Historical Events In 1848

Dec 25 New Haven Railroad opens

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

Jul 03 Slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands)

Jul 19 The first women's rights convention (Seneca Falls, NY)

Jul 26 The first Woman's Rights Convention (Senecca Falls NY)

Jul 04 Francois Rene de Chateaubriand French novelist/politician, dies

Jun 23 Bloody insurrection of workers in Paris

Jun 22 Barnburners (anti-slavery) party nominates Martin Van Buren for Pres

Jun 10 The first telegraph link between NYC &Chicago

Jun 07 The birth of Paul Gauguin, French artist; lived with Van Gogh for some time

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.

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