1848 Calendar
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1848 Historical Event(s)
February 24, 1848
– King Louis-Philippe of France abdicates the throne.
March 23, 1848
– The ship John Wickliffe arrives at Port Chalmers carrying the first Scottish settlers for Dunedin, New Zealand. Otago province is founded.
May 19, 1848
– Mexican-American War: Mexico ratifies the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo thus ending the war and ceding California, Nevada, Utah and parts of four other modern-day U.S. states to the United States for US$15 million.
June 2, 1848
– The Slavic congress in Prague begins.
June 22, 1848
– Beginning of the June Days Uprising in Paris, France.
July 3, 1848
– Slaves are freed in the Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands) by Peter von Scholten in the culmination of a year-long plot by enslaved Africans.
July 29, 1848
– Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt – in Tipperary, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put down by police.
October 28, 1848
– The first railroad in Spain – between Barcelona and Mataró – is opened.
November 3, 1848
– A greatly revised Dutch constitution, drafted by Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, severely limiting the powers of the Dutch monarchy, and strengthening the powers of parliament and ministers, is proclaimed.
November 9, 1848
– Robert Blum, a German revolutionary, is executed in Vienna.
Who Were Born On 1848?
January 19, 1848
– Matthew Webb, English swimmer/diver (d. 1883)
January 21, 1848
– Henri Duparc, French composer (d. 1933)
January 24, 1848
– Vasily Surikov, Russian painter (d. 1916)
February 5, 1848
– Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author (d. 1907)
February 17, 1848
– Albert Gustaf Dahlman, Swedish executioner, the last to carry out capital punishment in Sweden (d. 1920)
March 18, 1848
– Nathanael Herreshoff, American naval architect (d. 1938)
July 9, 1848
– Robert I, Duke of Parma, Italian nobleman (d. 1907)
July 18, 1848
– W. G. Grace, English cricketer (d. 1915)
July 27, 1848
– Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist (d. 1919)
October 3, 1848
– Henry Lerolle, French painter (d. 1929)