Page 3: Historical Events In 1847

Apr 10   Charles Swinnerton Heap, composer   

Apr 10   Joseph Pulitzer, American newspaper owner is born   

Apr 13   Cornelis Pijnacker Hordijk, gov-gen (Neth East-Indies).   

Apr 13   Naval Forces begin 5 day battle to capture several towns in Mexico.   

Apr 14   Persia and Osmaanse sign 2nd Treaty of Erzurum.   

Apr 23   Erik Gustaf Geijer, composer, dies at 64   

Apr 28   George B Vashon is recorded as becoming 1st black to enter NY State Bar.   

Apr 30   Charles L J, archduke of Austria/gov-gen (Austria-Netherland), dies.   

May 02   Sabbath famine.   

May 04   New York State creates a Board of Commissioners of Emigration.   

May 04   NY State creates a Board of Commissioners of Emigration   

May 05   American Medical Association organized (Philadelphia)   

May 05   The American Medical Association was organized in Philadelphia, PA.   

May 07   American Medical Association organizes (Phila).   

May 07   Archibald Primrose, Earl of Rosebery (Lib), British PM (1894-95)   

May 08   Robert Thompson patents rubber tire   

May 13   Johannes Haarklou, composer   

May 14   Fanny Cacilia Mendelssohn Hensel, composer, dies at 41.   

May 16   Kaspar Ett, German organist/composer, dies at 59   

May 20   Mary Lamb, writer, dies   

May 25   Alphonse Goovaerts, composer   

May 30   Alice Sophia Stopford Green, Ireland, proponent of Irish independence.   

May 31   Rotterdam-Hague Railway opens.   

Jun 06   Gerben Postma, [Ids], Frisian writer (Swealtsjeblommen).   

Jun 08   Ida Sazton McKinley, 1st lady (1897-1901).   

Jun 09   Pierre-Simon Ballanche, French philosopher/poet (Orphée), dies.   

Jun 10   Chicago Tribune begins publishing.   

Jun 11   Millicent Garrett Fawcett, leader (English women's movement)   

Jun 14   Bunson invents a gas burner. Lab teachers celebrate worldwide.   

Jun 14   Robert von Bunsen invents the Bunsen burner.   

Jun 22   Doughnut created   

Jun 24   Gervais Bernard Gaston Salvayre, composer.   

Jun 27   NY and Boston linked by telegraph wires.   

Jun 28   Sveinbjorn Sveinbjornsson, composer   

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Jan 04   Hendrik Goeman Borgesius, Dutch politician was born in the year 1847.   

Jan 20   W R Pettiford, Founder (Alabama Penny Savings Bank) was born in the year 1847.   

Feb 02   In the year 1847 birth of jules Francois Blasini, Curacaos pianist/composer   

Feb 07   Ernst Franck, German composer/conductor was born in the year 1847.   

Feb 08   In the year 1847 birth of hugh Price Hughes, English social reformer (d. 1902)   

Feb 10   A N Hornby, cricketer (pioneering England Test batsman) was born on this day in history.   

Feb 11   In the year 1847 birth of thomas Alva Edison, Milan Ohio, lit up your life (held 1200 patents)   

Feb 14   Anna Howard Shaw, US, suffragette was born in the year 1847.   

Jan 11   In the year 1847 caroline von Wolzogen [von Lengefeld], German author, dies at 83   

Jan 14   Gov Bent, 5 others in US occupation, killed by revolt in New Mexico died on this day in history.   

Jan 22   Georges-Julien Sieber, composer, dies at 71 on this day in history.   

Feb 15   On this day in history death of germinal Pierre Dandelin, Belgian mathematician (b. 1794)   

Feb 17   William Collins, landscape painter, dies on this day in history.   

Mar 28   Mariano Rodriguiz de Ledesma, composer, dies at 67 on this day in history.   

Mar 29   On this day in history auguste De Polignac, premier France, dies at 66   

Apr 23   Erik Gustaf Geijer, composer, dies at 64 in the year 1847.