Not long after moving in she turned up a richly carved desk, hewed from the timbers of the British ship H.M.S. Resolute and presented to President Hayes by Queen Victoria.

* 1858 – U. S. President James Buchanan inaugurates the new transatlantic telegraph cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.

The distinction of a Knight Commander of the Indian Empire was conferred upon him by Queen Victoria in 1897 ( and later Knight Grand Commander in 1902 by Edward VII ) and he received like recognition for his public services from the German Emperor, the Sultan of Turkey, the Shah of Persia and other potentates.

He was made a " Knight of the Indian Empire " by Queen Victoria, a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire by Edward VII ( 1902 ), and a Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India by George V ( 1912 ).

1929 portrait of King Alfonso XIIIOn 31 May 1906, at the Royal Monastery of San Geronimo in Madrid, Alfonso married Scottish-born Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg ( 1887 – 1969 ), a niece of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, and a granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.

* Queen Victoria – the British Weights and Measures Act of 1878 defined it as containing 4, 840 square yards.

* 1899 – The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria.

This provision has been dormant since Queen Victoria ascended the throne, because she did not inherit Hanover under the Salic Laws of the German states, but in principle it could again become relevant in the future.

In 1838, the Nova Scotia Baptist Education Society founded Queen's College ( named for Queen Victoria ).

In 1867 he was the first Ottoman sultan to visit Western Europe ; his trip included a visit to the United Kingdom, where he was made a Knight of the Garter by Queen Victoria and shown a Royal Navy Fleet Review with Ismail of Egypt.

In 1895, the Amir found himself unable, by reason of ill-health, to accept an invitation from Queen Victoria to visit England ; but his second son Nasrullah Khan went instead.

Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858 and, in 1871, it became the sixth province of Canada.

The capital of British Columbia is Victoria, the 15th largest metropolitan region in Canada, named for Canada's Queen at Confederation.

The province's name was chosen by Queen Victoria when the Colony of British Columbia, i. e. " the Mainland ", became a British colony in 1858.

Queen Victoria chose British Columbia to distinguish what was the British sector of the Columbia District from that of the United States (" American Columbia " or " Southern Columbia "), which became the Oregon Territory in 1848 as a result of the treaty.

In this feud, Disraeli was aided by his warm friendship with Queen Victoria, who came to detest Gladstone during the latter's first premiership in the 1870s.

Disraeli and Queen Victoria, during the latter's visit to Hughenden Manor at the height of the Eastern crisis.

New Crowns for Old depicts Disraeli as Abanazer from the pantomime version of Aladdin offering Queen Victoria | Victoria an imperial crown in exchange for a royal one. Disraeli cultivated a public image of himself as an Imperialist with grand gestures such as conferring on Queen Victoria the title “ Empress of India ”.

A leading proponent of the Great Game, Disraeli introduced the Royal Titles Act 1876, which created Queen Victoria Empress of India, putting her at the same level as the Russian Tsar.

Anne drew criticism from the Kirk for keeping Henrietta Gordon, wife of the exiled Catholic George Gordon, Marquess of Huntly, as a confidante ; after Huntly's return in 1596, the St Andrews minister David Black called Anne an atheist and remarked in a sermon that " the Queen of Scotland was a woman for whom, for fashion's sake, the clergy might pray but from whom no good could be hoped.

A northern chief, Nopera Panakareao, also early on summarised his understanding of the Treaty as " the shadow of the land is to the Queen, but the substance remains to us ", even as a British official later remarked that the

' It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards ,' the Queen remarked.

Queen Victoria, initially worried that Helena might turn out to be a stereotypically-remote German Princess, remarked in a letter to her eldest daughter Vicky ( German Empress, Queen of Prussia and Princess Royal ) that she was pleased Helena liked ' to go among the people.

Court officials remarked that when the Queen Consort ascended the throne, she was extremely exclusive in choosing who she associated with and confided with.

He also presented the Queen with a Gold Blue Peter badge when she visited the studio and remarked on presenting Her Majesty with the badge that " she could get into the Tower of London free with it ".

Queen Victoria is said to have remarked to the Duchess of Sutherland on arriving at Stafford House, " I have come from my House to your Palace.

He also remarked that Queen Elizabeth II " didn't have bad breasts ... for a woman of her age " and mocked 17 October 1989, San Francisco Loma Prieta earthquake with a re-creation on the set.

Without informing the rest of the cabinet or Queen Victoria, Palmerston had sent a private note to the French ambassador endorsing Louis Bonaparte's coup and congratulating Louis Bonaparte, himself, on the coup.

Queen Victoria and members of the Russell government demanded that Palmerston be dismissed as Foreign Minister.

Queen Victoria was not pleased with this statement, and an outraged Palmerston considered it seditious incitement to agitation.

Palmerston Park, home to the town's senior football team Queen of the South, is on Terregles Street, also on the Maxwelltown side of the river.

Palmerston's reputation as an interventionist and his unpopularity with the Queen and other Whig grandees was such that when Lord John Russell attempted in December 1845 to form a ministry, the combination failed because Lord Grey refused to join a government in which Palmerston should resume the direction of foreign affairs.

It is generally supposed that Russell and the Queen both hoped that the other would take the initiative and dismiss Palmerston ; the Queen was dissuaded by Prince Albert, who took the limits of constitutional power very seriously, and Russell by Palmerston's prestige with the people and his competence in an otherwise remarkably inept Cabinet.

In that same year, the Queen addressed a minute to the Prime Minister in which she recorded her dissatisfaction at the manner in which Palmerston evaded the obligation to submit his measures for the royal sanction as failing in sincerity to the Crown.

However Prince Albert came to learn of Palmerston's favourable opinion of the coup and the Queen learnt that Palmerston had sent a dispatch without showing it to her first, in which he protested that he had merely expressed his personal opinion.

There was a story that after a great wave of strikes swept Northern England, the Queen summoned Palmerston to discuss the situation.

Queen Victoria did not want to ask Palmerston to form a government and so asked Lord Derby to accept the premiership.

The Queen sent for Lansdowne but he was too old to accept: so she asked Russell ; but none of his former colleagues except Palmerston wanted to serve under him.

Having exhausted the possible alternatives, the Queen invited Palmerston to Buckingham Palace on 4 February 1855 to form a government.

" The censure motion was carried by a majority of sixteen and Palmerston requested to the Queen that Parliament be dissolved for a general election, which it duly was.

The Queen asked Lord Granville to form a government but although Palmerston agreed to serve under him, Russell did not.

Therefore, on 12 June the Queen asked Palmerston to become Prime Minister.

In June 1859 the Queen, embarrassed by the rival ambitions of Palmerston and Russell, sent for him to form a ministry, but he was unable to do so, and Palmerston again became prime minister, with Russell as foreign secretary-and Granville once again as president of the council.

The Duchess of Wellington was appointed Mistress of the Robes to Queen Victoria in 1861 by the Liberal Prime Minister Lord Palmerston, and continued in that role until 1868, serving through the governments of Lord Russell, Lord Derby and Benjamin Disraeli.

* Palmerston Park-home ground of Queen of the South F. C.

He also drew or painted Queen Adelaide, Prince George ( now Duke ) of Cambridge, and the Prince of Wales, when a boy ; Lord Palmerston, Lord Aberdeen, the Duke of Newcastle, and Mr. Gladstone ; Cardinal Manning, Archbishop Tait, and Dean Stanley ; Sir Thomas Watson, Syme, Alison, and Sir James Paget ; Prescott, Mrs. Beecher-Stowe, Darwin, Owen, and Tyndall, and a host of others.

Fort Picklecombe was commissioned in the mid 19th century by Lord Palmerston, Foreign Secretary and then Prime Minister under Queen Victoria.

Among these works were equestrian portraits of Queen Victoria and the prince consort, painted for Christ's Hospital ; the Prince of Wales ; an equestrian group of the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort ; Sidney Herbert, afterwards Lord Herbert of Lea ; Lord John Russell, afterwards Earl Russell ; Benjamin Disraeli, afterwards Earl of Beaconsfield ; General Sir James Hope Grant ; Sir George Grey ; Edward, earl of Derby, first lord of the treasury ; Lord Clyde ; Viscount Palmerston, painted for Harrow School ; Viscount Gough ; Lord Truro, lord high chancellor ; Sir Frederick Pollock, lord chief baron ; Sir William Erle, lord chief justice of the common pleas ; John Sumner, archbishop of Canterbury ; George Moberly, bishop of Salisbury ; and John Gibson Lockhart.

Palmerston, who became Prime Minister in June 1859, mooted Darwin's name to Queen Victoria as a candidate for the Honours List with the prospect of a knighthood.

Toronto West initially consisted of the portion of the city of Toronto east of Palmerston Avenue and north of Queen Street West.