Notable Historical Events - 1848
1848 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Britain takes Mosquito Coast from Nicaragua |
Jan 3 |
Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first President of the independent African Republic of Liberia. |
Jan 8 |
Austrian soldiers kill 10 students, Pavia |
Jan 9 |
1st commercial bank in SF established |
Jan 9 |
People's uprising in Palermo Sicily |
Jan 24 |
James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma, Calif |
Jan 28 |
King of Naples grants his subjects a constitution |
Jan 29 |
Sicily accepts new Constitution (choose parliament/freedom of press) |
Feb 2 |
1st ship load of Chinese arrive in SF |
Feb 2 |
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends Mexican War; US acquires Texas California, New Mexico & Arizona for $15 million |
Feb 12 |
Ballet "Faust" premieres, Milan |
Feb 15 |
Sarah Roberts barred from white school in Boston |
Feb 17 |
Toscane gets liberal Constitution |
Feb 24 |
King Louis-Philippe abdicates, 2nd French republic declared |
Feb 26 |
2nd French Republic proclaimed |
Feb 26 |
Marx & Engels publish "Communist Manifesto" |
Feb 29 |
Neufchatel declares independence of Switzerland |
Mar 4 |
Sardinia-Piemonte gets new Constitution |
Mar 4 |
Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia |
Mar 5 |
Louis Antoine Garnier-Pages is named French minister of Finance. |
Mar 7 |
In Hawaii, Great Mahele (division of lands) signed |
Mar 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. |
Mar 12 |
2nd republic established in France |
Mar 15 |
A revolution breaks out in Hungary. The Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the Reform party. |
Mar 23 |
The ship John Wickliffe arrives at Port Chalmers carrying the first Scottish settlers for Dunedin, New Zealand. Otago province is founded. |
Mar 24 |
State of siege proclaimed in Amsterdam |
Mar 27 |
John Parker Paynard originates medicated adhesive plaster |
Mar 29 |
Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam |
Apr 3 |
Thomas Douglas becomes 1st SF public teacher |
Apr 3 |
German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt is seen for the last time at McPherson's Station, Coogoon, before he disappears on the same expedition to reach the Swan River |
Apr 6 |
Jews of Prussia granted equality |
Apr 8 |
1st battle at Gioto: Sardinia-Piemonte beats Austrians |
Apr 8 |
Battle at Xaquixaguana, Peru: Pedro de la Gasca beats Gonzalo Pizarro |
Apr 11 |
Hungary becomes constitutional monarchy under king Ferdinand of Aust |
Apr 18 |
American victory at the battle of Cerro Gordo opens the way for invasion of Mexico. |
Apr 26 |
Alfred Russel Wallace departs the U.K. for South America, beginning four years of travel, collecting, and research in the region |
Apr 28 |
Free last slaves in French colonies |
May 1 |
The Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta is founded at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. |
May 6 |
Otto Tank ends slavery in Suriname colony |
May 7 |
Prussians stop insurrection in Varsovia |
May 13 |
First performance of Finland's national anthem. |
May 17 |
Gerrit, Count Schimmelpenninck resigns as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Netherlands |
May 18 |
Opening of the first German National Assembly (Nationalversammlung) in Frankfurt, Germany. |
May 19 |
1st department store opens |
May 19 |
Mexico gives Texas to US, ending the war |
May 29 |
Battle at Curtazone: Austrians beat Sardinia-Piemonte |
May 29 |
Wisconsin becomes 30th state |
May 30 |
2nd battle at Gioto: Sardinia-Piemonte beats Austrians |
May 30 |
William G Young patents ice cream freezer |
May 30 |
Mexico ratifies treaty giving US; New Mexico, California & parts of Nevada, Utah, Arizona & Colorado in return for $15 million |
Jun 2 |
The Slavic congress in Prague begins. |
Jun 5 |
Statue of prince William the Silent, Prince of Orange, unveiled |
Jun 10 |
1st telegraph link between NYC & Chicago |
Jun 10 |
Battle at Vicenza: Austrians beat Sardinia-Piemonte |
Jun 22 |
Barnburners (anti-slavery) party nominates Martin Van Buren for Pres |
Jun 22 |
Beginning of the June Days Uprising in Paris. |
Jun 23 |
Bloody insurrection of workers in Paris |
Jun 26 |
1st pure food law enacted in US |
Jun 26 |
End of the June Days Uprising in Paris. |
Jul 3 |
Slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands) |
Jul 6 |
Mexican-American War ended with the Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo |
Jul 11 |
Edmund Hickly gets 1st known 10 wicket innings (Kent v England) |
Jul 11 |
London's Waterloo Station opens |
Jul 19 |
1st US women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls NY, organised by Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Lucretia Mott |
Jul 19 |
German Parliament demands Dutch province of Limburg |
Jul 23 |
Battle of Custoza-Italian War of Independence, starts |
Jul 25 |
1st battle at Custozza: Austrians under Radetzky beat Italian |
Jul 26 |
1st Woman's Rights Convention (Senecca Falls NY) |
Jul 29 |
Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt - in Tipperary, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put down by police. |
Aug 9 |
Austria & Sardinia sign cease fire |
Aug 9 |
US Barnburners (anti-slavery) party merges with Free Soil Party nominating Martin Van Buren for president |
Aug 14 |
Oregon Territory created |
Aug 15 |
M Waldo Hanchett patents dental chair |
Aug 18 |
Camila O'Gorman and Ladislao Gutierrez are executed on the orders of Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas. |
Aug 22 |
The United States annexes New Mexico |
Sep 6 |
National Black Convention meets in Cleveland |
Sep 12 |
Switzerland becomes a Federal state. |
Sep 14 |
Alexander Stewart opens 1st US dept store |
Sep 16 |
Slavery abolished in all French territories |
Sep 18 |
Baseball rules 1st baseman can tag base for out instead of runner |
Sep 19 |
Hyperion, moon of Saturn, discovered by Bond (US) & Lassell (England) |
Sep 20 |
The American Association for the Advancement of Science is created. |
Sep 29 |
Battle of Pákozd: Hungarian forces defeat Croats at Pákozd; the first battle of the War of Independence. |
Oct 16 |
1st US homeopathic medical college opens in Pennsylvania |
Oct 28 |
The first railroad in Spain - between Barcelona and Mataró - is opened. |
Nov 1 |
First US women's medical school opens (Boston) |
Nov 3 |
Johan Thorbeckes revises the Constitution of the Netherlands |
Nov 7 |
General Zachary Taylor elected as 12th President of US |
Nov 9 |
Post office at Clay & Pike opens |
Nov 9 |
Robert Blum, a German revolutionary and MP (Liberal), is executed in Vienna. |
Nov 21 |
Alfred de Musset's "Andre del Sarto" premieres in Paris |
Nov 21 |
Cincinnati Turngemeinde founded |
Nov 23 |
Female Medical Educational Society forms in Boston |
Dec 2 |
Franz Josef I becomes emperor of Austria & King of Hungary |
Dec 5 |
President Polk triggers Gold Rush of 1849 by confirming gold discovery in California |
Dec 25 |
New Haven Railroad opens |
Dec 26 |
1st gold seekers arrive in Panama en route to SF |
Dec 26 |
William & Ellen Craft escape from slavery in Georgia |
Dec 26 |
The Phi Delta Theta fraternity is founded at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. |
Dec 29 |
Gas lights 1st installed at White House (Polk's administration) |
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