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1848 is a leap year
starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar).
Events
- January 24 - California gold rush: James W.
Marshall finds gold at Sutter's
Mill, in Coloma, near Sacramento
- 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).
- February 2 - Mexican-American War: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed, ending the war.
- February 2 - California Gold Rush: The first ship with
Chinese emigrants seeking fortune in California's gold country arrive in San Francisco.
- February 21 - Karl Marx
publishes The Communist Manifesto.
- February 24 - Abdication of Le Roi-Citoyen (citizen king)
Louis Philippe, King of the French and the
proclamation of the Second Republic.
- March 7 - The Great Mahele (land division) is signed in Hawaii.
- March 10 - The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is ratified by the United States Senate, ending the Mexican-American War.
- March 15 - revolution breaks out in Pest. The Habsburg rulers are compelled to
meet the demands of the Reform party.
- March 20 - King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates
- March 29 - An upstream ice jam stops almost
all water flow over Niagara Falls.
- 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.
- May 29 - Wisconsin is admitted as
the 30th U.S. state.
- 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.
- July 29 - Irish
Potato Famine: Tipperary
Revolt - In Tipperary, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put-down by a government police force.
- 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).
- 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.
- November 3 - Greatly revised Dutch constitution proclaimed
- 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.
- December 2 - Ferdinand I, Emperor of Austria, abdicates in favor of
his nephew, Franz Josef I.
- December 10 - Prince Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte elected first president of the French Second Republic.
- December 20 - President Bonaparte takes his Oath of Office in front of
the French National Assembly.
Ongoing events
Year in topic
Births
- January 19 - John F.
Stairs, businessman, statesman (+ 1904)
- February 5 - Joris-Karl Huysmans, author (+ 1907)
- February 5 - Belle Starr, outlaw (+ 1889)
- February 8 - Joel Chandler Harris, American journalist, author (+ 1908)
- February 16 - Octave Mirbeau French art critic, novelist (+ 1917)
- February 18 - Louis Comfort Tiffany, American glass artist (+ 1933)
- February 24 - Andrew Inglis Clark, Tasmanian politician (+ 1907)
- February 24 - Grant
Allen, author (+ 1899)
- February 25 - Edward Harriman, railroad entrepreneur
- February 27 - Hubert
Parry, English composer (+ 1918)
- March 10 - Albert Fraenkel, physician (+ 1916)
- March 18 - Princess Louise, fourth daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
- March 19 - Wyatt Earp,
policeman, gunfighter (+ 1929)
- March 31 - Viscount William Astor, British financier and statesman (+ 1919)
- May 23 - Otto
Lilienthal, engineer (+ 1896)
- June 7 - Paul Gauguin, French
artist
- July 6 - Gabor Baross,
Hungarian statesman (+ 1892).
- July 15 - Vilfredo
Pareto, economist (+ 1923).
- July 22 - Winfield Scott
Stratton, American miner (+ 1902)
- July 25 - George Robert Aberigh-Mackay, Anglo-Indian writer (+ 1881)
- July 25 - Arthur James Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom(+ 1930)
- November 13 - Albert I of Monaco
- November 29 - John Ambrose Fleming, English electrical engineer, inventor of Fleming valve (+ 1945)
Deaths
- January 19 - Isaac D'Israeli, English author, father of Benjamin Disraeli
- February 23 - John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States.
- March 29 - John Jacob
Astor, American businessman
- June 27 - Denis
Auguste Affre, archbishop of Paris
- August 7 - Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Swedish chemist
- August 12 - George Stephenson, locomotive pioneer
- November 23 - Sir John
Barrow, English statesman
- November 24 - Lord
Melbourne, British Prime Minister
- December 19 - Emily
Brontë, author
- Edward Baines, British newspaperman, politician
- Gaetano Donizetti, Italian opera composer
Heads of State
See: Heads of State in 1848
External links
Encyclopedia of 1848
Revolutions
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