1850s

He was the first to put forward a proposal to use stamps in 1850s. He thought it would be much more convenient for people.

In this instance, the main payoff of looking back to the U. S. of the 1850s is simply that it gets us out of two boxes.

He continued to work on the system, but by the 1850s he was a very sick man, and each year he became sicker .

No wonder that by the 1850s it was one of the most urbanised and industrialised countries in the world.

Ever since it opened up to the world in the 1850s, it has in reality engaged with outsiders only when opportunity or necessity required.

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

In the mid-1850s she settled in Battle Creek, Michigan, her base of operations for the rest of her life.

Slavery was "an unqualified evil to the negro, the white man, and the State, " said Abraham Lincoln in the 1850s.

There's been talk of moving the capital of Florida out of Tallahassee since the 1850s!

The original structure is from the 1850s when it served as the workshop for a gunsmith in the Roxbury Crossing neighborhood.

Eventually he ended up in charge of creating Central Park in the 1850s.

a former political party in the US; active in the 1850s to keep power out of the hands of immigrants and Roman Catholics.

Harriet Tubman became famous as a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad during the turbulent 1850s.

From the 1850s through the early 1900s, thousands of immigrants arrived in the United States and lived in New York City.

This is an attractive wooden monastery built on stilts over the lake at the end of the 1850s.

By the 1850s, in fact, California had the richest African Americans were also denied certain rights.

Goldfield was a leading gold mining hub in the 1850s after the California gold rush subsided, according to Rob Feldman, a local historian.

In the 1850s many Chinese people came to Oregon, when gold was discovered in the southern part of the state.

By the 1850s, the steam-engine pioneer James Braithwaite had coined the term "metal fatigue" .

It is, in fact, David Livingstone, reflecting on his experiences in Africa in the 1850s.

With the cessation of transportation, the gold rushes of the 1850s and the influx of free settlers, a view of the 'born colonist' emerged.

In the 1850s, core members of the Whigs joined others in opposition to the Democrats to form the current Republican Party.

Some people saw sewing machines, washing machines and a printing press for the first time at fairs in the 1850s and 1860s.

When Berea College was founded in the 1850s, most Kentucky residents were subsistence farmers.

The 1850s gold rush attracted many Chinese people to Australia in search of a fortune.

But African-American homicide rose from three times the white rate in New York in the 1850s to almost 13 times that figure a century later.

US had replaced the UK as the world's biggest manufacturing nation in 1900s while China remained the number one goods producer in the 1850s.

Levi Strauss began supplying clothing to men on the California goldfields in the 1850s.

Sir Joseph Bazalgette was chief engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works in the 1850s.

Duels were once commonplace, as were fights with fists and firetongs. In the 1850s one senator beat another unconscious.

When Pasteur 's work on fermentation was published in the 1850s, his good name was restored.

JAMAICAN nurse, Mary Seacole, cared for British soldiers during the Crimean war in the 1850s.

British settlers arrived in the 1840s and 1850s, establishing towns and clearing land for farms.

When gold was discovered in Victoria and Queensland in the 1850s, the first major group of Chinese migrants came to our shores.

The global average temperature for 2010 could be the highest since records began in the 1850s, Pope said.

A dentist called Peabody became the first person to add soap to toothpowder in 1824 and chalk was added in the 1850s by John Harris.

Gold was discovered in New Zealand in the 1850s.

We Americans bought Alaska in the 1850s.

Helped runaway slaves in the 1850s.

Baseball became an organized sport in the 1840s and 1850s.

Many people prospected for gold in California in the 1850s.