Historical Events In 1848

Jul 27   Vladimir de Pachmann, painter in the year 1848.  

Jul 29   Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt in the year 1848.  

Jul 31   Jean Robert Planquette, France, composer (Bells of Corneville) on this day in history.  

Aug 01   František Kmoch, Czech composer and conductor in the year 1848.  

Aug 06   Nicola Vaccai, Italian composer, dies at 58 on this day in history.  

Aug 09   Austria & Sardinia sign cease fire in the year 1848.  

Aug 09   Barnburners (anti-slavery) party merges with the Free Soil Party in the year 1848.  

Aug 09   Frederick Marryat, English captain/author (Mr Midshipman Easy), dies in the year 1848.  

Aug 12   On this day in history george Stephenson, locomotive engineer, dies  

Aug 12   Macellus Emants, Dutch writer/poet (Along the Nile) on this day in history.  

Aug 14   Oregon Territory created in the year 1848.  

Aug 15   In the year 1848 m Waldo Hanchett patents dental chair  

Aug 15   In the year 1848 timothy Olmstead, composer, dies at 88  

Aug 18   In the year 1848 camila O'Gorman and Ladislao Gutierrez are executed on the orders of Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas.  

Aug 19   Gustave Caillebotte, French shipbuilding design/painter (Rue de Paris) on this day in history.  

Aug 22   In the year 1848 the United States annexes New Mexico  

Sep 04   In the year 1848 lewis H Latimer, inventor/engineer  

Sep 05   On this day in history manuel Giro, composer  

Sep 06   National Black Convention meets (Cleveland) on this day in history.  

Sep 10   William M Harnett, US painter (Old Violin) in the year 1848.  

Sep 11   In the year 1848 henri-Philippe Gerard, composer, dies at 87  

Sep 12   On this day in history switzerland becomes a Federal state.  

Sep 14   Alexander Stewart opens 1st US dept store in the year 1848.  

Sep 14   In the year 1848 alexander Stewart opens the first US dept store  

Sep 16   On this day in history slavery abolished in all French territories  

Sep 18   On this day in history baseball rules 1st baseman can tag base for out instead of runner  

Sep 19   Bond (US) & Lassell (England) independently discover Hyperion, moon of Saturn in the year 1848.  

Sep 19   Hyperion, moon of Saturn, discovered by Bond (US) & Lassell (England) on this day in history.  

Sep 20   The American Association for the Advancement of Science is created in the year 1848.  

Sep 24   Pieter Louis Tak, literary (The Chronicle) on this day in history.  

Sep 29   On this day in history battle of Pákozd: Hungarian forces defeat Croats at Pákozd; the first battle of the War of Independence.  

Sep 29   Caroline Ardelia Yale, US, educated deaf on this day in history.  

Oct 04   Louis Massonneau, composer, dies at 82 on this day in history.  

Oct 16   In the year 1848 1st US homeopathic medical college opens in Pennsylvania  

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Jan 01   John Goff, Irish lawyer (d. 1924) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 04   Katsura Taro, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1913) was born in the year 1848.  

Jan 05   Khristo Botev, hero of Bulgarian revolt against Turkey, poet was born on this day in history.  

Jan 09   Princess Frederica of Hanover (d. 1926) was born in the year 1848.  

Jan 18   Ioan Slavici, Transylvanian writer (d. 1925) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 19   In the year 1848 birth of john F. Stairs, Canadian businessman (d. 1904)  

Jan 21   On this day in history birth of henri Duparc, French composer  

Jan 22   In the year 1848 birth of samuel Muller Fzn, Dutch historian/archivist (Middle Ages)  

Jan 05   In the year 1848 ferdinando Orlandi, composer, dies at 73  

Jan 09   On this day in history death of caroline Herschel, German-born astronomer (b. 1750)  

Jan 20   Christian VIII of Denmark (b. 1786) died on this day in history.  

Feb 15   Hermann von Boyen, Prussian field marshal (b. 1771) died on this day in history.  

Feb 20   In the year 1848 [Willem] Alexander FCNM, prince of Neth/gen-maj, dies at 29  

Feb 23   In the year 1848 john Quincy Adams, 6th US pres (1825-1829), dies of a stroke at 80  

Mar 03   Heinrich Olivier, German painter, dies in the year 1848.  

Mar 20   In the year 1848 abraham des Amorie van der Hoeven, Dutch theologist/poet, dies at 27