1848

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Year 1848 (MDCCCXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

1 Events of 1848
2 Ongoing events
3 Births
4 Deaths

[edit] Events of 1848

February 2: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed, ending the Mexican–American War and ceding all the Republic of Texas's territorial claims to the United States for $15m.

February 21: Karl Marx publishes The Communist Manifesto.

April 10: "Monster Rally" of Chartists held on Kennington Common in London; the first photograph of a crowd depicts it.

May 29: Wisconsin admitted as the 30th U.S. state.

July 26: Matale Rebellion begins in Sri Lanka.

September 12: The Swiss Confederation reconstitutes itself as a federal republic.

November 7: The first US presidential election held in every state on the same day sees Whig Zachary Taylor of Louisiana defeat Democrat Lewis Cass of Michigan.

[edit] January - March

January 3 - Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of the independent African Republic of Liberia.
January 12 - The Palermo rising in Sicily, against the Bourbon kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
January 24 - California Gold Rush: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter's Mill, in Coloma, near Sacramento.
January 24 - The Storming of the Venezuelan National Congress takes place.
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).
January 31 - The Washington Monument is established.
February 2 - Mexican–American War: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed, ending the war and ceding to the United States virtually all of what is today the southwest of that country.
February 8 - Revolution in Rome leads to the foundation of the second Roman Republic, soon to be led by Giuseppe Mazzini, though it would last only four months.
February 21 - Karl Marx publishes The Communist Manifesto.
February 22 - In Paris, revolt erupts against the king Louis Philippe. Two days later he abdicates, leading to the Second Republic.
March 4 - Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will represent the first constitution of the Kingdom of Sardinia and later of unified Italy.
March 7 - The Great Mahele (land division) is signed in Hawaii.
March 10 - The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the Mexican-American War, is ratified by the United States Senate. (cf. February 2, above.)
March 11 - Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government.
March 15 - Revolution breaks out in Hungary. The Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the Reform party.
March 18-19, Marsoroligheterna, in Stockholm, Sweden. Demonstrations outside the Royal Castle, where revolutionaries demands reforms, among them that Sweden becomes a republic. The Swedish king, Oscar I gives the guards order to shoot at the demonstrators.
March 20 - King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates.
March 23 - Province of Otago in New Zealand is founded.
March 29 - An upstream ice jam stops almost all water flow over Niagara Falls for 30 hours.

[edit] April - June

April 10 Chartist 'Monster Rally' held in Kennington Park London, headed by Feargus O'Connor. A petition demanding the franchise is presented to parliament.
April 10 - Bridge collapses in Yarmouth, England, leaving 250 dead.
May 1 - Phi Gamma Delta founded at Washington & Jefferson College.
May 15 - Radicals invade the French Chamber of deputies.
May 18 - Opening of the first German National Assembly (Nationalversammlung) in Frankfurt, Germany.
May 19 - The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the Mexican-American War, is ratified by the Mexican government. (cf. February 2, above.)
May 29 - Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state.

[edit] July - September

July 19 - Women's rights: Seneca Falls Convention - The two day Women's Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, New York and the "Bloomers" are introduced at the feminist convention.
July 26 - Matale Rebellion against British rule in Sri Lanka.
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 17 - Yucatán officially united with Mexico.
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).
August 28 - Mathieu Luis, first black member joins the French parliament as a representative of Guadaloupe.
September 12 - One of the few successes of the Revolutions of 1848, the Swiss Federal Constitution, patterned on the US Constitution, enters into force, creating a federal republic and one of the first modern democratic states in Europe.

[edit] October - December

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: Whig Zachary Taylor of Louisiana defeats Democrat Lewis Cass of Michigan 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.
December 26 - Phi Delta Theta Fraternity was founded.

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The Revolutions of 1848, a series of widespread but mostly failed struggles for more liberal governments, from Brazil to Hungary.
Cholera epidemic in New York kills 5000.
Associated Press founded in New York.
Queen's College for women founded in London.
Boston Public Library is founded by an act of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts.
Shaker song Simple Gifts is written by Joseph Brackett in Alfred, Maine.
First railway in Spain is opened, with line Barcelona to Mataró (circa 40 km).
Illinois and Michigan Canal is completed.
Independent Republic of Yucatán joins Mexico in exchange for Mexican help in suppressing revolt by the indigenous Maya population.
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 by Scots settlers.
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 Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung).
Rhodes College is founded.
The antebellum mansion is built at Beauvoir, post-war home of Jefferson Davis.

[edit] Ongoing events

Mexican-American War (1846-1848)
Irish Potato Famine (1845-1849)

[edit] Births

**1848 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1848 MDCCCXLVIII
Ab urbe condita	2601
Armenian calendar	1297 ԹՎ ՌՄՂԷ
Bahá'í calendar	4 – 5
Buddhist calendar	2392
Chinese calendar	4484/4544-11-25 (丁未年十一月廿五日) — to — 4485/4545-12-6 (戊申年十二月初六日)
Ethiopian calendar	1840 – 1841
Hebrew calendar	5608 – 5609
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1903 – 1904
- Shaka Samvat	1770 – 1771
- Kali Yuga	4949 – 4950
Holocene calendar	11848
Iranian calendar	1226 – 1227
Islamic calendar	1264 – 1265
Japanese calendar	Kōka 5 (弘化5年) — changed to — Kaei 1 (嘉永元年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2508 (皇紀2508年)
- Jōmon Era	11848
Julian calendar	1893
Korean calendar	4181
Thai solar calendar	2391
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