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| 1847 |
| | | Charlotte becomes the first of the Brontë sisters to have a novel published — Jane Eyre | |
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| 1847 |
| | | Pretorius leads the last Boer families out of Natal and over the Drakensberg to the high veld | |
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| 1847 |
| | | Don Pacifico's house in Athens is burnt by an anti-Semitic crowd, provoking an international incident | |
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| 1847 |
| | | Brigham Young selects the site of Salt Lake City as the place for Mormon settlement | |
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| 1847 |
| | | Liberia wins independence and international recognition as a republic | |
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| 1847 |
| | | English mathematician George Boole describes Boolean algebra in his pamphlet Mathematical Analysis of Logic | |
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| 1847 |
| | | Ralph Waldo Emerson publishes his first collection of poems, many of which have appeared first in The Dial | |
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| 1847 |
| | | William Hickling Prescott follows his great work on Mexico with a 2-volume History of the Conquest of Peru | |
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| 1847 |
| | | Napoleon's widow, the empress Marie Louise, now the duchess of Parma, dies in Parma | |
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| 1847 |
| | | Emily Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights follows just two months after her sister Charlotte's Jane Eyre | |
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