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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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| 1849 |
| | | In Vienna the younger Johann Strauss succeeds his father as the Waltz King | |
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| 1849 |
| | | Pope Pius IX returns to Rome under the protection of French troops, with his enthusiasm for any form of change much reduced. | |
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| 1849 |
| | | The Habsburgs recover power in both Austria and Hungary | |
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| 1849 |
| | | Expelled from Germany after the year of revolutions, Marx makes his home in tolerant London | |
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| 1849 |
| | | Vancouver Island is given the status of a British crown colony, to be followed by British Columbia in 1858 | |
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| 1849 |
| | | Dante Gabriel Rossetti depicts his sister Christina in The Girlhood of Mary Virgin | |
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| 1849 |
| | | Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky undergoes a mock execution, after being sentenced to death for revolutionary activities against tsar Nicholas I | |
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