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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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| 1848 |
| | | Gold is found on the property of John Sutter, at Coloma on the Sacramento river in California, and news of it launches the first gold rush | |
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| 1848 |
| | | An uprising in Sicily in January starts off Europe's 'year of revolutions' | |
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| 1848 |
| | | A treaty signed in Guadalupe-Hidalgo, ending the Mexican-American War, gives the US six new states | |
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| 1848 |
| | | Two New York girls, Maggie and Katie Fox, claim to be in touch with the spirit of a murdered man, thus launching the modern cult of spiritualism | |
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| 1848 |
| | | The Prussian army is the first to adopt a breech-loading rifle, the 'needle-gun' developed by gunsmith Johann Nikolaus von Dreyse | |
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| 1848 |
| | | A revolution in Paris in February removes Louis-Philippe and introduces France's second republic | |
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| 1848 |
| | | The Wilmot Proviso is defeated in the US Senate, heightening north-south tensions on the issue of slavery | |
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| 1848 |
| | | The Communist Manifesto, by Marx and Engels, is published in Paris with the ringing slogan: 'Workers of the world, unite!' | |
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| 1848 |
| | | An uprising in Vienna leads to the resignation, on the following day, of the long-serving chancellor Klemens von Metternich | |
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| 1848 |
| | | Another uprising in Vienna causes the emperor Ferdinand I to flee for safety to Innsbruck | |
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| 1848 |
| | | With Wisconsin admitted as the 30th state, the western boundary of the USA now runs from Lake Superior to the Rio Grande | |
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| 1848 |
| | | Martial law is imposed in Prague after a demonstration by radical Czech students following a Pan-Slav congress | |
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| 1848 |
| | | Scottish physicist William Thomson, later Lord Kelvin, proposes the 'absolute' scale of temperature | |
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| 1848 |
| | | Harry Smith annexes for Britain the land between the Orange and Vaal rivers, calling it the Orange River Sovereignty | |
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| 1848 |
| | | English caricaturist George Cruikshank publishes The Drunkard's Children in support of the developing Temperance movement | |
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| 1848 |
| | | Honoré de Balzac completes publication of La Comédie Humaine, a 17-volume collected edition of his numerous novels and stories | |
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| 1848 |
| | | US feminists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organize a convention on women's rights in Seneca Falls, New York | |
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| 1848 |
| | | Suppression of unrest in Hungary provokes a third violent uprising in Vienna and another flight by Ferdinand I, this time to Olomouc | |
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| 1848 |
| | | Louis Napoleon is elected the first president of France's new Second Republic | |
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