✦ 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

Queen Victoria age 23
Queen - United Kingdom
Zachary Taylor age 57
President - United States
James K. Polk age 46
President - United States
John Tyler age 52
President - United States
Napoleon III age 34
President - France
Nicholas I of Russia age 46
Emperor - Russian Empire
Louis Philippe I age 68
King of the French - France
Victor Emmanuel II age 22
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Pedro II of Brazil age 16
Emperor - Brazil
Leopold I of Belgium age 51
King - Belgium
Abdülmecid I age 19
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Ferdinand I of Austria age 49
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 48
President - Mexico
Sam Houston age 49
President - Republic of Texas
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar age 11
Shah - Iran
Emperor Kōmei age 11
Emperor - Japan
Charles Albert age 43
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Daoguang Emperor age 59
Emperor - Imperial China
Mohammad Shah Qajar age 34
Shah - Iran
Emperor Ninkō age 42
Emperor - Japan
Rafael Carrera age 26
President - Guatemala
Yohannes III age 45
Emperor - Ethiopia
Anson Jones age 44
President - Republic of Texas
José Venancio López age 51
President - Guatemala
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 12
Emperor - Austrian Empire
Heonjong of Joseon age 14
King - Joseon
Frederick William IV of Prussia age 46
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure age 75
President - France
Louis-Eugène Cavaignac age 39
President - France
José Joaquín de Herrera age 50
President - Mexico
Nicolás Bravo age 56
President - Mexico
Pedro María de Anaya age 48
President - Mexico
Valentín Gómez Farías age 61
President - Mexico
Mariano Paredes age 45
President - Mexico
Manuel de la Peña y Peña age 53
President - Mexico
Valentín Canalizo age 48
President - Mexico
José Mariano Salas age 45
President - Mexico
Klemens von Metternich age 69
State Chancellor - Austrian Empire
Robert Peel age 54
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 50
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Roger B. Taney age 65
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Millard Fillmore age 42
Vice President - United States
George M. Dallas age 50
Vice President - United States
James Buchanan age 51
Secretary of State - United States
John C. Calhoun age 60
Secretary of State - United States
Daniel Webster age 60
Secretary of State - United States
Winfield Scott age 56
Commanding General of the US Army - United States
William L. Marcy age 55
Secretary of War - United States
Abel P. Upshur age 52
Secretary of State - United States
John M. Clayton age 46
Secretary of State - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 54
Secretary of War - United States
George M. Bibb age 65
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Walter Forward age 56
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John Nelson age 51
Secretary of State - United States
Nathan Clifford age 39
Attorney General - United States
William M. Meredith age 43
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Isaac Toucey age 49
Attorney General - United States
John Y. Mason age 43
Attorney General - United States
George W. Crawford age 43
Secretary of War - United States
Hugh S. Legaré age 45
Secretary of State - United States
Reverdy Johnson age 46
Attorney General - United States
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet age 50
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook age 46
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax age 41
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet age 43
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
James Madison Porter age 49
Secretary of War - United States
Henry Goulburn age 58
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington age 62
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
William S. Derrick age 40
Secretary of State - United States
Benjamin Disraeli age 37
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone age 32
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby age 43
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 63
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie age 30
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Levi Woodbury age 52
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon age 42
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton age 44
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell age 62
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Charles Herries age 64
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
James Alexander Hamilton age 54
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Jefferson Davis age 34
Senate - United States
William H. Seward age 41
Senate - United States
Hannibal Hamlin age 33
Senate - United States
William R. King age 56
Senate - United States
Henry Clay age 65
Senate - United States
Salmon P. Chase age 34
Senate - United States
Lewis Cass age 59
Senate - United States
John Adams Dix age 44
Senate - United States
Simon Cameron age 43
Senate - United States
Thomas Corwin age 48
Senate - United States
John J. Crittenden age 55
Senate - United States
John Bell (Tennessee politician) age 46
Senate - United States
John M. Berrien age 61
Senate - United States
Charles Magill Conrad age 37
Senate - United States
Abraham Lincoln age 33
House of Representatives - United States
John Quincy Adams age 75
House of Representatives - United States
Andrew Johnson age 33
House of Representatives - United States
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 73
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John C. Breckinridge age 21
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 78
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Addington age 85
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James G. Blaine age 12
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph E. Johnston age 35
House of Representatives - United States
Edward Everett age 48
House of Representatives - United States
John Sherman age 19
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander H. Stephens age 30
House of Representatives - United States
Albert Gallatin age 81
House of Representatives - United States
Benjamin Franklin Butler age 23
House of Representatives - United States
Hamilton Fish age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Sterling Price age 32
House of Representatives - United States
Caleb Cushing age 42
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell age 73
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Francis Thomas age 31
House of Representatives - United States
Howell Cobb age 26
House of Representatives - United States
William P. Fessenden age 35
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo age 20
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alexander Ramsey age 26
House of Representatives - United States
Joseph McKenna born 1843-08-10
House of Representatives - United States
John Alexander McClernand age 30
House of Representatives - United States
George Cornewall Lewis age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 62
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 59
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Spencer Horatio Walpole age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Lowry-Corry age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry W. Slocum age 14
House of Representatives - United States
Duncan Lamont Clinch age 55
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 93
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet age 70
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph Wheeler age 5
House of Representatives - United States
Charles Napier age 56
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John B. Floyd age 36
Governor of Virginia - United States
George N. Briggs age 46
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
J. Pinckney Henderson age 34
Governor of Texas - United States
Marcus Morton age 57
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
George Tyler Wood age 47
Governor of Texas - United States
Wilson Shannon age 40
Governor of Ohio - United States
Silas Wright age 47
Governor of New York - United States
James C. Jones age 33
Governor of Tennessee - United States
William Pennington age 46
Governor of New Jersey - United States
William Smith age 46
Governor of Virginia - United States
Thomas Pratt age 38
Governor of Maryland - United States
Neill S. Brown age 32
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Archibald Yell age 45
Governor of Arkansas - United States
John Selden Roane age 25
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Thomas S. Drew age 40
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Francis Thomas age 43
Governor of Maryland - United States
James McDowell age 46
Governor of Virginia - United States
Thomas W. Bartley age 30
Governor of Ohio - United States
Mordecai Bartley age 58
Governor of Ohio - United States
Seabury Ford age 40
Governor of Ohio - United States
William Bebb age 39
Governor of Ohio - United States
James Whitcomb age 46
Governor of Indiana - United States
Daniel Haines age 41
Governor of New Jersey - United States
William C. Bouck age 56
Governor of New York - United States
Richard C. Byrd age 37
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Samuel Adams (Arkansas politician) age 37
Governor of Arkansas - United States
John Young age 40
Governor of New York - United States
John Munford Gregory age 38
Governor of Virginia - United States
Charles C. Stratton age 46
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Paris C. Dunning age 36
Governor of Indiana - United States
Samuel Bigger age 40
Governor of Indiana - United States
Martin Van Buren age 59
New York State Senate - United States
Henry Wilson age 30
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William A. Wheeler age 23
New York State Senate - United States
Richard Olney age 6
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Nathaniel P. Banks age 26
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
George S. Boutwell age 24
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Charles J. Folger age 24
New York State Senate - United States
William F. Wharton born 1847-06-28
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Sickles age 22
New York State Senate - United States
Charles XIV John age 79
King - Sweden
Isabella II age 11
Queen - Spain
Oscar I age 43
King - Sweden
Christian VIII age 55
Monarch - Denmark
Frederick VII of Denmark age 33
Monarch - Denmark
Rama III age 54
King - Thailand
Joseph Jenkins Roberts age 33
President - Liberia
Juan José Flores age 42
President - Ecuador
Carlos Antonio López age 51
President - Paraguay
Fructuoso Rivera age 57
President - Uruguay
Jean-Pierre Boyer age 66
President - Haiti
Manuel Bulnes age 42
President - Chile
Manuel Oribe age 50
President - Uruguay
Ramón Castilla age 45
President - Peru
José Joaquín de Olmedo age 62
President - Ecuador
Faustin Soulouque age 60
President - Haiti
José Ballivián age 37
President - Bolivia
Juan Lindo age 52
President - Honduras
Carlos Soublette age 52
President - Venezuela
Juan Francisco de Vidal age 42
President - Peru
José Tadeo Monagas age 57
President - Venezuela
José Miguel de Velasco age 46
President - Bolivia
Manuel Ignacio de Vivanco age 36
President - Peru
Juan Crisóstomo Torrico age 34
President - Peru
Manuel Isidoro Belzu age 34
President - Bolivia
Eusebio Guilarte age 36
President - Bolivia
Francisco Ferrera age 48
President - Honduras
Coronado Chávez age 34
President - Honduras