1848 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1848?
- January 3, 1848 – Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of the independent African Liberia.
- January 12, 1848 – The Palermo rising takes place in Sicily against the Bourbon kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
- February 2, 1848 – Mexican-American War: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed.
- February 21, 1848 – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto.
- February 24, 1848 – King Louis-Philippe of France abdicates the throne.
- March 15, 1848 – A revolution breaks out in Hungary. The Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the Reform party.
- 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.
- May 18, 1848 – Opening of the first German National Assembly (Nationalversammlung) in Frankfurt, Germany.
- May 22, 1848 – Slavery is abolished in Martinique.
- May 29, 1848 – Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state.
- June 2, 1848 – The Slavic congress in Prague begins.
- June 22, 1848 – Beginning of the June Days Uprising in Paris, France.
- June 26, 1848 – End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
- August 18, 1848 – Camila O'Gorman and Ladislao Gutierrez are executed on the orders of Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas.
- August 19, 1848 – California Gold Rush: the New York Herald breaks the news to the East Coast of the United States of the gold rush in California (although the rush started in January).
- September 20, 1848 – The American Association for the Advancement of Science is created.
- 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.
- November 9, 1848 – Robert Blum, a German revolutionary, is executed in Vienna.
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