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1847 Calendar

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•  January 13, 1847 – The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican-American War in California.
•  January 30, 1847 – Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco.
•  February 22, 1847 – Mexican-American War: The Battle of Buena Vista – 5,000 American troops defeat 15,000 Mexicans.
•  April 16, 1847 – The accidental shooting of a Māori by an English sailor results in the opening of the Wanganui Campaign of the New Zealand land wars.
•  July 26, 1847 – Liberia declares independence.
•  September 11, 1847 – Stephen Foster’s well-known song, Oh! Susanna, is first performed at a saloon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
•  September 12, 1847 – Mexican-American War: the Battle of Chapultepec begins.
•  September 13, 1847 – Mexican-American War: Six teenage military cadets known as Niños Héroes die defending Chapultepec Castle in the Battle of Chapultepec. American troops under General Winfield Scott capture Mexico City in the Mexican-American War.
•  November 29, 1847 – Whitman Massacre: Missionaries Dr. Marcus Whitman, his wife Narcissa, and 15 others are killed by Cayuse and Umatilla Indians, causing the Cayuse War.

•  February 8, 1847 – Hugh Price Hughes, English social reformer (d. 1902)
•  February 14, 1847 – Queen Maria Pia of Savoy of Portugal (d. 1911)
•  April 16, 1847 – Hans Auer, Swiss architect (d. 1906)
•  May 1, 1847 – Henry Demarest Lloyd, American journalist (d. 1903)
•  May 7, 1847 – Archibald Primrose, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1929)
•  June 11, 1847 – Millicent Fawcett, British suffragist and feminist (d. 1929)
•  July 4, 1847 – James Anthony Bailey, American circus impresario (d. 1906)
•  September 5, 1847 – Jesse James, American outlaw (d. 1882)
•  December 1, 1847 – Julia Ann Moore, American poet (d. 1920)
•  December 9, 1847 – George Grossmith, English actor and writer (d. 1912)