No-one is recorded as having discovered gold in the river in Australia in 1850. However, Edward Hargraves discovered gold in Summerhill Creek near Ophir in 1851, and this sparked the Australian goldrush.
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No, the correct usage would be "sparked by" something, indicating the cause or source of the spark. For example, "The argument was sparked by a misunderstanding."
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Seeing an airplane at the Canadian exposition sparked her to fly.
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TJ Hickey was an Aboriginal youth who died as a result of a police pursuit. His death sparked numerous riots in the Sydney region of Redfern, and he has subsequently become a symbol of the tensions between black and white people in Australia.
1851 is the year that Edward Hargraves, in Australia, sparked off the goldrush with his discovery of gold (aided by John Lister) at Ophir, near Bathurst in New South Wales. In the same year, the first gold in Victoria was found in Clunes by James Esmond. At almost the same time, gold was also discovered at Anderson's Creek, near Warrandyte, by Melbourne publican Louis Michel.
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It can be, and it can be a verb form (to spark) or noun. It would mean giving off sparks.
The Gulf War took place in 1991, not 1989, and it was sparked by the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq.