1848 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1848?
- January 12, 1848 – The Palermo rising takes place in Sicily against the Bourbon kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
- January 24, 1848 – California Gold Rush: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter’s Mill near Sacramento.
- February 21, 1848 – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto.
- February 23, 1848 – The French Revolution of 1848, which would lead to the establishment of the French Second Republic, begins.
- February 24, 1848 – King Louis-Philippe of France abdicates the throne.
- March 10, 1848 – The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is ratified by the United States Senate, ending the Mexican-American War.
- March 20, 1848 – Revolutions of 1848 in the German states: King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates.
- March 23, 1848 – The ship John Wickliffe arrives at Port Chalmers carrying the first Scottish settlers for Dunedin, New Zealand. Otago province is founded.
- April 18, 1848 – American victory at the battle of Cerro Gordo opens the way for invasion of Mexico.
- June 22, 1848 – Beginning of the June Days Uprising in Paris, France.
- June 26, 1848 – End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
- July 3, 1848 – Slaves are freed in the Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands) by Peter von Scholten in the culmination of a year-long plot by enslaved Africans.
- July 19, 1848 – Women’s rights: a two-day Women’s Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, New York; there the “Bloomers” are introduced.
- July 29, 1848 – Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt – in Tipperary, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put down by police.
- August 14, 1848 – Oregon Territory is organized by act of Congress.
- August 18, 1848 – Camila O'Gorman and Ladislao Gutierrez are executed on the orders of Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas.
- September 12, 1848 – Switzerland becomes a Federal state.
- September 29, 1848 – Battle of Pákozd: stalemate between Hungarian and Croatian forces at Pákozd; the first battle of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.
- November 3, 1848 – A greatly revised Dutch constitution, drafted by Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, severely limiting the powers of the Dutch monarchy, and strengthening the powers of parliament and ministers, is proclaimed.
- December 5, 1848 – California Gold Rush: In a message before the U.S. Congress, US President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California.
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