840s, led to a increase in population.

After Finland became part of the Russian Empire ( 1809 ), and the capital of the Grand Duchy of Finland was moved to Helsinki ( 1812 ), Turku continued to be the most populous city in Finland, until the end of the 1840s.

The Glastonbury Canal ran just over through two locks from Glastonbury to Highbridge where it entered the Bristol Channel in the early 19th century, but it became uneconomic with the arrival of the railway in the 1840s.

After the advent of the telegraph, simultaneous surface weather observations became possible for the first time, and beginning in the late 1840s, the Smithsonian Institution became the first organization to draw real-time surface analyses.

In the early 1840s, the younger members of the repeal movement became impatient with O ’ Connell ’ s over-cautious policies, and began to question his intentions.

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.

Eufaula became politically powerful, and the " Eufaula Regency ," as early as the late 1840s, supported secession of Alabama from the United States.

When he died in the 1840s, his eldest son became King Paolo I.

Heine looked down on these writers on aesthetic grounds – they were bad poets in his opinion – but his verse of the 1840s became more political too.

Settlement was sporadic until the late 1840s, when Opelika quickly became a commercial center with the coming of the railroad.

The village itself was laid out by Myrvin Benjamin, and for awhile it was called DuPage, after the river that cut through the area. 1 In the 1840s, the name of the area became Swifton, after the I & M Canal board president.

During the 1840s, mining became a part of Neosho when lead was discovered.

By the 1840s and 1850s, white settlers began hay, grain, and livestock operations in what became eastern Multnomah County.

The forces that impelled Dickens to create a powerful, impressive, and enduring tale were the profoundly humiliating experiences of his childhood, the plight of the poor and their children during the boom decades of the 1830s and 1840s, Washington Irving's essays on Christmas published in his Sketch Book ( 1820 ) describing the traditional old English Christmas, fairy tales and nursery stories, as well as satirical essays and religious tracts.

" Official " Christmas cards began with Queen Victoria in the 1840s.

Since being invented in London in the 1840s, Christmas crackers are an integral part of Christmas celebrations, often pulled before or after dinner, or at parties.

Awareness that older kinds of song were being abandoned prompted renewed interest in collecting folk songs during the 1830s and 1840s, including the work of William B. Sandys ' Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern ( 1833 ), William Chappell, A Collection of National English Airs ( 1838 ) and Robert Bell's Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England ( 1846 ).

It is the second in his series of " Christmas books ": five short books with strong social and moral messages that he published during the 1840s.

The influential 1840s image of the Queen's decorated evergreen was republished in the U. S, and as the first widely circulated picture of a decorated Christmas tree in America, the custom there spread.

The three brothers and four sisters traced their roots to their great-grandfather who had immigrated to the United States from Denmark in the 1840s.

The elder Frederick, a Danish military officer, had been one ( and perhaps the foremost ) of the candidates of Christian VIII of Denmark in the 1840s to succeed to the Danish throne if the latter's male line died out, but renounced his rights to the throne in 1851 in favor of his sister, Louise.

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.

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.

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

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

For a short period in the late 1840s, Germany was united with Hoffman's borders, with a democratic constitution in the make, and with the black-red-gold flag to represent it.

Sometime in the early 1850s, the original plaque marking Allen's grave disappeared ; its original text was preserved by early war historian Benson Lossing in the 1840s.

Bannister was born in St. Andrews, New Brunswick and moved to New England in the late 1840s, where he remained for the rest of his life.

The robust X-bracing typical of the steel-string was developed in the 1840s by German-American luthiers of whom C. F.

The theory was popularized in the 1840s by Scottish writer Thomas Carlyle, and in 1860 Herbert Spencer formulated a counter-argument that has remained influential throughout the 20th century to the present ; Spencer said that such great men are the products of their societies, and that their actions would be impossible without the social conditions built before their lifetimes.

However, by the 1840s, trunk lines did link the major cities ; each German state was responsible for the lines within its own borders.

Not only was good passenger service established by the late 1840s, but an excellent network of freight lines reduce the cost of shipping coal, and made products manufactured in Scotland competitive throughout Britain.

The Irish potato famine of the 1840s was caused by a plant disease that reached the Highlands in 1846, where 150, 000 people faced disaster because their food supply was largely potatoes ( with a little herring, oatmeal and milk ).

It was generally accepted as a term for Indiana residents by the 1840s, and as it came into common usage, the debates about the term's origin began.

Eric Hobsbawm held that it ' broke out ' in Britain in the 1780s and was not fully felt until the 1830s or 1840s, while T. S. Ashton held that it occurred roughly between 1760 and 1830.

In the 1830s and 1840s the Chartist movement was the first large scale organised working class political movement which campaigned for political equality and social justice.

However, by the 1840s, trunk lines linked the major cities ; each German state was responsible for the lines within its own borders.

Nevertheless, he was influential among some of the American individualists ; in the 1840s and 1850s, Charles A. Dana, and William B. Greene introduced Proudhon's works to the United States.