1848 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1848?
- January 24, 1848 – California Gold Rush: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter’s Mill near Sacramento.
- 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.
- February 24, 1848 – King Louis-Philippe of France abdicates the throne.
- 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 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 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 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 18, 1848 – Camila O'Gorman and Ladislao Gutierrez are executed on the orders of Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas.
- September 12, 1848 – Switzerland becomes a Federal state.
- September 13, 1848 – Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage survives a 3 ft-plus iron rod being driven through his head; the reported effects on his behavior and personality stimulate thinking about the nature of the brain and its functions.
- 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.
- December 2, 1848 – Franz Josef I becomes Emperor of Austria.
- December 5, 1848 – California Gold Rush: In a message before the U.S. Congress, US President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California.
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