Important Historical Events of the year 1849, Year 1849 in History

1. Birthday Age Calculator
2. Historical Events By Year
3. 19th Century Years
4. Important Historical Events of the year 1849

List of 1849 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1849

What happened in the year 1849?

Date	Event
January 13, 1849	Establishment of the Colony of Vancouver Island.
January 13, 1849	Second Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Chillianwala: British forces retreat from the Sikhs.
January 22, 1849	Second Anglo-Sikh War: The Siege of Multan ends after nine months when the last Sikh defenders of Multan, Punjab, surrender.
January 23, 1849	Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Geneva Medical College of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States' first female doctor.
February 9, 1849	The new Roman Republic is declared.
February 13, 1849	The delegation headed by Metropolitan bishop Andrei Șaguna hands out to the Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria the General Petition of Romanian leaders in Transylvania, Banat and Bukovina, which demands that the Romanian nation be recognized.
February 14, 1849	In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving President of the United States to have his photograph taken.
March 3, 1849	The Territory of Minnesota is created.
March 4, 1849	President-elect of the United States Zachary Taylor and Vice President-elect Millard Fillmore did not take their respective oaths of office (they did so the following day), leading to the erroneous theory that outgoing President pro tempore of the United States Senate David Rice Atchison had assumed the role of acting president for one day.
March 22, 1849	The Austrians defeat the Piedmontese at the Battle of Novara.
March 29, 1849	The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab.
April 13, 1849	Lajos Kossuth presents the Hungarian Declaration of Independence in a closed session of the National Assembly.
April 14, 1849	Hungary declares itself independent of Austria with Lajos Kossuth as its leader.
April 25, 1849	The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.
May 3, 1849	The May Uprising in Dresden begins: The last of the German revolutions of 1848–49.
May 10, 1849	Astor Place Riot: A riot breaks out at the Astor Opera House in Manhattan, New York City over a dispute between actors Edwin Forrest and William Charles Macready, killing at least 22 and injuring over 120.
May 15, 1849	The Sicilian revolution of 1848 is finally extinguished.
May 22, 1849	Future U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is issued a patent for an invention to lift boats, making him the only U.S. president to ever hold a patent.
June 1, 1849	Territorial Governor Alexander Ramsey declared the Territory of Minnesota officially established.
June 5, 1849	Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new constitution.
July 3, 1849	France invades the Roman Republic and restores the Papal States.
July 16, 1849	Antonio María Claret y Clará founds the Congregation of the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, popularly known as the Claretians in Vic, in the province of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
August 1, 1849	Joven Daniel wrecks at the coast of Araucanía, Chile, leading to allegations that local Mapuche tribes murdered survivors and kidnapped Elisa Bravo.
August 22, 1849	The first air raid in history occurs; Austria launches pilotless balloons against the city of Venice.
August 22, 1849	Passaleão incident: João Maria Ferreira do Amaral, the governor of Portuguese Macau, is assassinated by a group of Chinese locals, triggering a military confrontation between China and Portugal at the Battle of Passaleão three days after.
August 26, 1849	President Faustin Soulouque of the First Republic of Haiti has the Senate and Chamber of Deputies proclaim him the Emperor of Haiti, abolishing the Republic and inaugurating the Second Empire of Haiti.
August 28, 1849	Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire: After a month-long siege, Venice, which had declared itself independent as the Republic of San Marco, surrenders to Austria.
September 17, 1849	American abolitionist Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery.
October 6, 1849	The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence.
October 12, 1849	The city of Manizales, Colombia, is founded by 'The Expedition of the 20'.
November 16, 1849	A Russian court sentences writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his sentence is later commuted to hard labor.