✦ History

Explore August 30, 1842 – July 10, 1849

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Events

Trail of Tears 1830-05-28 - 1850
First Morse telegraph line 1844-05-24
Great Famine (Ireland) 1845-09 - 1852
Texas annexation 1845-12-29
Mexican-American War 1846-04-25 - 1848-02-02
Siege of Fort Texas 1846-05-03 - 1846-05-09
Battle of Palo Alto 1846-05-08 - 1846-05-08
Battle of Resaca de la Palma 1846-05-09 - 1846-05-09
Repeal of the Corn Laws 1846-06-25
Battle of Monterrey 1846-09-21 - 1846-09-24
Battle of San Pasqual 1846-12-06 - 1846-12-07
Battle of El Brazito 1846-12-25 - 1846-12-25
Battle of Río San Gabriel 1847-01-08 - 1847-01-09
Battle of Buena Vista 1847-02-22 - 1847-02-23
Battle of the Sacramento River 1847-02-28 - 1847-02-28
Siege of Veracruz 1847-03-09 - 1847-03-29
Battle of Cerro Gordo 1847-04-18 - 1847-04-18
Battle of Contreras 1847-08-19 - 1847-08-20
Battle of Churubusco 1847-08-20 - 1847-08-20
Battle of Molino del Rey 1847-09-08 - 1847-09-08
Battle of Chapultepec 1847-09-12 - 1847-09-13
Siege of Puebla (1847) 1847-09-14 - 1847-10-12
Sonderbund War 1847-11-03 - 1847-11-29
Revolutions of 1848 1848-01-12 - 1849-10-04
California Gold Rush 1848-01-24 - 1855-12-31
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848-02-02
The Communist Manifesto published 1848-02-21
Italian unification 1848-03-18 - 1871-01-26
Seneca Falls Convention 1848-07-19 - 1848-07-20

People

Pedro Alcántara Herrán age 41
President - Colombia
Doroteo Vasconcelos age 39
President - El Salvador
Francisco Malespín age 35
President - El Salvador
Joaquín Eufrasio Guzmán age 41
President - El Salvador
Diego Bautista Urbaneja age 59
President - Venezuela
Fermín Palacios
President - El Salvador
José Félix Quirós age 31
President - El Salvador
José María Caminero age 60
President - Dominican Republic
José Antonio Páez age 52
President - Venezuela
William III of the Netherlands age 25
King - Netherlands
William II of the Netherlands age 49
King - Netherlands
Lajos Kossuth age 39
Prime Minister - Hungary
Lajos Batthyány age 35
Prime Minister - Hungary
Konstantinos Kanaris age 52
Prime Minister - Greece
Ioannis Kolettis age 69
Prime Minister - Greece
Charles Rogier age 42
Prime Minister - Belgium
Adam Wilhelm Moltke age 57
Prime Minister - Denmark
Georgios Kountouriotis age 60
Prime Minister - Greece
Jean-Baptiste Nothomb age 37
Prime Minister - Belgium
Gerrit Schimmelpenninck age 48
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt age 48
Prime Minister - Belgium
Sylvain Van de Weyer age 40
Prime Minister - Belgium
Andreas Metaxas age 56
Prime Minister - Greece
Kitsos Tzavelas age 41
Prime Minister - Greece
Bertalan Szemere age 30
Prime Minister - Hungary
Jacob de Kempenaer age 49
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Gaspard-Théodore-Ignace de la Fontaine age 55
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
João Carlos de Saldanha Oliveira e Daun, 1st Duke of Saldanha age 51
Prime Minister - Portugal
Jean-Jacques Willmar age 50
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Ádám Récsey age 67
Prime Minister - Hungary
Robert FitzRoy age 37
Governor-General - New Zealand
William Hobson age 48
Governor-General - New Zealand
Karl Marx age 24
Leo Tolstoy age 13
Charles Darwin age 33
Fyodor Dostoevsky age 20
Friedrich Nietzsche born 1844-10-15
Thomas Edison born 1847-02-11
Charles Dickens age 30
Otto von Bismarck age 27
Louis Pasteur age 19
Richard Wagner age 29
Friedrich Engels age 21
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 2
Michael Faraday age 50
Dmitri Mendeleev age 8
Giuseppe Verdi age 28
Andrew Jackson age 75
James Clerk Maxwell age 11
Alexander Graham Bell born 1847-03-03
Ulysses S. Grant age 20
Claude Monet age 1
Florence Nightingale age 22
James A. Garfield age 10
Grover Cleveland age 5
William McKinley born 1843-01-29
Rutherford B. Hayes age 19
Franklin Pierce age 37
Benjamin Harrison age 9
Gregor Mendel age 20
Ada Lovelace age 26
Chester A. Arthur age 12
Giuseppe Garibaldi age 35
Pius X age 7
Leo XIII age 32
Charles Babbage age 50
Carl Benz born 1844-11-25
Paul von Hindenburg born 1847-10-02
Edward VII age 9 months
Alexander II of Russia age 24
Harriet Tubman age 20
Abdul Hamid II born 1842-09-21
Robert E. Lee age 35
Georges Clemenceau age 11 months
Empress Dowager Cixi age 6
Alexander III of Russia born 1845-03-10
Giuseppe Mazzini age 37
Leopold II of Belgium age 7
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour age 32
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 177
Frederick Douglass age 24
Wilhelm I age 45
Susan B. Anthony age 22
Arthur Balfour born 1848-07-25
José de San Martín age 64
Benito Juárez age 36
Adolphe Thiers age 45
Porfirio Díaz age 11
Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 26
Patrice de MacMahon age 34
Frederick III, German Emperor age 10
Umberto I of Italy born 1844-03-14
Abdulaziz age 12
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 73
Mehmed V born 1844-11-02
Itō Hirobumi age 10 months
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder age 41
Joseph Bonaparte age 74
William Tecumseh Sherman age 22
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury age 12
Charles XV age 16
Murad V age 1
Maximilian I of Mexico age 10
Christian IX of Denmark age 24
Oscar II of Sweden age 13
Alexandra of Denmark born 1844-12-01
Amadeo I of Spain born 1845-05-30
John A. Macdonald age 27
Stonewall Jackson age 18
Armand Fallières age 9 months
Jules Grévy age 35
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 5
Deodoro da Fonseca age 15
Auguste Beernaert age 13
Elihu Root born 1845-02-15
Edmund Barton born 1849-01-18
Bernhard von Bülow born 1849-05-03
Frederik VIII of Denmark born 1843-06-03
Carol I of Romania age 3
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 58
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 5
Félix Faure age 1
Mongkut age 37
Sergei Witte born 1849-06-29
Émile Loubet age 3
Menelik II born 1844-08-17
Richard Mentor Johnson age 61
Jean Casimir-Perier born 1847-11-08
Abdur Rahman Khan age 2
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 4
Garret Hobart born 1844-06-03
Levi P. Morton age 18
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger born 1848-05-25
Leo von Caprivi age 11
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento age 31
Schuyler Colfax age 19
Thomas A. Hendricks age 22
Katsura Tarō born 1848-01-04
Saigō Takamori age 14
Clara Barton age 20
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery born 1847-05-07
Peter I of Serbia born 1844-07-11
Xianfeng Emperor age 11
Georg von Hertling born 1843-08-31
Giovanni Giolitti born 1842-10-27
Guadalupe Victoria age 55
Yamagata Aritomo age 4
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst age 23
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 71
Demetrios Vikelas age 7
Joseph Chamberlain age 6
Ismail Kemal born 1844-01-16
Francesco Crispi age 23
Bartolomé Mitre age 21
George B. McClellan age 15
Wilfrid Laurier age 9 months
Nikola Pašić born 1845-12-18
David Farragut age 41
Matsukata Masayoshi age 7
Floriano Peixoto age 3
Gyula Andrássy age 19
Leland Stanford age 18
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 4
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 1
Prudente de Morais age 11 months
Alexander Mackenzie age 20
Hong Xiuquan age 28
George Meade age 26
George Reid born 1845-02-25
Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 25
Albert I, Prince of Monaco born 1848-11-13
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 59
Bettino Ricasoli age 33
Rodrigues Alves born 1848-07-07
Afonso Pena born 1847-11-30
John Abbott age 21
Julio Argentino Roca born 1843-07-17
Abraham Kuyper age 4
Agostino Depretis age 29
Sidney Sonnino born 1847-03-11
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke age 44
Urbano Rattazzi age 34
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora age 37
Campos Sales age 1
Bernardino Rivadavia age 62
Paolo Boselli age 4
John Hay age 3
Giuseppe Zanardelli age 15
Tewodros II age 24
Teófilo Braga born 1843-02-24
James Longstreet age 21
Nathan Bedford Forrest age 21
Justo José de Urquiza age 40
John Sparrow David Thompson born 1845-11-10
Mihail Kogălniceanu age 24
Práxedes Mateo Sagasta age 17
P. G. T. Beauregard age 24
Luigi Federico Menabrea age 33
José Manuel Balmaceda age 2
Louis Gerhard De Geer age 24