1849 Calendar
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1849 Historical Event(s)
January 22, 1849
– Second Anglo-Sikh War: The Siege of Multan ends after nine months when the last Sikh defenders of Multan, Punjab, surrender.
January 31, 1849
– Corn Laws are abolished in the United Kingdom (following legislation in 1846).
February 9, 1849
– New Roman Republic established
March 29, 1849
– The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab.
April 13, 1849
– Hungary becomes a republic.
May 17, 1849
– A large fire nearly burns St. Louis, Missouri to the ground.
August 22, 1849
– The first air raid in history. Austria launches pilotless balloons against the city of Venice.
October 3, 1849
– American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death.
October 6, 1849
– The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence.
November 16, 1849
– A Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his sentence is later commuted to hard labor.
Who Were Born On 1849?
February 2, 1849
– Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet (d. 1921)
May 22, 1849
– Louis Perrier, Swiss politician (d. 1913)
June 29, 1849
– Sergei Witte, Prime Minister of Russia (d. 1915)
July 2, 1849
– Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Czech-born Queen consort of Bavaria (d. 1919)
July 12, 1849
– Sir William Osler, Canadian physician and author (d. 1919)
July 19, 1849
– Ferdinand Brunetière, French writer and critic (d. 1906)
July 20, 1849
– Robert Anderson Van Wyck, Mayor of New York City (d. 1918)
August 23, 1849
– William Ernest Henley, British poet, critic, and editor (d. 1903)
October 7, 1849
– James Whitcomb Riley, American poet (d. 1916)
December 18, 1849
– Henrietta Edwards, Canadian women’s rights activist (d. 1931)