Historical Events In 1847
Saturday, 04 May 2024
Nov 08 Bram Stoker, Irish theater manager/author (Dracula) in the year 1847.
Nov 08 On this day in history the birth of Bram Stoker, Irish author
Nov 10 The passenger ship Stephen Whitney is wrecked in thick fog off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 92 of the 110 on board. The disaster results in the construction the Fastnet Rock lighthouse in the year 1847.
Nov 12 On this day in history sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anaesthetic.
Nov 21 Steamer "Phoenix" is lost on Lake Michigan, kills 200 on this day in history.
Nov 25 On this day in history opera "Marta" is produced (Vienna)
Nov 26 Alfred de Mussets "Un Caprice," premieres in Paris in the year 1847.
Nov 28 Bologna: church San Francisco dei Minori Conventuali initiated with premier of Rossini's Tantum ergo in the year 1847.
Nov 29 On this day in history indians kill Marcus & Narcissa Whitman, 11 settle in Walla Walla Ore
Nov 29 On this day in history indians kill Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, 11 settle in Walla Walla
Nov 30 On this day in history august Friedrich Martin Klughardt, composer
Dec 01 Agathe Grondahl, composer in the year 1847.
Dec 01 Influenza in Worldwide in the year 1847.
Dec 01 On this day in history typhus epidemic of 1847 in Canada killing 20,000+ people
Dec 01 Yellow fever in United States in the year 1847.
Dec 03 In the year 1847 frederick Douglass publishes 1st issue of his newspaper "North Star"
Dec 03 In the year 1847 frederick Douglass publishes first issue of his newspaper " North Star"
Dec 05 Jefferson Davis is elected to the US senate, his first political post in the year 1847.
Dec 07 On this day in history james Deacon White, Canton NY, ball player jumped teams in 1876 (Chi)
Dec 11 Moritz Grave von Strachwitz, German poet, dies at 25 in the year 1847.
Dec 13 In the year 1847 emily Bronte, under the pseudonym 'Ellis Bell', publishes 'Wuthering Heights'
Dec 16 Augusta Mary Anne Holmes, composer in the year 1847.
Dec 29 In the year 1847 william Crotch, composer, dies at 72
Dec 30 John Peter Altgeld, German/US (Gov-Ill)/pardoned Haymarket-anarchists in the year 1847.