Whosever fault, it is evident that Brumidi intended to fill out the whole frieze with his `` histories '' and come full circle with the scene of the discovery of California gold.

The defining goals of alchemy are often given as the transmutation of common metals into gold ( known as chrysopoeia ), the creation of a panacea, and the discovery of a universal solvent.

The discovery on the island of a number of gold ornaments belonging to the last period of Mycenaean art suggests that Mycenaean culture held its own in Aegina for some generations after the Dorian conquest of Argos and Lacedaemon.

The greed for gold led to the discovery of the process for its purification, even though the underlying principles were not well understood — it was thought to be a transformation rather than purification.

The history of discovery and use of the elements began with primitive human societies that found native elements like copper and gold, and extracted ( smelted ) iron and a few other metals from their ores.

Following the discovery of gold and silver in 1859 on the nearby Comstock Lode, Carson City's population began to rise.

It continued under the stimulating influence of the discovery of gold in California and Australia in 1848 and 1851, and ended with the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869.

It was here that during 1935, the Regent, Reting Rinpoche, received a clear vision of three Tibetan letters and of a monastery with a jade-green and gold roof, and a house with turquoise roof tiles, which led to the discovery of Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama.

The discovery of gold at Pine Creek in the 1880s further boosted the young colony's development.

Shortly after the Hiscock's gully gold rush of 1851 following the discovery of gold at Hiscock's, 3 kilometres west of Buninyong ( now Magpie approximately 10 kilometres south of Eureka ), the newly created Victorian colonial government announced in August 1851 that it would charge a licence fee to miners on the crown land.

It was increasingly easier to immigrate to America straight from Ireland and with the 1848 discovery of gold in California there was an alluring factor to leave.

Dr. Cade remained humble about his chance discovery, describing himself as merely a gold prospector who happened to find a nugget.

Johann August Sutter ( February 15, 1803 – June 18, 1880 ) was a Swiss pioneer of California known for his association with the California Gold Rush by the discovery of gold by James W. Marshall and the mill making team at Sutter's Mill, and for establishing Sutter's Fort in the area that would eventually become Sacramento, the state's capital.

The city began to expand quickly after the discovery of gold in the Kaczawa River between Legnica and Złotoryja ( Goldberg ).

* 1842 – The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.

The discovery of new gold mines near the city, at Asyla, contributed to the wealth of the kingdom and Philip established a mint there.

The initial discovery was made by Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden in 1909 when they performed the gold foil experiment under the direction of Rutherford, in which they fired a beam of alpha particles ( helium nuclei ) at layers of gold leaf only a few atoms thick.

During the 19th century, the bimetallism that prevailed in most countries was undermined by the discovery of large deposits of silver in the Americas ; fearing a sharp decrease in the value of silver and thus the currency, most states switched to a gold standard by 1900.

The discovery of gold on the Tati River led President Pretorius in April 1868 to issue a proclamation extending his territories on the west and north so as to embrace the goldfield and portion of Bechuanaland.

* The discovery of gold and the Jewish community

The discovery of gold in California in January 1848 set off the California Gold Rush, and the number of settlers going to California skyrocketed.

After this discovery at the mill, the " gold rush " era began and many people came from the east to find fortune.

The discovery of gold in Australia caused the establishment of relatively small Chinatowns in cities there, and similar migrations of Chinese resulted in tiny settlements termed " Chinatowns " being established in New Zealand and South Africa.

The first few chapters of the novel, dealing with the discovery of Erewhon, are in fact based on Butler's own experiences in New Zealand where, as a young man, he worked as a sheep farmer on Mesopotamia Station for about four years ( 1860 – 1864 ) and explored parts of the interior of the South Island of which he wrote about in his A First Year in Canterbury Settlement ( 1863 ).

After discovery of gold on Lynx Creek in the spring of 1863, the Dewey area was settled around the summer 1863 by pioneer prospector, rancher and Indian-fighter King Woolsey ( 1832 – 1879 ), who founded the Agua Fria Ranch, then better known as " Woolsey Valley ," to supply the miners.

Weaver, Arizona features Rich Hill, the richest placer gold discovery in Arizona, discovered in 1863 by a party led by mountain man Pauline Weaver and prospector A. H. Peeples.

Alder takes its name from Alder Creek ( named by Henry Edgar in 1863 ), the site of the second major gold discovery in Montana.

Historically, the discovery of the species as Lophochroa goffini is attributed to Otto Finsch in 1863.

Due to the discovery of gold in Idaho and Oregon in the 1860s, similar conflicts arose that culminated in the Bear River Massacre in 1863 and Snake War from 1864 to 1868.

These seizures are named after their discoverer, John Hughlings Jackson, an English neurologist, whose studies led to the discovery of the seizures ' initiation point ( in the primary motor cortex ) in 1863.

The discovery of gold in 1863 around Bannack, Montana encouraged white settlers to find an economical route to the gold fields.

In 1863 his discovery of a human jaw, together with worked flints, in a gravel-pit at Moulin-Quignon near Abbeville seemed to vindicate Boucher de Perthes entirely ; but doubt was thrown on the antiquity of the human remains ( owing to the possibility of interment ), though not on the good faith of the discoverer, who was the same year made an officer of the Légion d ' honneur.

Brasseur de Bourbourg realised that this could prove to be the key to unlocking the secrets of the Maya script, and he announced this discovery when republishing the manuscript ( in a bilingual Spanish-French edition ) in late 1863 under the title, Relation des choses de Yucatán de Diego de Landa.

In the first stages of Ktunaxa – European contact, mainly the result of a gold rush that began in earnest in 1863 with the discovery of gold in Wild Horse Creek, the Ktunaxa were little interested in European-driven economic activities.

He had studied in 1863 the spontaneous change which guncotton undergoes with formation of gelatinous acids, and published two papers in 1871 on nitrites where he announces his discovery of hyponitrites.

The town was gazetted in 1850 with subdivision for sale in 1852 making it the oldest town in Crookwell Shire and the rich Pastoral leases and discovery of gold at Tuena, 33 kilometres to the north caused the town to grow quickly, with a School ( 1851 ), post office ( 1852 ), Court of Petty Sessions ( 1863 ), and Anglican church ( 1872 ) following soon.

Although he was presented with a monetary reward of £ 100 for his discovery, Stringer was unable to capitalise on his finds, dying in September 1863.

Moulin Quignon, a quarry near Abbeville, France, celebrated for the discovery in 1863 by Boucher de Perthes of a human jawbone believed to be referable to the Quaternary period.

Lewis's news of Mendoza's appearance in 1996, coupled with the discovery that her disappearance in 1863 had been connected with the identical twin of the man who ruined her in Elizabethan England, begins his estrangement from the organization he has served since prehistory.

With discovery of new lands to the west ( which they thought at the time to be East Asia ), the poor young men were attracted to whispers of glory and wealth.

The 1970s brought the discovery of cellular layers inversion in the mice neocortex, which attracted more attention to the reeler mutation.

The discovery of gold made the Transvaal overnight the richest and potentially the most powerful nation in southern Africa, but it attracted so many Uitlanders ( in 1896 approximately 60, 000 ) that they quickly outnumbered the Boers ( approximately 30, 000 white male Boers ).

The discovery of coal in the area attracted more settlers.

It was incorporated in 1948 shortly after the discovery of an underground water supply by oil prospectors, which attracted farmers to the area.

The discovery triggered a " diamond rush " that attracted people from all over the world turning Kimberley into a town of 50, 000 within five years and drawing the attention of British imperial interests.

The first step to resolving how to measure blood flow to the brain was Linus Pauling's and Charles Coryell's discovery in 1936 that oxygen-rich blood with Hb was weakly repelled by magnetic fields, while oxygen-depleted blood with dHb was attracted to a magnetic field, though less so than paramagnetic elements such as iron.

Borobudur attracted attention in 1885, when Yzerman, the Chairman of the Archaeological Society in Yogyakarta, made a discovery about the hidden foot.

The discovery triggered a " diamond rush " that attracted people from all over the world, turning Kimberley into a town of 50, 000 within five years and drawing the attention of British imperial interests.

While Fiordland as such remained one of the least-explored areas of New Zealand up to the 20th century, Milford Sound's natural beauty soon attracted national and international renown, and led to the discovery of the Mackinnon Pass in 1888, soon to become a part of the new Milford Track, an early walking tourism trail.

Since its discovery by Europeans, the site has attracted visitors for two centuries.

The " discovery " attracted much attention over the following year until Robert W. Wood showed that the phenomena were purely subjective with no physical origin.

The discovery of gold in 1874 in the Black Hills, however, attracted thousands of miners who invaded the sacred grounds, and conflicts broke out with the Sioux.

His discovery of " Faye's comet " attracted worldwide attention, and won him the 1844 Lalande Prize prize and a membership in the Academy of Sciences.

It attracted the attention of many intellectuals, including Ingmar Bergman who said: " My discovery of Tarkovsky's first film was like a miracle.

Analytical problems, such as the isolation of certain organic radicals, attracted his attention at first, but he soon turned to chemical syntheses, and he was only about twenty-five years of age when an investigation, doubtless suggested by the work of his master, Robert Bunsen and Hermann Kolbe, on cacodyl, yielded the interesting discovery of organometallic compounds.

The United States has attracted foreign litigants wishing to take advantage of the more generous awards of damages and alimony, extensive discovery rules, and the contingent fee system.

The announcement of Maiasaura's discovery attracted renewed scientific interest to the Two Medicine Formation and many other new kinds of dinosaurs were discovered as a result of the increased attention.

The town later grew with the discovery of oil in the area in 1917, and attracted a large number of immigrants from Grenada and other Lesser Antillean islands.

Their discovery attracted considerable attention at the time, as the pteridosperms were the first extinct group of vascular plants to be identified solely from the fossil record.

The discovery of the Nebra skydisk attracted public attention to this prehistoric civilisation and its elevated culture and provoked interest in the settlements in the region of Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia.