The first of the Australian gold rushes, in the 1850s, began a large wave of immigration, with approximately two per cent of the population of the United Kingdom emigrating to the colonies of New South Wales and Victoria.

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.

Another statue commemorates the Prince Consort, Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, who held his major Irish Exhibition on Leinster Lawn in the 1850s.

From the 1850s, the colonies set about writing constitutions which produced democratically advanced parliaments as Constitutional Monarchies with Queen Victoria as the head of state.

During the 1850s, Victoria alone contributed more than one-third of the world ’ s gold output.

In the 1850s amateur “ ladies only ” events were held in Victoria, Australia but women were not permitted to ride as professional jockeys or on professional tracks.

During the 1850s amateur “ ladies only ” events were held in Victoria, Australia but women were not permitted to ride as professional jockeys or on professional tracks.

Some of the first recreational activities to take place in the harbour were water competitions such as swimming and water polo in 1850s within the members of Hong Kong's first sports club, the Victoria Recreation Club.

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert showed a keen interest in the establishment and development of Aldershot as a garrison town in the 1850s, at the time of the Crimean War.

From the 1850s, mechanics ' institutes quickly spread throughout Victoria wherever a hall, library or school was needed.

A major engineering project began in the 1880s to reroute the course of the Yarra River, which resulted in the widening of the river for shipping and the creation of a new Victoria Dock ( the name was previously used by one of the docks at Queensbridge as early as the 1850s ).

By the mid 1850s the Pitcairn community was outgrowing the island and they appealed to Queen Victoria for help.

* Graham Berry-Colonial politician, and 11th Premier of Victoria ; general storekeeper in South Yarra in the 1850s.

* Graham Berry-Colonial politician, and 11th Premier of Victoria, was a grocer in Prahran in the 1850s.

The town is reportedly named after Hugh Childers, British statesman, who was the Auditor-General of Victoria in the 1850s.

In Victoria, Australia, bluestone was one of the favoured building materials of the 1850s during the Victorian Gold Rush.

The area's dense bushland and easy access to the sea led to Penguin becoming a significant port town, with large quantities of timber shipped across Bass Strait to Victoria, where the 1850s gold rushes were taking place.

Father Patrick Dowd, pastor of Saint Patrick's Church, Montreal In the 1840s and 1850s, Irish immigrants laboured on the Victoria Bridge, living in a tent city at the foot of the bridge ( see Goose Village, Montreal ).

Fort Victoria was a single tier battery with defensible barracks west of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, England, built in the 1850s, later used as a submarine mining centre and training area for military purposes.

Stanley Robinson, in Transfer of Land in Victoria ( 1979 ) has argued that Ulrich Hübbe, a German lawyer living in South Australia in the 1850s, made the most important single contribution by adapting principles borrowed from the Hanseatic registration system in Hamburg.

These pressures gave rise to several violent protests against government policies across Victoria and New South Wales in the late 1850s and early 1860s.

As a result, about two per cent of the population of the British Isles emigrated to New South Wales and Victoria during the 1850s.

By the 1850s, Crombie had won quality awards from Queen Victoria and Napoleon III at the Great Exhibition in London and the Exposition Universelle in Paris respectively.

Extensive improvements were undertaken in the 1850s in preparation for the visit of Queen Victoria in 1861.

By the 1850s, slavery was still legal in the southern United States, but had been generally outlawed in the northern states, such as Illinois.

The passage of the Homestead Act and the Pacific Railway Acts was made possible by the absence of Southern congressmen and senators who had opposed the measures in the 1850s.

Slavery was the central source of escalating political tension in the 1850s.

The similar Murray Hill Tunnel on the New York and Harlem Railroad was built as an open cut around 1836, and roofed over around the 1850s, and is in use for automobile traffic.

Balsall Heath was agricultural land between Moseley village and the city of Birmingham until the 1850s when expansion along Moseley Road joined the two.

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

The second theory is that the rules of the modern game of croquet arrived from Ireland during the 1850s, perhaps after being brought there from Brittany where a similar game was played on the beaches.

Many examples are based on locations in London and, in all likelihood, will be meaningless to people unfamiliar with the capital e. g. " Peckham Rye ", meaning " tie " ( as in necktie ), which dates from the late 19th century ; " Hampstead Heath ", meaning " teeth " ( usually as " Hampsteads ”), which was first recorded in 1887 and " Barnet Fair ", meaning " hair ", which dates from the 1850s.

When the First Transcontinental Railroad was proposed in the 1850s, Atchison called for it to be built along the central route ( from St. Louis through Missouri, Kansas, and Utah ), rather the southern route ( from New Orleans through Texas and New Mexico ).

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.

The thermodynamic definition was developed in the early 1850s by Rudolf Clausius and essentially describes how to measure the entropy of an isolated system in thermodynamic equilibrium.

The corresponding noun " esotericism " was coined in French by Jacques Matter in 1828 and popularized by Eliphas Levi in the 1850s.

In the 1850s, he was especially outspoken in New York.

From the 1850s until his death, Kekule was one of the most prominent chemists in Europe, especially in theoretical chemistry.

Mayhew spent over ten years in Paris returning to England in the 1850s whereby he was involved in several literary adventures, mostly the writing of plays.

The same was also true for colonial America and for the United States until the 1850s.

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.

From the 1850s to the late 20th century the Clyde Puffer, made famous by the Vital Spark, was the workhorse of the islands, carrying all kinds of produce and products to and from the islands.

As the 1850s drew to a close, Booth was becoming wealthy as an actor, earning $ 20, 000 a year ( equivalent to about $ today ).

Mácha's genius was discovered and glorified much later by the poets and novelists of the 1850s ( e. g., Jan Neruda, Vítězslav Hálek, and Karolina Světlá ) and " Máj " is now regarded as the classic work of Czech Romanticism and is considered one of the best Czech poems ever written.

In the 1850s, he was the Agent to the Ute and Jicarilla Apaches.

Albert Richardson, who knew him personally in the 1850s, wrote that Kit Carson was " a gentleman by instinct, upright, pure, and simple-hearted, beloved alike by Indians, Mexicans, and Americans ".

Although the Fresnel lens was invented in 1822, it was not used in the U. S. until the 1850s due to the parsimonious administrator of the United States lighthouse establishment, Stephen Pleasonton.

Although the proposal was ridiculed and came to nothing ( and would almost certainly have failed if it had been built, due to the shortcomings of the technology proposed ), Pearson continued to lobby for a variety of railway schemes throughout the 1840s and 1850s.