Events in year of 1846
- 01-28Battle of Allwal, Brits beat Sikhs in Punjab (India)
- 02-04Mormons leave Nauvoo, Mo for settlement in west
- 02-05"Oregon Spectator" is 1st newspaper to be published on the West Coast
- 02-10Beginning of Mormon march to west US
- 02-10British defeat Sikhs in battle of Sobraon, India
- 02-16Battle of Sobraon ends 1st Sikh War in India
- 02-19Texas state government formally installed in Austin
- 02-20British occupy Sikh citadel of Lahore
- 02-211st US woman telegrapher, Sarah G Bagley, Lowell, Massachusetts
- 02-23Polish revolutionaries march on Cracow, but are defeated
- 05-01Ida Pfeiffer (48) begins trip around world
- 05-03Mexican army surrounds fort in Texas
- 05-04US state Michigan ends death penalty
- 05-09Battle of Resaca de la Palma-US sends Mexico back to Rio Grande
- 05-17Saxophone is patents by Antoine Joseph Sax
- 05-18US troops attack Rio Grande occupying Matamoros
- 05-211st steamship arrives in Hawaii
- 06-05Telegraph line opens between Philadelphia and Baltimore
- 06-08Battle at Gwanga: British troops beat Bantu
- 06-10Robert Thomson obtains an English patent on a rubber tire
- 06-14Belgian Liberal Party forms
- 06-14California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma
- 06-14California declares independence from Mexico
- 06-191st baseball game (Cartwright Rules) - NY Nines 23, Knickerbockers 1
- 06-24Residency tax on Jews of Hungary abolished
- 07-09Captain Montgomery claims Yerba Buena (San Francisco) for US
- 07-21Mormons found 1st English settlement in California (San Joaquin Valley)
- 08-05Oregon country divided between US and Britain at 49th parallel
- 08-14Henry David Thoreau jailed for tax resistance
- 08-17US fleet officer Robert F Stockton annexes California
People born in year of 1846
- 01-01Nikola Pasic: Serbian nationalist / Premier (1891..1926)
- 01-02Sandor Erkel: Composer
- 01-05Rudolf Christoph Eucken: Germany -- Idealist philosopher (Nobel 1908)
- 01-08Albert Cahen: Composer
- 01-08William Wallace Gilchrist: Composer
- 01-30Francis H Bradley: British philosopher (neo-idealism)
- 02-09Wilhelm Maybach: German engineer, designer of 1st Mercedes
- 02-10Mildred Childe "Life" Lee: Daughter of confederate General Robert E Lee
- 02-11William Fox Talbot: Pioneer photographer / inventor
- 02-24Luigi Denza: Composer
- 02-27Joaquin Valverde: Composer
- 03-17Kate Greenaway: England, United Kingdom -- Artist / book illustrator (Under the Window)
- 03-20Auguste Bender: Writer
- 03-22Randolph Caldecott: England, United Kingdom -- Illustrator (Caldecott Medal namesake)
- 04-28Johann E Backlund: Swedish astronomer (planets / asteroids)
- 04-30Rosalie Amstein: Writer
- 05-02Zygmunt Noskowski: Composer
- 05-05Federico Chueca: Composer
- 05-05Henryk Sienkiewicz: Poland -- Author (Quo Vadis, Nobel 1905)
- 05-08Oscar Hammerstein: Germany -- Opera / playwright (Kohinoor)
- 05-14Arnold Kerdijk: Dutch lib politician / founder (Social Weekly newspaper)
- 05-14Pieter W A Cort van de Linden: Dutch Premier (1913-18)
- 05-17Edmund Bishop: English Secretary of Thomas Carlyle
- 05-26Arthur Coquard: Composer
- 06-04Josef Sittard: Music writer
- 06-07Wladyslaw Gorski: Composer
- 06-23George Sax: Inventor (saxophone)
- 06-27Charles S Parnell: English / Irish Home Rule Party-Lower house member
- 06-30Ricardo Drigo: Composer
- 07-03Achilles Alferaki: Composer
People died in year of 1846
- 02-03Joseph Weigl: Austria Composer / conductor (Waisenhaus), dies at 79
- 02-09Henry Gally Knight: Architect / writer
- 02-14Cornelis F van Maanen: Dutch Supreme Court Justice, dies at 76
- 02-18Giovanni Liverati: Composer, dies at 73
- 02-22Carolus Antonius Fodor: Composer, dies at 77
- 03-17F W Bessel: Measured distance to 61 Cygni
- 03-17Friedrich W Bessel: German astronomer (Bessel Functions), dies at 61
- 04-16Domenico Dragonetti: Composer, dies at 83
- 05-08Giacomo Cordella: Composer, dies at 59
- 06-01Gregory XVI [Bartolomeo A Cappellari] / Mauro: Pope dies at 80
- 06-20Pieter Adams: Architect of Rotterdam, dies at about 67
- 06-28Adrian van de Ende: Vicar / protestant reformer, dies at 77
- 07-24Joseph Leopold Eybler: Austrian Composer / choir master, dies at 81
- 07-24Louis Napoleon: French King of the Netherlands (1806-10), dies at 67
- 08-01Peter Ritter: Composer, dies at 83
- 08-07Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck: Composer, dies at 76
- 08-25Giuseppe Acerbi: Italian nature investigator / diplomat, dies at 73
- 08-27Frantiszek Scigalski: Composer, dies at 64
- 08-27Gottfied Wilhelm Fink: Composer, dies at 63
- 09-17Francesco Giuseppi Pollini: Composer, dies at 84
- 10-29Jean Louis van Aelbroeck: Flemish agronoom, dies at 90
Events in year of 1847
- 01-01Michigan is 1st state to abolish capital punishment
- 01-03California town of Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco
- 01-091st SF newspaper published (California Star)
- 01-14Conspiracy in New Mexico against US
- 01-151st Swedish magazine in US, Skandinavia, published in New York City
- 01-241,500 New Mexican Indians and Mexicans defeated by US Col Price
- 01-30Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco
- 02-041st US telegraph co established in Maryland
- 02-22Battle of Buena Vista: US troops beat Mexican army
- 02-25State University of Iowa is approved
- 03-01Michigan becomes 1st English-speaking jurisdiction to abolish the death penalty (except for treason against the state)
- 03-03Post Office Department authorized to issue postage stamps
- 03-07US General Scott occupies Vera Cruz Mexico
- 03-101st money minted in Hawaii
- 03-17"Macbeth" opera premieres in Florence
- 03-181st Dutch public telegram
- 03-25Pope Pius IX encyclical "On aid for Ireland"
- 04-05Opera "Die Fledermaus" is produced (Vienna)
- 04-14Persia and Osmaanse sign 2nd Treaty of Erzurum
- 04-28George B Vashon becomes 1st black to enter New York State Bar
- 05-02Sabbath famine
- 05-04New York State creates a Board of Commissioners of Emigration
- 05-05American Medical Association organized (Philadelphia)
- 05-07American Medical Association organizes (Philadelphia)
- 05-08Robert Thompson patents rubber tire
- 06-10Chicago Tribune begins publishing
- 06-14Robert von Bunsen invents the Bunsen burner
- 06-22Doughnut created
- 06-27New York and Boston linked by telegraph wires
- 07-02Envelope bearing 1st US 10 cent stamps, still exists today
People born in year of 1847
- 01-04Hendrik Goeman Borgesius: Dutch politician
- 01-20W R Pettiford: Founder (Alabama Penny Savings Bank)
- 02-02Jules Francois Blasini: Curacaos pianist / composer
- 02-07Ernst Franck: German composer / conductor
- 02-14Anna Howard Shaw: United States -- Suffragette
- 02-16Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka: German composer (Album polonaise)
- 02-25John Watson: Canada -- Philosopher (Objective Idealism)
- 02-27Ellen Alice Terry: Coventry, England -- Actress / director (Imperial Theatre)
- 03-08Karl von Bach: German engineer (Maschinenelemente)
- 03-14Antonio de Castro Alves: Brazilian poet (Espumas Flutuantes)
- 03-19Constantin Dimitrescu: Composer
- 03-23Alexandru D Xenopol: Romania -- Historian
- 03-27Otto Wallach: Germany -- Chemist (Nobel 1910)
- 03-31Jarolslaw Zielinski: Composer
- 04-01Gavriil Musicescu: Composer
- 04-01Jules-Nicolas Crevaux: French explorer (South America)
- 04-07J P Jacobsen: Writer
- 04-09Francesco Paolo Tosti: Composer
- 04-09Francis William Davenport: Composer
- 04-10Charles Swinnerton Heap: Composer
- 04-10Joseph Pulitzer: Hungary -- Publisher (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, New York World)
- 04-13Cornelis Pijnacker Hordijk: Governor-General (Netherlands East Indies)
- 05-07Archibald Primrose: Earl of Rosebery (Lib), British Prime Minister (1894-95)
- 05-13Johannes Haarklou: Composer
- 05-25Alphonse Goovaerts: Composer
- 05-25John Alexander Dowie [Elijah the Restorer]: United States -- Evangelist
- 05-30Alice Sophia Stopford Green: Ireland -- Proponent of Irish independence
- 06-06Gerben Postma [Ids]: Frisian writer (Swealtsjeblommen)
- 06-08Ida Sazton McKinley: 1st lady (1897-1901)
- 06-24Gervais Bernard Gaston Salvayre: Composer
People died in year of 1847
- 01-11Caroline von Wolzogen [von Lengefeld]: German author, dies at 83
- 01-14Gov Bent: 5 others in US occupation, killed by revolt in New Mexico
- 01-22Georges-Julien Sieber: Composer, dies at 71
- 03-28Mariano Rodriguiz de Ledesma: Composer, dies at 67
- 03-29Auguste De Polignac: Premier France, dies at 66
- 04-23Erik Gustaf Geijer: Composer, dies at 64
- 04-30Charles L J: Archduke of Austria / Governor-General (Austria-Netherland)
- 05-14Fanny Cacilia Mendelssohn Hensel: Composer, dies at 41
- 05-16Kaspar Ett: German Organist / composer, dies at 59
- 05-20Mary Lamb: Writer
- 07-01George F Kersting: German painter, dies at 61
- 07-11Joachim G le Sage at Trousers: RC foreman / publicist, dies at 71
- 07-19Johann Wilhelm Wilms: Composer, dies at 75
- 09-23Henri MG Earl the Merode: Belg revolutionary (Souvenirs), dies at 65
- 10-14William Michael Rooke: Composer, dies at 53
- 11-04Jacob L Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: German pianist / composer, dies at 38
- 12-11Moritz Grave von Strachwitz: German poet, dies at 25
- 12-29William Crotch: Composer, dies at 72
Events in year of 1848
- 01-01Britain takes Mosquito Coast from Nicaragua
- 01-08Austrian soldiers kill 10 students, Pavia
- 01-091st commercial bank in SF established
- 01-28King of Naples grants his subjects a constitution
- 01-29Sicily accepts new Constitution (choose parliament / freedom of press)
- 02-021st ship load of Chinese arrive in San Francisco
- 02-02Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends Mexican War; US acquires Texas California, New Mexico and Arizona for $15 million
- 02-12Ballet "Faust" premieres, Milan
- 02-14James K Polk became 1st President photographed in office (Matthew Brady)
- 02-15Sarah Roberts barred from white school in Boston
- 02-17Toscane gets liberal Constitution
- 02-24King Louis-Philippe abdicates, 2nd French Republic declared
- 02-262nd French Republic forms
- 02-262nd French Republic proclaimed
- 02-26Marx and Engels publish "Communist Manifesto"
- 02-29Neufchatel declares independence of Switzerland
- 03-04Sardinia-Piemonte gets new Constitution
- 03-07In Hawaii, Great Mahele (division of lands) signed
- 03-122nd Republic established in France
- 03-20King Louis I of Bayern abdicates to marry dancer Lola Montez
- 03-24State of siege proclaimed in Amsterdam
- 03-27John Parker Paynard originates medicated adhesive plaster
- 03-29Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam
- 04-03Thomas Douglas becomes 1st SF public teacher
- 04-06Jews of Prussia granted equality
- 04-081st battle at Gioto: Sardinia-Piemonte beats Austrians
- 04-08Battle at Xaquixaguana, Peru: Pedro de la Gasca beats Gonzalo Pizarro
- 04-11Hungary becomes constitutional monarchy under King Ferdinand of Aust
- 04-28Free last slaves in French colonies
- 05-06Otto Tank ends slavery in Suriname colony
People born in year of 1848
- 01-05Khristo Botev: Hero of Bulgarian revolt against Turkey, poet
- 01-21Henri Duparc: French composer
- 01-22Samuel Muller Fzn: Dutch historian / archivist (Middle Ages)
- 02-04[Francois-Victor-]Jean Aicard: French playwright / poet (Jeune Croyances)
- 02-05Belle Starr [Myra Belle Shirley]: US female outlaw (wild west)
- 02-05Joris-Karl Huysmans: France -- Writer (Against the Grain)
- 02-06Luigi Mancinelli: Composer
- 02-16Hugo de Vries: Dutch Botanist (How species emerge)
- 02-18Louis Comfort Tiffany: Glassmaker (stained glass windows)
- 02-23Thomas Paine Westendorf: Composer
- 02-24C Grant B Allen: Canadian writer (Woman Who Did)
- 02-24Johanna C P Barbiers: Actress (Voddenraper of Paris)
- 02-27Charles Hubert H Parry: England, United Kingdom -- Musicologist / composer (Jerusalem)
- 03-01Augustus Saint-Gaudens: United States -- Sculptor / designer (1907 $20 gold piece)
- 03-09Martin Pierre Joseph Marsick: Composer
- 03-12Cyrill Kistler: Composer
- 03-17Horace Wadham Nicholl: Composer
- 03-18Nathaniel Herreshoff: America Cup yacht designer
- 03-19Wyatt Earp: Monmouth, Illinois -- Sheriff (OK Corral)
- 03-29Aleksei Kuropatkin: Russian General / Minister of War
- 03-31John Henry Roberts: Composer
- 04-09Helena Lange: German feminist
- 04-28Ludvig Schytte: Composer
- 05-05Adalbert von Goldschmidt: Composer
- 05-23Helmuth J L von Moltke: German General / Chief of Staff (WWI)
- 05-23Otto Lilienthal: Pioneer aviator
- 06-01Otto Valdemar Malling: Composer
- 06-07Paul Gaugin [Eugene Henri]: French post-impressionist painter
- 06-23Antoine Joseph Sax: Inventor (saxophone)
- 06-24Brooks Adams: US philosopher (Theory of Social Revolutions)
People died in year of 1848
- 01-05Ferdinando Orlandi: Composer, dies at 73
- 02-20[Willem] Alexander FCNM: Prince of the Netherlands / General Major, dies at 29
- 02-23John Quincy Adams: 6th US President (1825-1829), dies of a stroke at 80
- 03-03Heinrich Olivier: German painter
- 03-20Abraham des Amorie van der Hoeven: Dutch Theologist / poet, dies at 27
- 03-29John Jacob Astor: Charted American Fur Company, dies at 84
- 04-08Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti: Italian composer, dies at 50
- 04-08Gaetano Donizetti: Composer, dies at 50
- 04-10Godert AGP baron van Capellen: Governor-General of Dutch-Indies, dies at 69
- 04-30Friedrich Freiherr Gagern: German / Dutch army commandant, dies at 53
- 05-18William A Leidesdorf: Black, dies at 38 in San Francisco
- 06-27Denis-Auguste Affre: Archbsp of Paris (1840-48), shot to death at 54
- 06-27Zschokke: Writer
- 07-04Francois Rene de Chateaubriand: French Novelist (Atala) / diplomat
- 07-22Karl Guhr: Composer, dies at 60
- 08-06Nicola Vaccai: Italian composer, dies at 58
- 08-09Frederick Marryat: English captain / Author (Mr Midshipman Easy)
- 08-12George Stephenson: Locomotive engineer
- 08-15Timothy Olmstead: Composer, dies at 88
- 09-11Henri-Philippe Gerard: Composer, dies at 87
- 10-04Louis Massonneau: Composer, dies at 82
- 10-26Vissarion G Belinski: Russian literature critic
- 10-27Alexander Egorovich Varlamov: Composer, dies at 46
- 11-09Robert Blum: German MP (Liberal), executed
- 11-15P Rossi: Italian, murdered
- 11-17Jozef B "Olim" Cannaert: Flemish lawyer
- 11-23Alfred Julius Becher: Composer, dies at 45
- 11-24William Lamb 2nd viscount Melbourne: British Prime Minister (1834-41), dies at 69
- 12-19Adam FJA van Duyn: Governor of South Holland, dies at 77
- 12-25Johann Erik Nordblom: Composer, dies at 60