This allowed ministries led by Russell, Palmerston and the Peelite Lord Aberdeen to hold office for most of the 1850s and 1860s.

The mid-19th century, especially the 1850s and 1860s, has long been seen as a " Golden Age " in the Maritimes.

Most clipper cards were printed in the 1850s and 1860s, and represented the first pronounced use of color in American advertising art.

Emigration totaled 480, 000 in the 1840s, 1, 200, 000 in the 1850s, and 780, 000 in the 1860s.

Many others, such as India, initiated their use in the 1850s, and by the 1860s most countries had stamps.

The invention of the minie balls in the 1840s solved the slow loading problem, and in the 1850s and 1860s rifles quickly replaced muskets on the battlefield.

In the 1850s and 1860s a group of patriotic writers and composers led by Francisco Barbieri and Joaquín Gaztambide revived the zarzuela form, seeing in it a possible release from French and Italian music hegemony.

Sullivan and Gilbert and their producer Richard D ' Oyly Carte themselves call their joint works comic operas to distinguish this family-friendly fare from the risqué French operettas of the 1850s and 1860s.

In addition, during this period, the number of popular science periodicals doubled from the 1850s to the 1860s.

Through the 1850s and 1860s, Italian nationalists made military gains against the Papal States, which culminated in the seizure of the city of Rome in 1870.

The opening of a number of secondary railways in the 1850s and 1860s developed Limerick as a regional centre of communications.

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 Australian gold rush of the 1850s and 1860s saw the first recorded plantings of European chestnut trees, brought in from Europe by the first settlers.

He is a descendent of one of the Swiss Italians of Australia who migrated to Australia in the 1850s and 1860s to areas such as Guildford, between Castlemaine and Daylesford.

Other paintings of the late 1850s and 1860s can be interpreted as anticipating aspects of the Aesthetic Movement.

A thriving mining camp on rich Pennsylvania Gulch in the 1850s and 1860s, the camp was named for Alfred Brown, former owner of Table Mountain Ranch.

In the late 1850s and 1860s, farmers began moving into of the prairies around newly renamed town and the town became the center of an exceptionally productive agricultural district.

Rather than a central square, the original plat of Stanford, like many towns laid out in the 1850s and 1860s, featured two rectangular public areas labeled as " Depot Grounds " which extended along either side of the tracks.

The 1850s, 1860s, and 1870s found Oxford a prospering commercial center, with such businesses as Oxford Carriage Factory, Oxford Machine Works, Oxford Valley Mills, Oxford Brewery and several furniture and cabinetry shops.

Most of the wooded sections of the township were logged in the 1850s and 1860s and much that wood was cut in Brownsdale's steam-powered sawmill, one of the town's first permanent structures.

Starting from Fort Smith, Arkansas, this trail was carved by thousands of Cherokee miners in the 1850s and 1860s, who sought gold mining rushes in Colorado, Wyoming and California

Development of the railroads in the 1850s and 1860s put the canals out of business and slowed the city's initially rapid growth.

Evidence of this chapter of history was uncovered early in March 2004 when road work uncovered artifacts dating to the 1850s and 1860s.

Anglo-Texan settlement began in the late 1850s and early 1860s supportive of the San Antonio-El Paso Overland Mail route.

By the 1850s, bunyip had also become a " synonym for imposter, pretender, humbug and the like " in the broader Australian community.

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

The same year that Booth's father married Holmes ( 1851 ), he built Tudor Hall on the Harford County property as the family's summer home, while also maintaining a winter residence on Exeter Street in Baltimore in the 1840s – 1850s.

Horse drawn drays were used to carry the Brewery ’ s ales throughout Kent, and malts were imported by barge at Faversham Creek at its own wharf which was also used as the means to deliver its product to London, until the 1850s when steamboats were beginning to prove more expeditious to the task.

His victory made him one of only two Whigs to be elected President before the party ceased to exist in the 1850s ; the other was William Henry Harrison, who had also been a general and war hero, but died a month into office.

The street is also home to two pubs, one being an 1850s hostelry The Leighton, the other The Torriano, which was for many years an old-fashioned community off-licence.

Millais also used his sister-in-law, Sophy Gray, then in her early teens, as the basis of some striking images in the mid to late 1850s, provoking suggestions of a mutual infatuation.

The creek also formed a portion of the now-filled Washington City Canal, which allowed passage through the city to the Anacostia River from 1815 until the 1850s.

Crescent was originally laid out by Joseph E. Johnson, a Latter-day Saint who also published a paper there in the 1850s.

Water power and wind power were also used to drive the machine, and by the 1850s portable steam engine machines were used.

Inkpaduta, a Mdewakanton Sioux Indian leader in the area from the 1850s until his departure to join Sitting Bull's band in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, camped at at the south end of the lake that gives the town its name both before and after his participation in the Spirit Lake massacre of 1857, and the Dakota War of 1862, also known as the Sioux uprising.

The I-House, which ranges primarily between the 1850s and 1900s, is also equally divided between wood and brick.

Today, Foster's legendary home on the banks of the Duwamish River is preserved as Fort Dent Park, as it also served as a military base during 1850s Indian Wars.

The style also proved popular in Ireland with George Jones ' Oliver Castle in the 1850s, for example, forming a good example of the fashion.

By the late 1850s, mining camps and military posts had not only transformed the Arizona countryside ; they had also generated new trade linkages to the province of Sonora, Mexico.

Rillieux also turned his engineer skills to dealing with a Yellow Fever outbreak in New Orleans in the 1850s.

He also became a public voice for the Southern American viewpoint in the United States in the 1850s and 1860s before being elected to the British House of Commons in 1875, only to be disqualified because he was a convicted felon.

The revitalisation of the felt hat industry came in the 1850s, once again on a whim of fashion but also the increased use of machinery led to reduced production costs.

The polka-mazurek was not credited to the Strauss family alone, as many Viennese composers in the 1850s era also wrote many examples.

In architectural terms, Bishopbriggs is notable for its superior Victorian villas, constructed after local landowners Feued lands to the west of Kirkintilloch Road and Springfield Road from the 1850s, adjacent to the then recently completed Bishopbriggs Station on the Glasgow-to-Edinburgh Railway, its inter-war art deco ' Garden Suburb ' on the former Kenmure Estate, and also for its large scale post-war private housing developments, which has more recently also including housing developments in the neighbouring formerly rural area of Robroyston.

However, by the 1850s running problems with other users of the Park, the public, the military and players of other sports, ultimately caused cricket matches to be moved to the Domain where unfortunately, similar problems were also encountered.

In the 1850s, Francis Fox Tuckett had developed an alcohol stove for campers and mountaineers known as the " Russian furnace ," and also as the " Rob Roy ," after John MacGregor, the canoeist also called " Rob Roy.