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1847 Calendar

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•  January 30, 1847 – Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco.
•  February 19, 1847 – The first group of rescuers reaches the Donner Party.
•  February 22, 1847 – Mexican-American War: The Battle of Buena Vista – 5,000 American troops defeat 15,000 Mexicans.
•  March 9, 1847 – Mexican-American War: The first large-scale amphibious assault in U.S. history is launched in the Siege of Veracruz.
•  March 29, 1847 – Mexican-American War: United States forces led by General Winfield Scott take Veracruz after a siege.
•  May 7, 1847 – The American Medical Association is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
•  July 29, 1847 – 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.
•  September 6, 1847 – Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts.
•  September 12, 1847 – Mexican-American War: the Battle of Chapultepec begins.
•  November 19, 1847 – The second Canadian railway line, the Montreal and Lachine Railway, is opened.

•  February 16, 1847 – Philipp Scharwenka, Polish-German composer (d. 1917)
•  February 27, 1847 – Ellen Terry, English actress (d.1928)
•  March 4, 1847 – Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist (d. 1904)
•  July 4, 1847 – James Anthony Bailey, American circus impresario (d. 1906)
•  August 20, 1847 – Bolesław Prus, Polish writer (d. 1912)
•  September 5, 1847 – Jesse James, American outlaw (d. 1882)
•  October 21, 1847 – Giuseppe Giacosa, Italian writer (d. 1906)
•  October 30, 1847 – Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (d. 1897)
•  November 1, 1847 – Emperor Hiep Hoa, the sixth emperor of the Vietnamese Nguyễn Dynasty (d. 1883)
•  December 18, 1847 – Augusta Holmès, French composer (d. 1903)