Historical Events In 1848

Jul 27   On this day in history vladimir de Pachmann, painter   

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

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

Aug 01   FrantiÅ¡ek Kmoch, Czech composer and conductor in the year 1848.   

Aug 06   Nicola Vaccai, Italian composer, dies at 58 in the year 1848.   

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

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

Aug 12   On this day in history macellus Emants, Dutch writer/poet (Along the Nile)   

Aug 14   Oregon Territory created on this day in history.   

Aug 15   M Waldo Hanchett patents dental chair on this day in history.   

Aug 15   Timothy Olmstead, composer, dies at 88 in the year 1848.   

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

Aug 19   In the year 1848 gustave Caillebotte, French shipbuilding design/painter (Rue de Paris)   

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

Sep 04   Lewis H Latimer, inventor/engineer in the year 1848.   

Sep 05   On this day in history manuel Giro, composer   

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

Sep 10   In the year 1848 william M Harnett, US painter (Old Violin)   

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 on this day in history.   

Sep 14   In the year 1848 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 on this day in history.   

Sep 19   On this day in history hyperion, moon of Saturn, discovered by Bond (US) & Lassell (England)   

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

Sep 24   In the year 1848 pieter Louis Tak, literary (The Chronicle)   

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

Sep 29   In the year 1848 caroline Ardelia Yale, US, educated deaf   

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

Oct 16   1st US homeopathic medical college opens in Pennsylvania on this day in history.   

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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 on this day in history.   

Jan 05   Khristo Botev, hero of Bulgarian revolt against Turkey, poet was born in the year 1848.   

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

Jan 18   Ioan Slavici, Transylvanian writer (d. 1925) was born in the year 1848.   

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

Jan 21   In the year 1848 birth of henri Duparc, French composer   

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

Jan 05   Ferdinando Orlandi, composer, dies at 73 on this day in history.   

Jan 09   In the year 1848 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   On this day in history 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   In the year 1848 heinrich Olivier, German painter, dies   

Mar 20   Abraham des Amorie van der Hoeven, Dutch theologist/poet, dies at 27 on this day in history.