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Special Events for the Year 1848 - back to GREGSITE

Born :02/01/1848Adh‚mar Esmein, French lawyer
Born :06/23/1848Antoine Joseph Sax, inventor (saxophone)
Born :07/25/1848Arthur Earl Balfour, (C), British PM (1902-05) (Balfour Declaration)
Born :03/01/1848Augustus Saint-Gaudens, US, sculptor; designed 1907 $20 gold piece
Born :02/05/1848Belle Starr, outlaw (wild west)
Born :02/24/1848C Grant B Allen, Canadian writer (Woman Who Did)
Born :09/29/1848Caroline Ardelia Yale, US, educated deaf
Born :07/19/1848Cornelis A Pekelharing, artist (fabric seller)
Born :12/15/1848Edwin Howland Blashfield, decorated the dome of Library of Congress
Born :06/07/1848Eugne-Henri-Paul Gauguin, French painter (Tahiti)
Born :11/08/1848Gottlob Frege, Germany, mathematician/logician (Begriffsschrift)
Born :04/09/1848Helena Lange, German feminist
Born :05/23/1848Helmuth J L von Moltke, German general/chief of staff
Born :07/16/1848Henri[cus A] Viotta, conductor/composer (Lexicon of Music)
Born :02/16/1848Hugo de Vries, botanist (How species emerge)
Born :12/09/1848Joel Chandler Harris, US journalist (created Uncle Remus stories)
Born :02/05/1848Joris-Karl Huysmans, France, writer (Against the Grain)
Born :01/05/1848Khristo Botev, hero of Bulgarian revolt against Turkey, poet
Born :09/04/1848Lewis H Latimer, inventor/engineer
Born :02/18/1848Louis Comfort Tiffany, glassmaker; famous for stained glass windows
Born :08/12/1848Macellus Emants, writer/poet (Along the Hippo)
Born :03/18/1848Nathaniel Herreshoff, America Cup yacht designer
Born :06/07/1848Paul Gaugin, [Eugene Henri], French post-impressionist painter
Born :09/24/1848Pieter Louis Tak, literary (The Chronicle)
Born :07/31/1848Robert Planquette, French composer (Lesson cloches the Corneville)
Born :07/27/1848Roland baron E”tv”s, Hungarian physicist
Born :01/22/1848Samuel Muller Fzn, historian/archivist (mediaevistiek)
Born :10/30/1848Sinovi P Rostsjestvenski, Russian admiral
Born :07/15/1848Vilfredo F D Pareto, Italian economist/sociologist
Born :07/27/1848Vladimir de Pachmann, painter
Born :10/17/1848William "Candy" Cummings, created curve ball
Born :07/18/1848William Gilbert Grace, Victorian England's greatest cricketer
Born :09/10/1848William M Harnett, US painter (Old Violin)
Born :12/12/1848William Vanderbilt, yachtsman (donated Vanderbilt Cup)
Born :03/19/1848Wyatt Earp, marshall fought in Gunfight at the OK Corral




Died :07/04/1848Francois Rene de Chateaubriand, French novelist (Atala)/diplomat, dies
Died :08/07/1848Freiherr J”ns J Berzelius, Swedish chemist (atomic weight), dies
Died :08/12/1848George Stephenson, locomotive engineer, dies
Died :03/03/1848Heinrich Olivier, German painter, dies
Died :03/29/1848John Jacob Astor, charted American Fur Company, dies at 84
Died :02/23/1848John Quincy Adams, 6th US pres (1825-1829), dies of a stroke at 80
Died :10/26/1848Vissarion G Belinski, Russian literature critic, dies
Died :05/18/1848William A Leidesdorf, black, dies at 38 in SF




Special :10/16/18481st US homeopathic medical college opens in Pennsylvania
Special :11/01/18481st US woman's medical school opens (Boston)
Special :07/26/18481st Woman's Rights Convention (Senecca Falls NY)
Special :01/09/18481st commercial bank in SF established
Special :12/26/18481st gold seekers arrive in Panama en route to SF
Special :06/26/18481st pure food law enacted in US
Special :02/02/18481st shipload of Chinese arrive in SF
Special :06/10/18481st telegraph link between NYC & Chicago
Special :07/19/18481st women's rights convention (Seneca Falls, NY)
Special :03/12/18482nd republic established in France
Special :04/25/1848A Graham discovers asteroid #9 Metis
Special :09/14/1848Alexander Stewart opens 1st US dept store
Special :01/08/1848Austrian soldiers kill 10 students, Pavia
Special :02/12/1848Ballet "Faust" premiers, Milan
Special :06/22/1848Barnburners (anti-slavery) party nominates Martin Van Buren for Pres
Special :07/23/1848Battle of Custoza-Italian War of Independence, starts
Special :06/23/1848Bloody insurrection of workers in Paris
Special :09/19/1848Bond (US) & Lassell (England) independently discover Hyperion
Special :01/01/1848Britain takes Mosquito Coast from Nicaragua
Special :11/21/1848Cincinatti Turngemeinde founded
Special :11/23/1848Female Medical Educational Society founded in Boston
Special :12/02/1848Franz Josef I becomes emperor of Austria & King of Hungary
Special :04/28/1848Free last slaves in French colonies
Special :12/29/1848Gas lights 1st installed at White House (Polk's administration)
Special :11/07/1848General Zachary Taylor elected as president of US
Special :09/19/1848Hyperion, moon of Saturn, discovered
Special :03/07/1848In Hawaii, Great Mahele (division of lands) signed
Special :02/14/1848James K Polk became 1st pres photographed in office (Matthew Brady)
Special :01/24/1848James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma, Calif
Special :04/06/1848Jews of Prussia granted equality
Special :03/27/1848John Parker Paynard originates medicated adhesive plaster
Special :03/20/1848King Louis I of Bayern abdicates to marry dancer Lola Montez
Special :02/24/1848King Louis-Philippe abdicates, 2nd French republic declared
Special :01/28/1848King of Naples grants his subjects a constitution
Special :02/26/1848Marx & Engels publish "Communist Manifesto"
Special :09/06/1848National Black Convention meets (Cleveland)
Special :02/29/1848Neufchatel declares independence of Switzerland
Special :12/25/1848New Haven Railroad opens
Special :03/29/1848Niagara Falls stops flowing-for 1 day-because of an ice jam
Special :08/14/1848Oregon Territory created
Special :05/23/1848Otto Lilienthal, pioneer aviator
Special :11/09/1848Post office at Clay & Pike opens
Special :12/05/1848Pres Polk triggers Gold Rush of '49, confirms Calif gold discovery
Special :05/07/1848Prussians stop insurrection in Varsovia
Special :02/15/1848Sarah Roberts barred from white school in Boston
Special :09/16/1848Slavery abolished in all French territories
Special :07/03/1848Slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands)
Special :04/03/1848Thomas Douglas becomes 1st SF public teacher
Special :12/26/1848William & Ellen Craft escape from slavery in Georgia
Special :05/30/1848William Young patents ice cream freezer
Special :05/29/1848Wisconsin becomes 30th state

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