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'''Years:''' 1844 1845 1846 -
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1848 1849 1850
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'''Decades:''' 1810s 1820s 1830s - '''
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'''Centuries:''' 18th century - '''
19th century''' -
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'''1847''' was a
common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar).
Events
January
*
January 4 -
Samuel Colt sells his first
revolver pistol to the
United States government.
*
January 13 - The
Treaty of Cahuenga ends the
Mexican-American War in
California.
*
January 16 -
John C. Fremont is appointed Governor of the new
California Territory.
*
January 30 -
Yerba Buena,
California is renamed
San Francisco, California San Francisco.
February
*
February 22 -
Mexican-American War: The
Battle of Buena Vista - 5,000
United States American troops under General
Zachary Taylor use their superiority in
artillery to drive off 15,000
Mexico Mexican troops under
Antonio López de Santa Anna defeating the Mexicans the next day.
March
*
March 1 -
Faustin Soulouque declares himself
Emperor of
Haiti
*
March 9 -
Mexican-American War:
United States forces under General
Winfield Scott invade
Mexico near
Veracruz (city) Veracruz.
*
March 29 -
Mexican-American War:
United States forces led by General
Winfield Scott take
Veracruz (city) Veracruz after a
siege.
May
*
May 7 - In
Philadelphia, the
American Medical Association (AMA) is founded.
June
*
June 1 – First
communism communist congress in
London
July
*
July 1 - The
United States issues its first
postage stamps.
*
July 24 - After 17 months of travel,
Brigham Young leads 148
Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of
Salt Lake City.
*
July 26 -
Liberia gains independence.
August
*
August 12 – US troops of general
Winfield Scott begin to advance along the
aqueduct around
Chalco and
Xochimilco lakes in Mexico
*
August 20 – US troops defeat Mexican troops in
Valencia,
Mexico
September
*
September 6 -
Henry David Thoreau leaves
Walden Pond and moves in with
Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in
Concord, Massachusetts.
October
*
October 12 -
Germany German inventor and industrialist
Werner von Siemens founds
Siemens AG & Halske.
*
October 28 -
Donner Party, a caravan of settlers from
Illinois to
California, is stuck near what is now
Donner Lake due to heavy snowstorm. They will be rescued
February 19 1848
Undated
*
Ottoman Empire cedes
Abadan Island to the
Persian Empire.
*
Abd al-Kader is captured and imprisoned by the
France French.
* Founding of the
Architectural Association School of Architecture
*
Emily Bronte publishes
Wuthering Heights under the pen name of Ellis Bell.
* The
North Carolina General Assembly incorporates the railroad town of Goldsborough,
North Carolina named for Major Matthew T. Goldsborough. The
Wayne County, North Carolina Wayne county seat is moved from
Waynesborough, North Carolina Waynesborough to the new town. Goldsborough is later shortened to
Goldsboro, North Carolina Goldsboro.
Ongoing events
*
Mexican-American War (1846-1848)
*
Irish Potato Famine (1845-1849) Irish Potato Famine (1845-1849)
Births
*
Michel-Joseph Maunoury, French General during
WWI (d.
1923)
*
Wong Fei Hung, Chinese healer and revolutionary (d.
1924)
*
February 11 -
Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor (d.
1931)
*
February 15 -
Robert Fuchs, Austrian composer (d.
1927)
*
March 3 -
Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born inventor (d.
1922)
*
March 4 -
Karl Bayer, Austrian chemist (d.
1904)
*
March 27 -
Otto Wallach, German chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1931)
*
April 10 -
Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-born journalist and newspaper publisher (d.
1911)
*
May 7 -
Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery Archibald Primrose,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d.
1929)
*
June 11 -
Millicent Fawcett, British suffragist and feminist (d.
1929)
*
July 25 -
Paul Langerhans, German pathologist and biologist (d.
1888)
*
September 5 -
Jesse James, American outlaw (d.
1882)
*
October 2 -
Paul von Hindenburg,
President of Germany (d.
1934)
*
November 26 -
Dagmar of Denmark, empress of Tsar
Alexander III of Russia (d.
1928)
*
December 7 -
George Grossmith, English actor and comic writer (d.
1912)
*
December 18 -
Augusta Holmès, French composer (d.
1903)
Exact month/day of birth unknown
*
Hale Johnson, American
temperance movement leader (d.
1902)
Deaths
*
January 19 -
Charles Bent, first Governor of New Mexico Territory (assassinated)
*
March 9 -
Mary Anning, British paleontologist (b.
1799)
*
March 11 -
Johnny Appleseed, American pioneer agronomist (b.
1774)
*
April 30 -
Archduke Charles of Austria, Austrian general (b.
1771)
*
May 14 -
Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer and pianist (b.
1805)
*
May 29 -
Emmanuel, marquis de Grouchy, French marshal (b.
1766)
*
September 13 -
Nicolas Oudinot, French marshal (b.
1767)
*
October 3 -
Charles Hatchett, English chemist (b.
1765)
*
October 22 - Negus
Sahle Selassie of
Shewa
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