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.
- February 2, 1848 – Mexican-American War: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed.
- 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 20, 1848 – Revolutions of 1848 in the German states: King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates.
- May 18, 1848 – Opening of the first German National Assembly (Nationalversammlung) in Frankfurt, Germany.
- 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.
- 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 11, 1848 – Waterloo railway station in London opens.
- 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.
- 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 12, 1848 – Switzerland becomes a Federal state.
- September 13, 1848 – Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage survives a 3 ft-plus iron rod being driven through his head; the reported effects on his behavior and personality stimulate thinking about the nature of the brain and its functions.
- September 20, 1848 – The American Association for the Advancement of Science is created.
- November 1, 1848 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, The Boston Female Medical School (which later merged with the Boston University School of Medicine), opens.
- 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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