1849 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1849?
- January 22, 1849 – Second Anglo-Sikh War: The Siege of Multan ends after nine months when the last Sikh defenders of Multan, Punjab, surrender.
- January 23, 1849 – Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Geneva Medical College of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States’ first female doctor.
- January 31, 1849 – Corn Laws are abolished in the United Kingdom (following legislation in 1846).
- February 9, 1849 – New Roman Republic established
- February 28, 1849 – Regular steamboat service from the west to the east coast of the United States begins with the arrival of the SS California in San Francisco Bay, 4 months 22 days after leaving New York Harbor.
- March 22, 1849 – The Austrians defeat the Piedmontese at the Battle of Novara.
- March 29, 1849 – The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab.
- April 13, 1849 – Hungary becomes a republic.
- April 14, 1849 – Hungary declares itself independent of Austria with Lajos Kossuth as its leader.
- April 25, 1849 – The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal’s English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.
- May 3, 1849 – The May Uprising in Dresden begins – the last of the German revolutions of 1848.
- May 10, 1849 – Astor Place Riot: A riot breaks out at the Astor Opera House in Manhattan, New York City over a dispute between actors Edwin Forrest and William Charles Macready, killing at least 25 and injuring over 120.
- May 17, 1849 – A large fire nearly burns St. Louis, Missouri to the ground.
- July 3, 1849 – The French enter Rome in order to restore Pope Pius IX to power. This would prove a major obstacle to Italian unification.
- August 22, 1849 – The first air raid in history. Austria launches pilotless balloons against the city of Venice.
- August 28, 1849 – After a month-long siege, Venice, which had declared itself independent as the Republic of San Marco, surrenders to Austria.
- September 17, 1849 – American abolitionist Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery.
- October 3, 1849 – American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death.
- October 6, 1849 – The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence.
- November 16, 1849 – A Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his sentence is later commuted to hard labor.
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