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1848 Calendar

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•  February 2, 1848 – Mexican-American War: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed.
•  March 4, 1848 – Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia
•  March 11, 1848 – Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government.
•  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.
•  July 11, 1848 – Waterloo railway station in London opens.
•  September 20, 1848 – The American Association for the Advancement of Science is created.
•  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.
•  December 5, 1848 – California Gold Rush: In a message before the U.S. Congress, US President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California.

•  January 21, 1848 – Henri Duparc, French composer (d. 1933)
•  February 5, 1848 – Belle Starr, American outlaw (d. 1889)
•  February 17, 1848 – Louisa Lawson, Australian suffragist and writer (d. 1920)
•  February 27, 1848 – Hubert Parry, English composer (d. 1918)
•  March 18, 1848 – Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, daughter of Queen Victoria (d. 1939)
•  April 16, 1848 – Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Indian social reformer (d. 1919)
•  May 23, 1848 – Otto Lilienthal, German aviation pioneer (d. 1896)
•  November 10, 1848 – Sir Surendranath Banerjea, leader, Indian National Congress (d. 1925)