The Pacific Railway Acts of 1862 and 1864 granted federal support for the construction of the United States ' First Transcontinental Railroad, which was completed in 1869.

* 1869 – Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay 10 miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.

The Central Pacific Railroad ( CPRR ) is the former name of the railroad network built between California and Utah, USA that formed part of the " First Transcontinental Railroad " in North America.

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 ).

Eventually, Chinese immigrants introduced keno to the West when they sailed across the Pacific Ocean to help build the First Transcontinental Railroad in the 19th century, where the name was Westernized into boc hop bu and puck-apu.

* May 10 is Golden Spike Day ( 1869 – Completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad – Promontory Summit, Utah )

* 1869 – The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah ( not Promontory Point, Utah ) with the golden spike.

* 1861 – The First Transcontinental Telegraph line across the United States is completed, spelling the end for the 18-month-old Pony Express.

For the First Transcontinental Railroad, the United States government solved this problem by making extensive grants of public land to the railway's builders.

However, unlike the case with the First Transcontinental, the eastern terminus of the proposed Canadian Pacific route was not in rich Nebraskan farmland, but deep within the Canadian Shield.

The bay's regional importance became paramount when the First Transcontinental Railroad reached its western terminus in Alameda on September 6, 1869.

Chinese labourers on railroad gangs involved in building the First Transcontinental Railroad first gave snake oil to Europeans with joint pain.

He contributed to the passage of the 1862 Pacific Railroad Act, which authorized construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad.

* David Haward Bain, Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad ( 2000 )

* John Debo Galloway ; The First Transcontinental Railroad: Central Pacific, Union Pacific ( 1950 )

* The First Transcontinental Railroad in the USA was completed.

January 8 | Jan. 8: First Transcontinental Railroad | Transcontinental R. R.

** Ground is broken in Sacramento, California, on the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States.

* June 4 – The Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, California via the First Transcontinental Railroad, 83 hours and 39 minutes after having left New York City.

** President Abraham Lincoln signs into law the Pacific Railway Acts, authorizing construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad.

* May 10 – The First Transcontinental Railroad in North America is completed at Promontory, Utah, by driving of the " golden spike ".

The First Transcontinental Railroad ( known originally as the " Pacific Railroad " and later as the " Overland Route ") was a railroad line built in the United States of America between 1863 and 1869 by the Central Pacific Railroad of California and the Union Pacific Railroad that connected its statutory Eastern terminus at Council Bluffs, Iowa / Omaha, Nebraska ( via Ogden, Utah, and Sacramento, California ) with the Pacific Ocean at Oakland, California on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay opposite San Francisco.

The linkage made these lines easier to protect and maintain than the original First Transcontinental Telegraph lines, which went over much of the original routes of the Mormon Trail and the Central Nevada Route through central Utah and Nevada.

of their first engagement at Falling Waters after Old Jack's First Brigade had destroyed all the rolling stock of the B & O Railroad.

10 of the 1864 amending Pacific Railroad Act ( 13 Statutes at Large, 356 ) additionally authorized the company to issue its own " First Mortgage Bonds " in total amounts up to ( but not exceeding ) that of the bonds issued by the United States.

First a raft is built first, then eggs are laid in the centre, and then a foam cap is placed.

In the narrower sense environmental activists that align themselves with Earth First or Road Protestors would commonly be labelled activists, whilst a local community fighting to stop their park or green being sold off or built on would fit the broader application, due to their using similar means to similarly conservative ends.

Admiralty House is a moderately proportioned mansion to the south of the Ripley Building, built in the late 18th century as the residence of the First Lord of the Admiralty, serving that purpose until 1964.

Past the bend are The Apthorp and the First Baptist Church in the City of New York ( 1891 ), built for a Baptist congregation in New York since 1762.

First known as Hi-Catoctin, Camp David was originally built as a camp for federal government agents and their families, by the WPA, starting in 1935, opening in 1938.

TCL was a partnership comprising First Group, Bombardier Transportation ( the builders of the system's trams ), Sir Robert McAlpine and Amey Construction Ltd ( who built the system ), and Royal Bank of Scotland and 3i ( who arranged the finances ).

* 1930: First US diesel-power passenger car ( Cummins powered Packard ) built in Columbus, Indiana ( USA )

Britain was required to scrap most of her vast First World War fleet ( only two new, oddly-shaped, battleships, Rodney and Nelson were built at this time, known colloquially as the ' Cherry Tree Class ' as they had been ' cut down by Washington ').

The First Digital Cinema Network enabling digital delivery directly to the theaters was built by Digital Cinema Solutions in 2002.

With a $ 10 million dollar investment, Paramount built their own chain of first-run movie theaters after a secret plan to merge with First National failed.

Wallerscote was built in 1926, its construction delayed by the First World War, and became one of the largest factories devoted to a single product ( soda ash ) in the world.

Tisha B ' Av is a fast day that commemorates two of the saddest events in Jewish history that both occurred on the ninth of Av — the destruction in 586 BCE of the First Temple, originally built by King Solomon, and destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE.

IV, describes Solomon's Temple, also known as the First Temple, at the time the Ark of the Covenant was first moved into the newly built temple:

First Baptist Church in America | The congregation founded by Roger Williams ( theologian ) | Roger Williams in 1638 built this Providence, Rhode Island | Providence historic church in 1776

* First pound lock in Europe reportedly built in Vreeswijk, Netherlands in 1373

* 486 BC: First part of the Grand Canal of China is built

* First ziggurats built in Sumer.

Large areas of Europe had previously been united by empires built on force, such as the Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Frankish Empire, Holy Roman Empire, Ottoman Empire, the First French Empire and Nazi Germany.

First the Ottomans attacked the newly built fort of St. Elmo and after a whole month of fighting the fort was in rubble and the soldiers kept fighting until the Turks ended their lives.

Today known as First United Methodist Church, this congregation built a small log church building in 1820 ; it was London's first church and orphanage.

First primary school was opened in 1820, and first Roman Catholic church of St. Alexander was built in the 1870s.

Lloyd George strongly supported this, writing to Reginald McKenna, First Lord of the Admiralty, " the emphatic pledges given by all of us at the last general election to reduce the gigantic expenditure on armaments built up by the recklessness of our predecessors.