Notable Historical Events - 1847
1847 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Michigan is 1st state to abolish capital punishment |
Jan 1 |
Neth's Haarlem's Current newspaper starts publishing |
Jan 4 |
Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government. |
Jan 9 |
1st SF newspaper published (California Star) |
Jan 15 |
1st Swedish magazine in US, Skandinavia, published in NYC |
Jan 16 |
John C. Fremont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory. |
Jan 24 |
1,500 New Mexican Indians & Mexicans defeated by US Col Price |
Jan 30 |
Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco |
Feb 4 |
1st US telegraph co established in Maryland |
Feb 22 |
Battle of Buena Vista: US troops beat Mexican army |
Feb 23 |
Battle of Buena Vista Mexico; Zachary Taylor defeats Mexicans |
Feb 25 |
State University of Iowa is approved |
Feb 28 |
US defeats Mexico in battle of Sacramento |
Mar 1 |
Michigan becomes 1st English-speaking jurisdiction to abolish the death penalty (except for treason against the state) |
Mar 3 |
Post Office Department authorized to issue postage stamps |
Mar 7 |
US General Scott occupies Vera Cruz Mexico |
Mar 10 |
1st money minted in Hawaii |
Mar 17 |
"Macbeth" opera premieres in Florence |
Mar 18 |
1st Dutch public telegram |
Mar 25 |
Pope Pius IX encyclical "On aid for Ireland" |
Mar 29 |
12,000 US troops capture Vera Cruz, Mexico |
Apr 14 |
Persia & Osmaanse sign 2nd Treaty of Erzurum |
Apr 28 |
George B Vashon becomes 1st black to enter NY State Bar |
May 2 |
Sabbath famine |
May 4 |
NY State creates a Board of Commissioners of Emigration |
May 5 |
American Medical Association organized (Philadelphia) |
May 7 |
American Medical Association organizes (Phila) |
May 8 |
Scot Robert Thompson patents rubber tyre |
May 24 |
German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt is awarded the Patron's Medal by the Royal Geographical Society, London in recognition of 'the increased knowledge of the great continent of Australia' gained by his Moreton Bay-Port Essington journey |
May 31 |
Rotterdam-Hague Railway opens |
Jun 10 |
Chicago Tribune begins publishing |
Jun 14 |
Robert von Bunsen invents the Bunsen burner |
Jun 22 |
Doughnut created |
Jun 27 |
New York & Boston linked by telegraph wires |
Jul 1 |
1st US postage stamps go on sale, 5 cent Franklin & 10 cent Washington, NYC |
Jul 2 |
Envelope bearing 1st US 10 cent stamps used (still exists today) |
Jul 10 |
Urbain J J Leverrier & John Couch Adams, codiscoverers of Neptune, meet for 1st time at home of John Herschel |
Jul 20 |
German astronomer Theodor discovers Comet Brorsen-Metcalf |
Jul 24 |
Brigham Young & his Mormon followers arrive at Salt Lake City, UT |
Jul 24 |
Rotary-type printing press patents by Richard March Hoe, NYC |
Jul 26 |
Moses Garrish Farmer builds 1st miniature train for children to ride |
Jul 26 |
The Liberian Declaration of Independence is signed making Liberia a sovereign nation, independent from the American Colonization Society |
Jul 29 |
Cumberland School of Law founded in Lebanon, Tennessee, USA. At the end of 1847 only 15 law schools exist in the United States. |
Aug 24 |
Charlotte Bronte finishes manuscript of "Jane Eyre" |
Sep 8 |
US under Gen Scott defeat Mexicans at Battle of Molino del Rey |
Sep 10 |
1st theater opens in Hawaii |
Sep 11 |
1st singing of Stephen Foster's "Susanna" (in Pittsburgh) |
Sep 12 |
Mexican-American War: the Battle of Chapultepec begins. |
Sep 13 |
American-Mexican war: US Gen Winfield Scott captures Mexico City |
Sep 14 |
US Marines under General Scott enter Mexico City (halls of Montezuma) |
Sep 16 |
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust buys bard's birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon |
Oct 1 |
Maria Mitchell discovers a non-naked-eye comet |
Oct 1 |
German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens AG & Halske. |
Oct 16 |
Charlotte Bronte's book "Jane Eyre" published |
Oct 20 |
Little William Nelman poisons his grandpa |
Nov 10 |
The passenger ship Stephen Whitney is wrecked in thick fog off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 92 of the 110 on board. The disaster results in the construction the Fastnet Rock lighthouse. |
Nov 12 |
Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anaesthetic. |
Nov 21 |
Steamer "Phoenix" is lost on Lake Michigan, kills 200 |
Nov 25 |
Opera "Marta" is produced (Vienna) |
Nov 26 |
Alfred de Mussets "Un Caprice" premieres in Paris |
Nov 28 |
Bologna: church of San Francisco dei Minori Conventuali initiated with premier of Rossini's Tantum ergo |
Nov 29 |
Indians kill Washington state pioneers Marcus & Narcissa Whitman, and 12 others in Walla Walla Ore |
Dec 3 |
Frederick Douglass publishes 1st issue of his newspaper "North Star" |
Dec 5 |
Jefferson Davis is elected to the US senate, his first political post. |
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