Significant Events
- Feb 2 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends the Mexican-American War: US acquires Texas, California, New Mexico and Arizona for $15 million
- May 30 Mexico ratifies treaty giving US; New Mexico, California & parts of Nevada, Utah, Arizona & Colorado in return for $15 million
- Jun 22 Beginning of the June Days uprising in Paris by French workers
- Jul 19 1st US women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls NY, organised by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
- Jul 29 Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt - an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule put down by police
- Sep 16 Slavery abolished in all French territories
- Dec 5 US President Polk triggers Gold Rush of 1849 by confirming gold discovery in California
Did You Know?
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish "The Communist Manifesto" in London
On February 21, 1848
World Leaders in 1848
James Knox Polk
11th US President
John Russell
British Prime Minister
Famous People in 1848
Charles Dickens
Novelist
Giuseppe Verdi
Composer
Arthur Balfour
Paul Gauguin
Wyatt EarpFamous Weddings
- Mar 8 Confederate General James Longstreet (27) weds Maria Louisa Garland in Lynchburg, Virginia
- Mar 20 King Louis I of Bayern abdicates to marry dancer Lola Montez
- Apr 10 British influential art critic and social commentator John Ruskin marries Effie Gray in Perth, Scotland (later annulled).
- Aug 10 Inventor Samuel Morse (57) weds Sarah Elizabeth Griswold in Utica, New York
- Aug 22 Soldier and later US President Ulysses Grant (26) marries Julia Dent
Emily Brontë
George Stephenson
John Jacob Astor
John Quincy Adams
Ludwig Leichhardt
William Lamb