When Dr Blackwell visited London in 1859, Elizabeth travelled to the capital.

When Charles Darwin proposed his theory of evolution in 1859, one of its major problems was the lack of an underlying mechanism for heredity.

When Gladstone first joined Palmerston's government in 1859, he opposed further electoral reform, but he changed his position during Palmerston's last premiership, and by 1865 he was firmly in favour of enfranchising the working classes in towns.

When the fourth volume of Grätz's history appeared Hirsch impeached the orthodoxy of the new institution ( 1856 ), and his attacks became more systematic when Frankel in 1859 published his Hebrew introduction to the Mishnah.

When the Missouri legislature created Carter County on March 10, 1859, it named the county after Zimri A. Carter.

When Wise presided over the hanging of abolitionist John Brown at Harpers Ferry in 1859, abolition supporters renamed it to Morris County in honor of Thomas Morris, a former United States Senator from Ohio who was an opponent of slavery.

When the state legislature created Mendocino County in 1859, Ukiah was chosen as the county seat.

When a group of local families decided to establish a school in 1859, they settled on a site near present-day Cherokee Lane and Turner Road.

When the institution went bankrupt in 1859 the Dutch government managed the labour camp until 1889, when it was finally closed down.

When a railroad station was established in the town, the railroad ’ s Board of Directors named it in honor of Alburtis in 1859.

When Richard Omohundro's tavern near the depot burned in 1859 it was replaced by the Exchange Hotel, which still stands.

When Bates arrived home in 1859 after a full eleven years, he had sent back over 14, 712 species ( mostly of insects ) of which 8, 000 were new to science.

When the Dorking to Leatherhead railway was constructed in 1859, a fossilised swallow hole was discovered in the cutting at the south end of Box Hill and Westhumble railway station, suggesting that even in its early history, the river possessed swallow holes.

When modern Romania was formed in 1859 through the union of Wallachia and rump Moldavia, and then extended in 1918 through the union of Transylvania, as well as Bukovina and Bessarabia ( parts of Moldavia temporarily acquired by the Habsburgs, 1775 – 1918, respectively the Russian Tsars, 1812 – 1917 ), the administrative division was modernized using the French departments system as model.

When the city was incorporated in 1859, it had an iron foundry, a manufacturer of freight cars, and a large number of mechanic shops.

When all the circumstances are considered it is not surprising that he was recalled in 1859.

When in Tyrol in 1859 he volunteered for service in the war against Italy, but was rejected ; and in his own country he was rejected likewise as physically unfit for the army.

When a delegation of prominent Jews saw the Pope in 1859, he told them, " I couldn't care less what the world thinks.

When he took office in 1926, Steck became Iowa's first Democratic Senator since George W. Jones left office in 1859.

When Robert Stephenson died in October 1859, Joseph Locke was a pallbearer at his funeral.

When Derby returned to office in February 1858 he was again appointed Lord-Lieutenant, and he discharged the duties of this post until June 1859.

When he returned to Romania, at the end of 1861, Titu Maiorescu was eager to contribute to the progress of the recently formed state, after the Union of 1859, of the cultural and political life, of a European level.

When Waverley Municipality was proclaimed in 1859, the name was taken from Waverley House.

When Mantegazza returned from South America, where he had witnessed the use of coca by the natives, he was able to chew a regular amount of coca leaves and then tested on himself in 1859.

When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.

When former President Kolingba attempted a coup d ’ état in 2001 ( which was, according to Patassé, supported by France ), the Movement for the Liberation of Congo ( MLC ) of Jean-Pierre Bemba in DR Congo came to his rescue.

When Danican's poorly trained men attacked, on 13 Vendémiaire, 1795 — October 5, 1795, in the calendar used in France, at the time — Napoleon ordered his cannon to fire grapeshot into the mob, an act that became known as the " whiff of grapeshot ".

When Camille was twelve his father sent him to boarding school in France.

When Pissarro returned to his home in France after the war, he discovered that of the 1, 500 paintings he had done over 20 years, which he was forced to leave behind when he moved to London, only 40 remained.

When David was finally released to the country, France had changed.

When Bernard Stiegler was imprisoned for five years for armed robbery in France, he assembled an " ensemble of disciplines ," which he called ( in reference to Epictetus ) his melete.

When the survivors of this ill-fated expedition returned home, the terrible stories they told of the colony left a lasting impression in France.

When the Azzuri crashed out to France in the 1986 tournament and Scirea retired, the mantle was passed to Baresi who returned to the side, a responsibility that become more poignant when Scirea was killed in a car accident aged 36, only months before Italy was to host the World Cup.

When the French public were asked to select which film they wanted to see most, having been told by the Vichy government that soon no more American films would be allowed in France, the overwhelming majority chose it over all others.

When the World Cup began, Banks was in goal as England got through their group containing Uruguay, Mexico and France, drawing 0 – 0 with the former and clinching 2 – 0 victories over the latter.

When Russia ignored an Anglo-French ultimatum to abandon the Danubian provinces, England and France declared war on Russia on 28 March 1854.

When Henry returned from France, he was given credit for the victory even though he had nothing to do with it.

When the Commune sent gangs into prisons to arbitrarily adjudicate and butcher 1400 victims, and then addressed a circular letter to the other cities of France, inviting them to follow this example, the Assembly could offer only feeble resistance.

When the Legislative Assembly met at the beginning of October 1849, Passy proposed an income tax to help balance the finances in France.

When France was negotiating with the Netherlands about purchasing Luxembourg in 1867, the Prussian Kingdom threatened the French government with war.

When Germany had its hands free for an attack in the west, the Battle of France began in May 1940, and the same Blitzkrieg tactics proved just as devastating there.

When François Mitterrand was elected President of France in 1981, he laid out an ambitious plan for a variety of construction projects.

When Henry III and the King of France came to terms over the Duchy of Normandy, all lands except the Channel Islands recognised the suzerainty of the King of France.

" When the inquisitor-general of France learned that Servetus was hiding in Vienne, according to Calvin under an assumed name, he contacted Cardinal François de Tournon, the secretary of the archbishop of Lyon, to take up the matter.

When in the depths of the French Revolution the Jacobin clubs all over France regularly deployed Rousseau when demanding radical reforms.

When Britain and France went to war in 1793, the U. S. was caught in the middle.

When John was a small boy, his father left for World War I and served in Gallipoli and France.

When France rejected Neurath's note, Germany stormed out of the League of Nations and the World Disarmament Conference, and all but announced its intention to unilaterally violate Part V. Consequently, there were several calls in France that autumn for a preventive war to put an end to the Nazi regime while Germany was still more-or-less disarmed.