Impressionism originated in the 1860s and 1870s and grew, in part, from the realism of such painters as Courbet and Corot.

In the 1860s, Corot became interested in photography, taking photos himself and becoming acquainted with many early photographers, which had the effect of suppressing his painting palette even more in sympathy with the monochromic tones of photographs.

The Afroasiatic language family was originally referred to as " Hamito-Semitic ", a term introduced in the 1860s by the German scholar Karl Richard Lepsius.

George Kennan, an American working on the Western Union Telegraph Expedition in the late 1860s, found that dog sled travel on the lower Anadyr was limited by lack of firewood.

Beard and typified by Howard K. Beale ) argued that the Republican Party in the 1860s was a tool of corrupt business interests, and that Johnson stood for the people.

During the 1860s the family was banished from Constantinople to Adrianople, and then finally to the penal-colony of Acre, Palestine when he was 24.

In the 1860s, aided by the War, " New York " style baseball expanded into a national game, as its first governing body, The National Association of Base Ball Players was formed.

The immense size of the Union army ( the largest on the planet toward the end of the Civil War ), however, was viewed with increasing concern by Maritimers throughout the early 1860s.

In this desire to seek to establish Biblical truth and test out orthodox Christian beliefs through independent scriptural study he was not alone and, amongst other churches, he also had links with Adventist movement and with Benjamin Wilson ( who later set up the Church of God of the Abrahamic Faith in the 1860s ).

The emergence and development of the destroyer, up until World War II, was related to the invention of the self-propelled torpedo in the 1860s.

By the early 1860s, the relationship between the imperial court and the Shogunate was changing radically.

Finland started out as a relatively poor country that was vulnerable to shocks to the economy such as the great famine of the 1860s.

Invented by Richard Gatling, it is known for its use by the Union forces during the American Civil War in the 1860s, which was the first time it was employed in combat.

By the 1860s, the supply of timber was exhausted.

In Europe and America, a broader movement of " free love " was also emerging from the 1860s among first-wave feminists and radicals of the libertarian left.

The Association of German Women's Organizations ( BDF ) was established in 1894 to encompass the proliferating women's organizations that had sprung up since the 1860s.

In the early 1860s, when the United States Congress was considering organizing a new territory in the Rocky Mountains, eccentric lobbyist George M. Willing suggested the name " Idaho ," which he claimed was derived from a Shoshone language term meaning " the sun comes from the mountains " or " gem of the mountains ".

It was not until after the Civil War in the 1860s that steam-powered manufacturing overtook water-powered manufacturing, allowing the industry to fully spread across the nation.

Steel is often cited as the first of several new areas for industrial mass-production, which are said to characterise a " Second Industrial Revolution ", beginning around 1850, although a method for mass manufacture of steel was not invented until the 1860s, when Sir Henry Bessemer invented a new furnace which could convert wrought iron into steel in large quantities.

During the mid 1860s he was the main proponent of isolationism and the instrument of the persecution of native and foreign Catholics.

The 1790 Act limited naturalization to " free white persons "; it was expanded to include blacks in the 1860s and Asians in the 1950s.

Booth was a member of the prominent 19th century Booth theatrical family from Maryland and, by the 1860s, was a well-known actor.

The name Jotunheimen was first popularized by Aasmund Olafson Vinje, who spent much time in the area in the 1860s.

Most of these were still operating in the 1860s, but the dominating iron works was the one in nearby Bofors.

Ménière's disease had been recognized as early as 1860s, but it was still relatively vague and broad at the time.

Economic upturns in the 1850s and 1860s saw smaller booms in railway construction, but these never reached anywhere near the scale of the Mania – partly due to more thoughtful ( if still very limited ) government control, partly due to more cautious investors and partly because the UK railway network was approaching maturity, with none of the ' blank canvas ' available to numerous companies as in the 1840s.

The Anglo-Bavarian Brewery was built in the 1860s and still dominates the western parts of Shepton Mallet ; fairly nearby is a former workhouse and then hospital, the Norah Fry Hospital, which was built in 1848 and has now been converted into housing.

Carronades were nevertheless still used in the American Civil War in the 1860s.

By the 1860s, Fort Payne and the surrounding area were still sparsely settled.

Erected sometime in the early 1860s, the Old Columbia Jail is today one of the last wooden jails still standing in Alabama.

While placer mining had played out in much of the Gold Country by the early 1860s, it was still active here as late as 1870.

In the late 1860s, the town opened its own newspaper, the Stanford Banner ( still publishing as the Interior Journal ).

The United States ' first Grange Hall was erected in Fredonia during the late 1860s ( the Fredonia Grange was established on April 16, 1868 ), and the original building ( Grange Hall # 1 ) still stands on Main Street.

Steam locomotives could not operate on the Beck Hole incline ; so in the early 1860s the North Eastern Railway started construction of an alternate route which opened in 1865 – this is the route which is still in use today.

Gustave Eiffel built many such bridges in France in the 1860s, some surviving and still carrying railway traffic.

Although occasional boats were still reaching Bourne in 1857, the self-acting doors at Tongue End were replaced by a sluice in the 1860s, which prevented passage from the Glen to the Bourne Eau, although the right of navigation was not officially revoked until 1962, as part of flood defence measures which included the replacement of the sluice by a pumping station in 1966.

The earliest conflicts in the 1840s happened at a time when Māori were still the predominant power, but by the 1860s settler numbers and resources were much greater.

A few Iroquois still returned to fish, but by the 1860s fish stocks were greatly depleted.

After Italian unification in the 1860s, Austria-Hungary still controlled territory Italian nationalists still claimed as part of Italy.

The name Starr Hills is still used for a residential home named after the eponymous residence constructed in the 1860s for Richard Ansdell, which was transformed into a hospital during World War I, before assuming its present use.

Given its harbors and fortifications, Saint Thomas still retained a strategic importance, and thus, in the 1860s, during the American Civil War and its aftermath, the United States government considered buying the island and its neighbors from Denmark for $ 7. 5 million, but at the time failed to find domestic legislative support for the bid.

The phrase was also used to describe California in the 1860s, and by Clement Laird Vallandigham to describe the land of the Mississippi plains None of these remained a widely used to describe a region, though it is still occasionally used to describe the United States overall.

As a result the LB & SCR was never at the forefront of carriage development in the United Kingdom for its ordinary coaching stock, and as late as the mid 1860s was still building open-side 3rd-class carriages.

The village was on the boundary of the 1860s London Coal Tax area, two posts still stand.

Aboriginal people were still present in the 1820s, but disease and displacement had driven them out by the 1860s.

A small settlement was established in the 1860s, known as Waldau, which was home to many German settlers, who planted the large areas of pine trees that still exist today.