1848
1848 is a
leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar).
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Decades: 1810s 1820s 1830s -
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Centuries: 18th century -
19th century -
20th century
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Events
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]]\n* January 24 - California gold rush: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter's Mill, in Coloma, near Sacramento\n* January 26 - Henry David Thoreau addresses the Concord Lyceum with "The Rights and Duties of the Individual in Relation to Government" (which later came to be known as Civil Disobedience).\n* February 2 - Mexican-American War: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed, ending the war.\n* February 2 - California Gold Rush: The first ship with Chinese emigrants seeking fortune in California's gold country arrive in San Francisco.\n* February 21 - Karl Marx publishes The Communist Manifesto.\n* February 24 - Abdication of Le Roi-Citoyen (citizen king) Louis Philippe, King of the French and the proclamation of the Second Republic.\n* March 7 - The Great Mahele (land division) is signed in Hawaii.\n* March 10 - The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is ratified by the United States Senate, ending the Mexican-American War.\n* March 15 - Revolution breaks out in Pest. The Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the Reform party.\n* March 20 - King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates\n* March 29 - An upstream ice jam stops almost all water flow over Niagara Falls for 30 hours\n* May 15 - Radicals invade the France Chamber of deputies\n* May 19 - Mexican-American War: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo - Mexico ratifies the treaty thus ending the war and ceding Texas, California and most of Arizona and New Mexico to the United States for $15 million dollars.\n* May 29 - Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state.\n* July 19 - Women's rights: The two day Women's Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, New York and the "Bloomers" are introduced at the feminist convention. \n* July 29 - Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt - In Tipperary, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put-down by a government police force.\n* August 19 - California Gold Rush: The New York Herald breaks the news to the East Coast of the United States, that there is a gold rush in California (although the rush started in January)\n* August 28 – Mathieu Luis, first black member joins the French parliament as a representative of Guadaloupe\n* November 1 - In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, The Boston Female Medical School (which later merged with Boston University School of Medicine), opens.\n* November 3 - Greatly revised Dutch constitution proclaimed\n* November 7 - U.S. presidential election, 1848: Zachary Taylor is elected president in the first US presidential election held in every state on the same day.\n* December 2 - Ferdinand I, Emperor of Austria, abdicates in favor of his nephew, Franz Josef I.\n* December 10 - Prince Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte elected first president of the French Second Republic.\n* December 20 - President Bonaparte takes his Oath of Office in front of the French National Assembly.
Ongoing events
\n* Mexican-American War (1846-1848)
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Births
\n* January 19 -
John F. Stairs, businessman, statesman (+
1904)\n*
February 5 -
Joris-Karl Huysmans, author (+
1907)\n* February 5 -
Belle Starr, outlaw (+
1889)\n*
February 8 -
Joel Chandler Harris, American journalist, author (+
1908)\n*
February 16 -
Octave Mirbeau French art critic, novelist (+
1917)\n*
February 18 -
Louis Comfort Tiffany,
American glass artist (+
1933)\n*
February 24 -
Andrew Inglis Clark, Tasmanian politician (+
1907)\n*
February 24 -
Grant Allen, author (+
1899)\n*
February 25 - Edward Harriman,
railroad entrepreneur\n*
February 27 -
Hubert Parry, English composer (+
1918)\n*
March 10 - Albert Fraenkel, physician (+
1916)\n*
March 18 -
Princess Louise, fourth daughter of
Queen Victoria and
Prince Albert\n*
March 19 -
Wyatt Earp, policeman, gunfighter (+
1929)\n*
March 31 -
Viscount William Astor, British financier and statesman (+
1919)\n*
May 23 -
Otto Lilienthal, engineer (+
1896)\n*
June 7 -
Paul Gauguin, French artist\n*
July 6 -
Gabor Baross, Hungarian statesman (+
1892).\n*
July 15 -
Vilfredo Pareto, economist (+
1923).\n*
July 22 - Winfield Scott Stratton, American miner (+
1902)\n*
July 25 -
George Robert Aberigh-Mackay, Anglo-Indian writer (+
1881)\n*
July 25 -
Arthur James Balfour,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom(+
1930)\n*
November 13 -
Albert I of Monaco\n*
November 29 -
John Ambrose Fleming, English electrical engineer, inventor of Fleming valve (+
1945)
Deaths
\n* January 19 -
Isaac D'Israeli, English author, father of
Benjamin Disraeli\n*
February 23 -
John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the
United States.\n*
March 29 -
John Jacob Astor, American businessman\n*
June 27 -
Denis Auguste Affre, archbishop of Paris\n*
August 7 -
Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Swedish chemist\n*
August 12 -
George Stephenson,
locomotive pioneer\n*
November 23 - Sir
John Barrow, English statesman\n*
November 24 -
Lord Melbourne, British Prime Minister\n*
December 19 -
Emily Brontë, author\n*
Edward Baines, British newspaperman, politician\n*
Gaetano Donizetti, Italian opera composer
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External links
\n*Encyclopedia of 1848 Revolutions
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