1848

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Decades: 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s - 1840s - 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s

Years: 1843 1844 1845 1846 1847 - 1848 - 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853

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Events

• January 24 - California gold rush: James W. Marshall[?] finds gold at Sutter's Mill near Sacramento
• 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 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.
• November 3 - Greatly revised Dutch constitution proclaimed
• 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

• Wave of communist, socialist, anarchist, and democratic uprisings throughout Europe, mostly unsuccessful
• Gold is discovered at Sutters Mill in Coloma[?], California.
• November - Zachary Taylor defeats Lewis Cass in the U.S. presidential election.
• Women hold Seneca Falls Convention in New York.
• Associated Press is founded.
• Boston Public Library is founded by an act of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts,
• First railway in Spain is opened, with line Barcelona to Mataró (circa 40 km).
• Illinois and Michigan Canal is completed.
• Independent Republic of Yucatan joins Mexico in exchange for Mexican help in surpressing revolt by Maya Indians.
• Serfdom is abolished in Austro-Hungarian Empire.
• John Bird Sumner becomes archbishop of Canterbury.
• British, Dutch, and German governments lay claim to New Guinea.
• Admiral Nevelskoi explores Strait of Tartary.
• Dunedin, New Zealand is founded.
• University of Ottawa is founded.
• University of Mississippi is founded.
• University of Wisconsin, Madison is founded.
• Geneva College in Pennsylvania is founded.
• Holmes County, Florida is created.
• Elizabeth Gaskell publishes Mary Barton anonymously.
• Henrik Ibsen publishes first play Catilina.
• Ivar Aasen publishes Grammar of the Norwegian Dialects[?].
• Robert Schumann composes opera Genoveva.
• Richard Wagner begins writing libretto that will become The Ring of the Nibelung.

Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy

• 1848 in literature:
  • Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

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 19 - Wyatt Earp[?], policeman, gunfighter (+ 1929)
• May 18 - Princess Louise of the United Kingdom[?], fourth daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
• May 23 - Otto Lilienthal[?], engineer (+ 1896)
• June 7 - Paul Gauguin, French artist
• July 6 - Gabor Baross, Hungarian statesman (+ 1892)
• July 25 - George Robert Aberigh-Mackay, Anglo-Indian writer (+ 1881)
• November 13 - Albert I of Monaco
• November 29 - John Ambrose Fleming, English electrical engineer, inventor of Fleming valve[?] (+ 1945)
• Vilfredo Pareto, economist (+ 1923)
• Marie Fyodorovna Romanova, empress of Russia (+ 1928)
• W. S. Stratton, American miner (+ 1902)

Deaths

• January 19 - Isaac D'Israeli, English author, father of Benjamin Disraeli
• February 23 - John Quincy Adams, American president
• March 29 - John Jacob Astor, American businessman
• June 27 - Denis Auguste Affre, archbishop of Paris
• July 16 - Jons 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 Bronte, author
• Edward Baines, British newspaperman, politician
• Gaetano Donizetti, Italian opera composer

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