Historical Events In 1848

Jul 27   Vladimir de Pachmann, painter on this day in history.  

Jul 29   On this day in history irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt  

Jul 31   On this day in history jean Robert Planquette, France, composer (Bells of Corneville)  

Aug 01   František Kmoch, Czech composer and conductor on this day in history.  

Aug 06   On this day in history nicola Vaccai, Italian composer, dies at 58  

Aug 09   Austria & Sardinia sign cease fire on this day in history.  

Aug 09   Barnburners (anti-slavery) party merges with the Free Soil Party on this day in history.  

Aug 09   Frederick Marryat, English captain/author (Mr Midshipman Easy), dies on this day in history.  

Aug 12   George Stephenson, locomotive engineer, dies in the year 1848.  

Aug 12   Macellus Emants, Dutch writer/poet (Along the Nile) in the year 1848.  

Aug 14   Oregon Territory created in the year 1848.  

Aug 15   On this day in history m Waldo Hanchett patents dental chair  

Aug 15   On this day in history timothy Olmstead, composer, dies at 88  

Aug 18   Camila O'Gorman and Ladislao Gutierrez are executed on the orders of Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas on this day in history.  

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

Aug 22   The United States annexes New Mexico in the year 1848.  

Sep 04   Lewis H Latimer, inventor/engineer on this day in history.  

Sep 05   In the year 1848 manuel Giro, composer  

Sep 06   On this day in history national Black Convention meets (Cleveland)  

Sep 10   On this day in history william M Harnett, US painter (Old Violin)  

Sep 11   On this day in history henri-Philippe Gerard, composer, dies at 87  

Sep 12   Switzerland becomes a Federal state on this day in history.  

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

Sep 14   On this day in history alexander Stewart opens the first US dept store  

Sep 16   Slavery abolished in all French territories on this day in history.  

Sep 18   Baseball rules 1st baseman can tag base for out instead of runner on this day in history.  

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) in the year 1848.  

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

Sep 24   Pieter Louis Tak, literary (The Chronicle) in the year 1848.  

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 in the year 1848.  

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   On this day in history birth of katsura Taro, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1913)  

Jan 05   In the year 1848 birth of khristo Botev, hero of Bulgarian revolt against Turkey, poet  

Jan 09   On this day in history birth of princess Frederica of Hanover (d. 1926)  

Jan 18   On this day in history birth of ioan Slavici, Transylvanian writer (d. 1925)  

Jan 19   John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman (d. 1904) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 21   Henri Duparc, French composer was born in the year 1848.  

Jan 22   On this day in history birth of samuel Muller Fzn, Dutch historian/archivist (Middle Ages)  

Jan 05   Ferdinando Orlandi, composer, dies at 73 in the year 1848.  

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 in the year 1848.  

Feb 15   In the year 1848 death of hermann von Boyen, Prussian field marshal (b. 1771)  

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

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

Mar 03   Heinrich Olivier, German painter, dies on this day in history.  

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