1848 Calendar
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1848 Historical Event(s)
February 2, 1848
– California Gold Rush: The first ship with Chinese immigrants arrives in San Francisco, California.
March 4, 1848
– Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia
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.
July 29, 1848
– Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt – in Tipperary, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put down by police.
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.
October 28, 1848
– The first railroad in Spain – between Barcelona and Mataró – is opened.
November 9, 1848
– Robert Blum, a German revolutionary, is executed in Vienna.
December 2, 1848
– Franz Josef I becomes Emperor of Austria.
Who Were Born On 1848?
January 1, 1848
– John Goff, Irish lawyer (d. 1924)
January 6, 1848
– Hristo Botev, Bulgarian poet and revolutionary figure (d. 1876)
January 10, 1848
– Reinhold Sadler, 9th Governor of Nevada (d. 1906)
January 19, 1848
– John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman (d. 1904)
February 17, 1848
– Louisa Lawson, Australian suffragist and writer (d. 1920)
March 18, 1848
– Nathanael Herreshoff, American naval architect (d. 1938)
May 23, 1848
– Otto Lilienthal, German aviation pioneer (d. 1896)
July 15, 1848
– Vilfredo Pareto, Italian economist and sociologist (d. 1923)
July 22, 1848
– Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1914)
October 3, 1848
– Henry Lerolle, French painter (d. 1929)