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1849 Historical Event(s)
February 9, 1849
– New Roman Republic established
March 29, 1849
– The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab.
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 15, 1849
– Troops of the Two Sicilies take Palermo and crush the republican government of Sicily
May 17, 1849
– A large fire nearly burns St. Louis, Missouri to the ground.
May 27, 1849
– The Great Hall of Euston station in London is opened.
June 5, 1849
– Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new constitution.
August 22, 1849
– The first air raid in history. Austria launches pilotless balloons against the city of Venice.
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.
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.
Who Were Born On 1849?
January 12, 1849
– Jean Béraud, French painter (d. 1935)
March 7, 1849
– Luther Burbank, American botanist (d. 1926)
May 3, 1849
– Jacob August Riis, American journalist (d. 1914)
June 29, 1849
– Sergei Witte, Prime Minister of Russia (d. 1915)
September 21, 1849
– Maurice Barrymore, Indian-born patriarch of the Barrymore family (d. 1905)
October 7, 1849
– James Whitcomb Riley, American poet (d. 1916)
October 26, 1849
– Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (d. 1917)
November 24, 1849
– Frances Hodgson Burnett, British-born author (d. 1924)
December 6, 1849
– August von Mackensen, German field marshal (d. 1945)
December 18, 1849
– Henrietta Edwards, Canadian women’s rights activist (d. 1931)