Important Historical Events of the year 1848, Year 1848 in History

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What happened in the year 1848?

Date	Event
January 3, 1848	Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of Liberia.
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. Frémont is court-martialed for mutiny and disobeying orders.
February 2, 1848	Mexican–American War: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed.
February 21, 1848	Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto.
February 22, 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 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 11, 1848	Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government.
March 13, 1848	The German revolutions of 1848–1849 begin in Vienna.
March 15, 1848	A revolution breaks out in Hungary, and the Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the reform party.
March 18, 1848	The premiere of Fry's Leonora in Philadelphia is the first known performance of an grand opera by an American composer.
March 18, 1848	March Revolution: In Berlin there is a struggle between citizens and military, costing about 300 lives.
March 20, 1848	German revolutions of 1848–49: 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 3, 1848	The boar-crested Anglo-Saxon Benty Grange helmet is discovered in a barrow on the Benty Grange farm in Derbyshire.
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 22, 1848	Slavery is abolished in Martinique.
May 29, 1848	Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state.
June 2, 1848	The Slavic congress in Prague begins.
June 21, 1848	In the Wallachian Revolution, Ion Heliade Rădulescu and Christian Tell issue the Proclamation of Islaz and create a new republican government.
June 25, 1848	A photograph of the June Days uprising becomes the first known instance of photojournalism.
June 26, 1848	End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
July 3, 1848	Governor-General Peter von Scholten emancipates all remaining slaves in the Danish West Indies.
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.
July 20, 1848	The first Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, a two-day event, concludes.
July 29, 1848	Great Famine of Ireland: Tipperary Revolt: In County Tipperary, Ireland, then in the United Kingdom, 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.
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	A new constitution marks the establishment of Switzerland as a federal state.
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September 29, 1848	The Battle of Pákozd is a stalemate between Hungarian and Croatian forces and is the first battle of the Hungarian Revolution.
November 1, 1848	In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, Boston Female Medical School (which later merged with the Boston University School of Medicine), opens.
November 3, 1848	A greatly revised Dutch constitution, which transfers much authority from the king to his parliament and ministers, is proclaimed.
December 2, 1848	Franz Joseph I becomes Emperor of Austria.
December 5, 1848	California Gold Rush: In a message to the United States Congress, U.S. President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California.