Page 5: Historical Events In 1848

Aug 09   Austria and Sardinia sign cease fire   

Aug 09   Barnburners (anti-slavery) party merges with the Free Soil Party   

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

Aug 12   George Stephenson, locomotive engineer, dies   

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

Aug 14   Oregon Territory created   

Aug 15   M Waldo Hanchett patents dental chair.   

Aug 15   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.   

Aug 19   Gustave Caillebotte, French shipbuilding design/painter (Rue de Paris)   

Aug 22   The United States annexes New Mexico.   

Sep 04   Lewis H Latimer, inventor/engineer.   

Sep 05   Manuel Giro, composer   

Sep 06   National Black Convention meets (Cleveland).   

Sep 10   William M Harnett, US painter (Old Violin)   

Sep 11   Henri-Philippe Gerard, composer, dies at 87.   

Sep 12   Switzerland is recorded as becoming a Federal state.   

Sep 14   Alexander Stewart opens 1st US dept store.   

Sep 14   Alexander Stewart opens the inaugural US dept store.   

Sep 16   Slavery abolished in all French territories   

Sep 18   Baseball rules 1st baseman can tag base for out instead of runner   

Sep 19   Bond (US) and Lassell (England) independently discover Hyperion, moon of Saturn   

Sep 19   Hyperion, moon of Saturn, discovered by Bond (US) and Lassell (England)   

Sep 20   The American Association for the Advancement of Science is created   

Sep 24   Pieter Louis Tak, literary (The Chronicle).   

Sep 29   Battle of Pákozd: Hungarian forces defeat Croats at Pákozd; the inaugural battle of the War of Independence   

Sep 29   Caroline Ardelia Yale, US, educated deaf   

Oct 04   Louis Massonneau, composer, dies at 82.   

Oct 16   1st US homeopathic medical college opens in Pennsylvania.   

Oct 17   William "Candy" Cummings, created curve ball   

Oct 26   Vissarion G Belinski, Russian literature critic, dies   

Oct 27   Alexander Egorovich Varlamov, composer, dies at 46   

Oct 28   The inaugural railroad in Spain   

Oct 30   Zinovi P Rozhestvensky, Russian vice-admiral.   

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Jan 01   John goff: Irish lawyer   

Jan 04   Katsura taro: Prime minister of japan   

Jan 05   Khristo botev: Hero of bulgarian revolt against turkey, poet   

Jan 09   Princess frederica of hanover: Princess frederica of hanover (d. 1926)   

Jan 18   Ioan slavici: Transylvanian writer    

Jan 19   John f. stairs: Canadian businessman    

Jan 21   Henri duparc: French composer   

Jan 22   Samuel muller fzn: Dutch historian/archivist (middle ages)   

Jan 05   Ferdinando orlandi: Composer,    

Jan 09   Caroline herschel: German-born astronomer (b. 1750)   

Jan 20   Christian viii of denmark: Christian viii of denmark (b. 1786)   

Feb 15   Hermann von boyen: Prussian field marshal (b. 1771)   

Feb 20   [willem] alexander fcnm: Prince of neth/gen-maj,    

Feb 23   John quincy adams: 6th us pres (1825-1829),   

Mar 03   Heinrich olivier: German painter,    

Mar 20   Abraham des amorie van der hoeven: Dutch theologist/poet,