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Abram Robertson Byram

Abram Robertson Bryam married Elizabeth Freeman Elliot in Tynemouth, England in 1848.

Andrew Stone

Andrew Leete Stone (1815–1892), author, Civil War chaplain and pastor

Beatrice Elvery

When Sarah Purser (1848–1943) founded her studio An Túr Gloine (Tower of Glass) in 1903, she invited Beatrice Elvery to be one of the designers and her first commission of six windows was installed in the Convent of Mercy, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh in 1905.

British Sign Language

In 1815, an American Protestant minister, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, travelled to Europe to research teaching of the deaf.

Chatham Vase

It was subsequently moved to Stowe House but sold in 1848, then purchased in 1857 by a member of the family and installed at Revesby Abbey.

Coenobita

:The junior homonym Coenobita Gistl, 1848 is now the moth genus Ectropis.

Comet Olbers

13P/Olbers (a.k.a. 13P/1815 E1, 13P/1887 Q1, 1887 V, 1887f, 13P/1956 A1, 1956 IV, 1956a)

Cotton Tufts

Cotton Tufts (born in Medford, Massachusetts, 30 May 1734; died in Weymouth, Massachusetts, 8 December 1815) was a Massachusetts physician.

Craveri's Murrelet

The bird is named for Federico Craveri (1815–1890), an Italian chemist and meteorologist who was a professor at the National Museum in Mexico City, then later at University of Turin in the city of his birth.

Dido building Carthage

The eruption of Mount Tambora in April 1815 created magnificent sunrises and sunsets which may have inspired Turner's paintings in this period.

François Joseph de Gratet, vicomte Dubouchage

Minister of the Navy September 27, 1815, he conceived the idea of establishing a naval school in Angoulême; he restored the Naval establishment of the Invalides.

Frank Chanfrau

W. Olgivie Ewen leased the larger Chatham Theatre for Chanfrau to manage beginning 28 February 1848.

Franklin Pierce House

Pierce Manse, at 14 Horseshoe Pond Lane, Concord, New Hampshire, Pierce's home from 1842-1848

French Industrial Exposition of 1844

Other European expositions soon followed: Bern and Madrid in 1845; Brussels with an elaborate industrial exposition in 1847; Bordeaux in 1847; St Petersburg in 1848; and Lisbon in 1849.

Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen

He was mayor of several towns: from 1845 he was mayor of Weyerbusch/Westerwald; from 1848 he was mayor of Flammersfeld/Westerwald; and finally he was mayor of Heddesdorf from 1852 until late 1865, when, at the age of 47, his worsening health cut his career short; he had caught typhus in 1863 during an epidemic during which his wife had died.

Gare of Lille-Saint-Sauveur

Ten years after the opening of the first railway station of Lille, Lille-Flandres station in 1848, the city annexed the neighboring towns of Moulins, Wazemmes, Fives, and Esquermes.

George E. Pugh

After serving in the Ohio House of Representatives from 1848 to 1850, he served as State Attorney General from 1852 to 1854.

Hugh Edwin Strickland

For this society Strickland corrected, enlarged and edited the manuscript of Agassiz for the Bibliographia Zoologiae et Geologiae (1848).

Imperial Glory

Imperial Glory is set in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic era, between 1789 and 1815, and allows the player to choose one of the great empires of the age–Great Britain, France, Austria, Russia or Prussia–on their quest of conquering Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

Isaac E. Holmes

Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Holmes attended the common schools, received private tuition, and graduated from Yale College in 1815.

James Otis

James Otis Kaler (1848–1912) (pen name: James Otis), American journalist and author of children’s literature

Jean-François Le Gonidec

They were adopted immediately by Théodore Hersart de la Villemarqué (1815–1895) and Auguste Brizeux (1803–1858), whose works, especially the former's Barzaz Breiz, founded modern Breton literature.

John Ellsworth Weis

At 14 years of age, he enrolled in night classes at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, the faculty of which included Frank Duveneck (1848–1919), James Roy Hopkins (1877–1969), Lewis Henry Meakin (1850–1917), and Herman Henry Wessel (1878–1969).

John Warrington Rogers

Warrington was the eldest son of the John Warrington Rogers, of London, entered as a student to the Middle Temple in June 1848, and was called to the bar in November 1846.

John Westbrook

John Westbrook Hornbeck (1804–1848), Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania

Lambert Blackwell Larking

For many years Larking collaborated with the Revd Thomas Streatfeild (1777–1848), in the collection and compilation of materials for a new history of the county of Kent and, when Streatfeild died in 1848 the materials were left in Larking's hands.

Lorenz Kellner

In 1848 von Eichhorn, the Prussian minister of worship and education, called Lorenz to Marienwerder in West Prussia as member of the government district council and of the school-board.

Ľudovít Štúr

But on 12 May 1848, the Hungarian government issued a warrant on the leaders of the Slovak movement: Štúr, Hurban and Hodža.

Ludwig von Wohlgemuth

During the revolutionary year of 1848, Wohlgemuth distinguished himself during the Five Days of Milan, and covered Radetzkys retreat, and took position at Goito.

María Ruiz de Burton

Soon after the Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo was signed in 1848, Ruiz de Burton, her mother, and her brother moved the Monterey and became American citizens.

Old Western Pomerania

The name Old Western Pomerania was first used when that area of Swedish Pomerania that had been remained with Sweden after the Treaty of Stockholm, later transferred to Prussia under the Congress of Vienna in 1815 and was named New Western Pomerania.

Otis family

Harrison Gray Otis (1765-1848), U.S. Senator from Massachusetts; Third Mayor of Boston; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts; Massachusetts District Attorney; Son of Samuel Allyne Otis.

Pombo

Arsenio Linares y Pombo, Spanish military and government official, 1848—1914

Richard Rogers Bowker

Richard Rogers Bowker (September 4, 1848 – November 12, 1933) was a journalist, editor of Publishers Weekly and Harper's Magazine, and founder of the R.R. Bowker Company.

Robert P. Dick

He was in private practice in Wentworth, North Carolina from 1845 to 1848, and in Greensboro from 1848 to 1853.

Roman Sebastian Zängerle

Roman Sebastian Zängerle (January 20, 1771, Ober-Kirchberg near Ulm – April 17, 1848 at Seckau in Austria) was Prince-Bishop of Seckau.

Rose Philippine Duchesne

In 1815, after the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Duchesne followed Barat's instructions and established a Convent of the Sacred Heart in Paris, where she both opened a school and became the Mistress of novices.

Royal Cork Institution

Its early patrons included businesses and landed people including William Beamish (1760-1828), William Crawford, Cooper Penrose (1736-1815) and James Roche (1770-1853).

Royal Flash

The story features Lola Montez, and Otto von Bismarck as major characters, and fictionalises elements of the Schleswig-Holstein Question, 1843, 1847 and 1848.

Royal Westphalian Railway Company

The Royal Westphalian Railway was initially established only to fill the 32 km-long gap between Hamm and Lippstadt, connecting the Münster–Hamm line of the Munster–Hamm Railway Company (Münster-Hammer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft) opened in 1848 with the line being constructed at the same time by the Cologne-Minden-Thuringian Connection Railway Company (Köln-Minden-Thüringischen-Verbindungs-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, KMTVEG).

Sir Cecil Bishopp, 6th Baronet

His son, Cecil, became the eighth baronet and succeeded to the title of 12th Lord Zouche, of Haryngworth on 27 August 1815, after establishing his claim to this title through the families of Hedges, Tate and Zouche.

Suona la tromba

"Suona la tromba" (The trumpet sounds) or "Inno popolare" (Hymn of the people) was a secular hymn composed by Giuseppe Verdi in 1848 to a text by the Italian poet and patriot Goffredo Mameli.

The Mysteries of Paris

Ned Buntline wrote The Mysteries and Miseries of New York in 1848, but the leading American writer in the genre was George Lippard whose best seller was The Quaker City, or The Monks of Monk Hall: a Romance of Philadelphia Life, Mystery and Crime (1844); he went on to found the paper The Quaker City as a vehicle for more of his mysteries and miseries.

Thomas O'Connor

T. P. O'Connor (1848–1929), Irish nationalist, journalist, and politician

Tobias Winston

Tobias Winston (1815–1893) was an England businessman.

Waterloo Medal

The Military General Service Medal (MGSM) commemorates earlier battles, but was not issued until 1848.

William Jackson of Masham

William Jackson (born 9 January 1815 in Masham, Yorkshire, England; died 15 April 1866 in Bradford, England) was an English organist and composer.

William Lamb

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1779–1848), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Wirtgen

Ferdinand Paul Wirtgen (1848–1924), German pharmacist and botanist; son of Philipp Wilhelm Wirtgen

Xylem Inc.

The corporate history of Goulds Pumps began in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848, when Seabury S. Gould purchased the interests of Edward Mynderse and H.C. Silsby in Downs, Mynderse & Co., a pump making business which had started up in 1840.


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