1848 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1848 - Events. The Revolutions of 1848, a series of widespread but failed struggles for more liberal governments, from Brazil to Hungary. January 12 - The Palermo rising in Sicily rises against the Bourbon kingdom of Two Sicilies January 24 - California Gold Rush: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter' ...

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1848 in rail transport - September events. September 9 - The high bridge of the Newcastle to Berwick Railway across the River Tyne in England is completed. September 10 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel's experimental atmospheric railway, the South Devon Railway, closes after less than a year of operation. 1848 in rail transport - December events. December - The Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, the oldest part of what is to become the Chicago an ...

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A wider field for his activity presented itself in 1848 (along with the Austrian Revolution). First he attempted to hold Vienna against the imperial troops of Windisch-Graetz, and, after the capitulation, hastened to Bratislava/Pozsony to offer his services to Lajos Kossuth, first defending himself, in a long memorial, from the accusations of treachery to the Polish cause and of aristocratic tendencies - which the more fanatical section of the Polish émigré Radicals repeatedly brought against him. He was entrusted with the de ...

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Bem was born in the area of Poland that had become part of the Habsburg Monarchy through the First Partition (in 1772). After the creation of the tiny Duchy of Warsaw on the territories captured by Napoleon I, Bem moved with his parents to Kraków, where after finishing military school (where he distinguished himself in mathematics) he joined the ducal forces as a fifteen-year-old cadet. Bem joined a Polish artillery regiment as a sub-lieutenant and then lieutenant in the French service, took part in the Russian campaign of 1812, and subsequently so brilliantly distinguished himself in the defence of Danzig (January-November 1813) that ...

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Then Bem escaped to Paris, where he supported himself by teaching mathematics. In France, he published his next work, on the National Uprising in Poland, in which he not only gave an appraisal the 1831 insurrection, but also tried to present a programme for the continuation of the struggle for the country's freedom. In 1833 he went to Portugal to assist the liberal Dom Pedro against the reactionary Dom Miguel, but abandoned the idea when it was found that a Polish legion could not be formed. In Portugal, he was the victim of an assassinati ...

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Victor Emmanuel II (Italian: Vittorio Emanuele II; March 14, 1820 – January 9, 1878) was the King of Piedmont, Savoy and Sardinia from 1849–1861. On February 18, 1861, he assumed the title as King of Italy to become the first king of a united Italy, a title he held till his death in 1878. Victor Emmanuel II of Italy - Life. Victor Emmanuel was born in Turin. During the reign of his father, Charles Albert, the kingdoms of Sardinia and Piedmont were united. Charles Albert went to war in 1848 agains ...

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Abbas I (Arabic: عباس الأول ) (1913-1854), Pasha of Egypt, was a son of Tusun Pasha and grandson of Mehmet Ali, founder of the reigning dynasty of Egypt at the time. As a young man he fought in Syria under Ibrahim Pasha, his real or supposed uncle. The death of Ibrahim in November 1848 made Abbas regent of Egypt. The following August of 1848, on the death of his grandfather Mehemet Ali (who had been deposed in July 1848 on account of mental weakness), Abb ...

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Bem was a man respected for his courage and heroic temper, both in contrast with his diminutive stature. His influence is said to have been magnetic: although none of his Székely subordinates understood the language he spoke, most regarded him with superstitious reverence. As a soldier Bem was remarkable for his excellent handling of artillery and the rapidity of his marches. A statue to his honour has been erected at Târgu-Mureş/Marosvásárhely, but he lives still more enduringly in the verses of the national poet Sándor Petőfi, who fell in ...

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Meagher (pronounced Mayor) came from an established Catholic Tipperary County family of tailors & vintners. His father, Thomas Meagher (1796–1874), was born in St John's Newfoundland to Thomas Meagher (1763–1837) and Mary Crotty and was a merchant for the "Waterford-Newfoundland" trade. He was an MP for Waterford and its first Roman Catholic Lord Mayor in over two hundred years, thanks to Daniel O'Connell's successful agitation. His wife Alicia Quan (1798–1827) was the second eldest daughter of Thomas Quan and Alicia Forristall. < ...

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As 1848 began, liberals in France awaited the death of King Louis Philippe, expecting a new revolution after his death. As it happened, he did not die until 1850, after the expected post-mortem revolution had burned itself out. As a quid pro quo for the return of the Bourbons after the Battle of Waterloo, the people had been given a charter of liberties, now dubiously maintained. Even though France had a free press and trial by jury, only landholders w ...

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Collins was born in London, the son of a well-known landscape painter, William Collins. At 17 he left school and was apprenticed to a firm of tea merchants, but after five unhappy years, during which he wrote his first novel Iolani, he entered Lincoln's Inn to study law. (Iolani remained unpublished for over 150 years, finally seeing print in 1999.) After his father's death in 1847, Collins produced his first published book, Memoirs of the Life of William Collins, Esq., R.A. (1848), and also considered a career in painti ...

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As king, Kamehameha took several steps to ensure that the islands remained a united realm even after his death. He unified the legal system and he used the products he collected in taxes to promote trade with Europe and the United States. Kamehameha did not allow non-Hawaiians to own land; they would not be able to until the Great Mahele of 1848. This edict ensured the islands' independence even while many of the other ...

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Ibrahim spent the rest of his life in peace, but his health was ruined. In 1846 he paid a visit to Western Europe, where he was received with some respect and a great deal of curiosity. When his father became senile, Ibrahim was appointed Regent in his place. He held his regency from July till the time of his death on 10 November 1848. ...

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The crisis came, and he used it to the full. On March 3, 1848, shortly after the news of the revolution in Paris had arrived, in a speech of surpassing power he demanded parliamentary government for Hungary and constitutional government for the rest of Austria. He appealed to the hope of the Habsburgs, "our beloved Archduke Franz Joseph" (then 17 years old), to perpetuate the ancient glory of the dynasty by meeting half-way the aspirations of a free people. He at once became the leader of the European revolution; his speech was read aloud in ...

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Mueller was born at Rostock, Germany, and was educated, after the early death of his parents, in Schleswig. He studied the flora of Schleswig and Holstein from 1840 to 1847. At age 22, Müller decided to go to the Australian colonies from Bremen. It is said that, still on the ship, he already fished the first plants out of the water to analyse them. After some time in Adelaide he soon moved to Melbourne, capital of the new colony of Victoria. He travelled through the colony from 1848 to 1852, discovering and des ...

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In 1831 Casimir-Périer formed a more vigorous and compact administration, terminated in May 1832 by his death; the summer of that year was marked by a formidable republican rising in Paris, and it was not till October 11, 1832 that a stable government was formed, in which Marshal Soult was first minister, the duc de Brogue took the foreign office, Adolphe Thiers the home department, and Guizot the department of public instruction. This ministry, which lasted for nearly four years, was by far the ablest that ever served Louis Philippe. Guizo ...

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One of her most notable quotes is her deathbed utterance, "You can kill me as soon as you like, but you cannot stop the emancipation of women." It is believed that Qurrat al-'Ayn was the first woman in the world to proclaim the equality of men and women. However, a feminist convention was held in New York state in 1848. With the virtual extermination of the Bábi movement in the early 1850's, Táhirih was martyred in her early to mid 30's in 1852 in the garden of Ilkhani in Tehran. (A prominent Bábí, and subsequently Bahá'í, histo ...

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Between the years of 1846 and 1848, construction and fine details of one of Stewart’s most famous buildings known as “The Marble Palace” had been finalized. This establishment officially set A.T. Stewart and Company to the top of being one of America’s most successful retailers. The three-story building was located at Broadway and Chambers Street, just across from his first store, and offered imported European women’s clothing. In addition to its merchandise, the second floor offered the first women’s “fashion shows” as full ...

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Beecham was born in St. Helens, Lancashire, England. His father, Sir Joseph Beecham, 1st Baronet (1848-1916), was a wealthy patent pill manufacturer and civic leader, who had been awarded a baronetcy for continuing the work of his father Thomas Beecham (1820-1907), the inventor of "Beecham's Pills". Beecham was a great champion of various composers, including Delius, Bizet, Berlioz, Dame Ethel Smyth and Sibelius. He also often succeeded in presenting slight pieces, such as encores, in their best light, and this gave ri ...

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