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| 1849 |
| | | A new Roman republic is proclaimed, with veteran agitator Giuseppe Mazzini in the leading role | |
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| 1849 |
| | | Charles Dickens begins the publication in monthly numbers of David Copperfield, his own favourite among his novels | |
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| 1849 |
| | | A British victory at the Battle of Gujarat effectively ends the second Anglo-Sikh war, and is followed by annexation of the Punjab | |
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| 1849 |
| | | Giuseppe Garibaldi arrives from exile in South America to defend the new Roman republic against a French army | |
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| 1849 |
| | | Delegates of the German states offer the imperial crown of a united Germany to Frederick William IV, the king of Prussia, who rejects it | |
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| 1849 |
| | | Francis Parkman's The Oregon Trail, already serialized in 1847, is published in book form | |
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| 1849 |
| | | Nationalist leader Lajos Kossuth announces the independence of Hungary and the deposition of the Habsburg dynasty | |
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| 1849 |
| | | An anti-British mob attacks the New York theatre where William Macready is appearing as Macbeth, leaving 22 dead and many injured | |
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| 1849 |
| | | Scottish painter David Roberts completes publication of his 6-volume The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia | |
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| 1849 |
| | | The gold rush to California gathers pace during 1849, causing the prospectors to become known as 'forty-niners' | |
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