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Historical Event(s)
– The world’s first “Mercy” Hospital is founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by the Sisters of Mercy, the name will go on to grace over 30 major hospitals throughout the world.
– The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican-American War in California.
– John C. Fremont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory.
– The first group of rescuers reaches the Donner Party.
– The accidental shooting of a Māori by an English sailor results in the opening of the Wanganui Campaign of the New Zealand land wars.
– The last survivors of the Donner Party are out of the wilderness.
– The American Medical Association is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
– Liberia declares independence.
– Cumberland School of Law is founded in Lebanon, Tennessee, United States, one of only 15 law schools to exist in the United States at the end of 1847.
– Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts.
Who Were Born On ?
– Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, American architect (d. 1918)
– Queen Maria Pia of Savoy of Portugal (d. 1911)
– John Lister, English politician (d. 1933)
– Wilhelm Killing, German mathematician (d. 1923)
– Roger Wolcott, 39th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1900)
– Giuseppe Giacosa, Italian writer (d. 1906)
– Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (d. 1897)
– Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician (d. 1907)
– George Grossmith, English actor and writer (d. 1912)
– Émile Faguet, French writer and critic (d. 1916)