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 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.
- March 11, 1848 – 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.
- 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.
- May 13, 1848 – First performance of Finland’s national anthem.
- May 18, 1848 – Opening of the first German National Assembly (Nationalversammlung) in Frankfurt, Germany.
- May 29, 1848 – Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state.
- June 2, 1848 – The Slavic congress in Prague begins.
- 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 18, 1848 – Camila O'Gorman and Ladislao Gutierrez are executed on the orders of Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas.
- August 22, 1848 – The United States annexes New Mexico.
- 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 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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