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1849 Historical Event(s)
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.
April 13, 1849
– Hungary becomes a republic.
April 14, 1849
– Hungary declares itself independent of Austria with Lajos Kossuth as its leader.
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.
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.
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.
Who Were Born On 1849?
January 12, 1849
– Jean Béraud, French painter (d. 1935)
January 22, 1849
– August Strindberg, Swedish writer (d. 1912)
February 6, 1849
– Ida Straus, American passenger aboard the Titanic (d.1912)
March 6, 1849
– Georg Luger, Austrian inventor (d. 1923)
March 19, 1849
– Alfred von Tirpitz, German World War I Admiral (d. 1930)
March 28, 1849
– James Darmesteter, French author and antiquarian (d. 1894)
July 12, 1849
– Sir William Osler, Canadian physician and author (d. 1919)
November 22, 1849
– Christian Rohlfs, German artist (d. 1938)
November 29, 1849
– Sir John Ambrose Fleming, British physicist (d. 1945)
December 18, 1849
– Henrietta Edwards, Canadian women’s rights activist (d. 1931)