May 30 Second battle at Gioto: Sardinia-Piemonte beats Austrians

May 17 Premier Earl Schimmelpenninck resigns

May 19 México gives Texas to US, ending the war

May 30 México ratifies treaty giving US; New Mexico, California & parts of Nevada, Utah, Arizona & Colorado in return for $15 million

May 29 Battle at Curtazone: Austrians beat Sardinia-Piemonte

May 29 Wisconsin becomes 30th state

May 30 William G Young patents ice cream freezer cool idea

May 07 Prussians stop insurrection in Varsovia

May 29 Battle at Curtazone Austrians beat Sardinia-Piemonte

May 23 Otto Lilienthal, pioneer aviator is born

May 06 Otto Tank ends slavery in Suriname colony

May 29 Wisconsin becomes the 30th state to join the US

May 30 Second battle at Gioto Sardinia-Piemonte beats Austrians

May 23 The birth of Otto Lilienthal, German glider builder

Jan 24 Gold is first discovered in California,starting the gold rush

Jan 01 Britain takes Mosquito Coast from Nicaragua

Jan 24 James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma CA

Jan 29 Sicily accepts new Constitution (choose parliament/freedom of press)

Jan 09 The first commercial bank in San Francisco established

Jan 01 Britain takes Mosquito Coast from Nicaragua

Jan 08 Austrian soldiers kill 10 students, Pavia

Jan 24 Gold is discovered in California by James Marshall at Sutters Mill triggering the San Francisco gold rush of '49.

Jan 09 People's uprising in Palermo Sicily

Jan 28 King of Naples grants his subjects a constitution

Jan 25 Last convict ship to Port Phillip in Victoria, the Marion, disembarks passengers.

Feb 26 Marx & Engels publish "The Communist Manifesto"

Feb 29 Neufchatel declares independence of Switzerland

Feb 14 James K Polk became first President photographed in office (Matthew Brady)

Feb 24 King Louis-Philippe abdicates, 2nd French republic declared

Feb 15 Sarah Roberts barred from white school in Boston

Feb 02 The first shipload of Chinese arrive in San Francisco

Feb 26 2nd French Republic forms

Feb 23 John Quincy Adams, 6th president of the US, dies of a stroke at age 80.

Feb 02 The Mexican War formally ends, with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

Apr 03 Thomas Douglas becomes 1st San Francisco public teacher

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