1848 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1848?
- January 12, 1848 – The Palermo rising takes place in Sicily against the Bourbon kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
- 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.
- February 2, 1848 – California Gold Rush: The first ship with Chinese immigrants arrives in San Francisco, California.
- February 23, 1848 – The French Revolution of 1848, which would lead to the establishment of the French Second Republic, begins.
- March 10, 1848 – The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is ratified by the United States Senate, ending the Mexican-American War.
- March 20, 1848 – Revolutions of 1848 in the German states: King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates.
- March 23, 1848 – The ship John Wickliffe arrives at Port Chalmers carrying the first Scottish settlers for Dunedin, New Zealand. Otago province is founded.
- May 13, 1848 – First performance of Finland’s national anthem.
- May 19, 1848 – Mexican-American War: Mexico ratifies the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo thus ending the war and ceding California, Nevada, Utah and parts of four other modern-day U.S. states to the United States for US$15 million.
- May 29, 1848 – Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state.
- July 19, 1848 – Women’s rights: a two-day Women’s Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, New York; there the “Bloomers” are introduced.
- July 29, 1848 – Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt – in Tipperary, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put down by police.
- August 14, 1848 – Oregon Territory is organized by act of Congress.
- August 18, 1848 – Camila O'Gorman and Ladislao Gutierrez are executed on the orders of Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas.
- September 20, 1848 – The American Association for the Advancement of Science is created.
- October 28, 1848 – The first railroad in Spain – between Barcelona and Mataró – is opened.
- November 3, 1848 – A greatly revised Dutch constitution, drafted by Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, severely limiting the powers of the Dutch monarchy, and strengthening the powers of parliament and ministers, is proclaimed.
- November 9, 1848 – Robert Blum, a German revolutionary, is executed in Vienna.
- December 2, 1848 – Franz Josef I becomes Emperor of Austria.
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