1848 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1848?
- January 3, 1848 – Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of the independent African Liberia.
- January 24, 1848 – California Gold Rush: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter’s Mill near Sacramento.
- January 31, 1848 – John C. Fremont is court-martialed for mutiny and disobeying orders.
- March 4, 1848 – Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia
- March 10, 1848 – The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is ratified by the United States Senate, ending the Mexican-American War.
- March 15, 1848 – A revolution breaks out in Hungary. The Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the Reform party.
- March 20, 1848 – Revolutions of 1848 in the German states: King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates.
- May 18, 1848 – Opening of the first German National Assembly (Nationalversammlung) in Frankfurt, Germany.
- May 22, 1848 – Slavery is abolished in Martinique.
- June 2, 1848 – The Slavic congress in Prague begins.
- June 22, 1848 – Beginning of the June Days Uprising in Paris, France.
- July 3, 1848 – Slaves are freed in the Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands) by Peter von Scholten in the culmination of a year-long plot by enslaved Africans.
- July 11, 1848 – Waterloo railway station in London opens.
- July 29, 1848 – Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt – in Tipperary, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put down by police.
- August 19, 1848 – California Gold Rush: the New York Herald breaks the news to the East Coast of the United States of the gold rush in California (although the rush started in January).
- September 12, 1848 – Switzerland becomes a Federal state.
- September 29, 1848 – Battle of Pákozd: stalemate between Hungarian and Croatian forces at Pákozd; the first battle of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.
- October 28, 1848 – The first railroad in Spain – between Barcelona and Mataró – is opened.
- November 1, 1848 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, The Boston Female Medical School (which later merged with the Boston University School of Medicine), opens.
- November 9, 1848 – Robert Blum, a German revolutionary, is executed in Vienna.
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