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1849

Events of 1849

France issues Ceres, France's first postage stamp.
In Milan, anti-Austrian activists organize a smoking boycott in protest of the Austrian monopoly on tobacco. Protests erupts into brief riots.

January 12 - Uprising against Austrian troops in Palermo, Sicily.
January 13 -Second Anglo-Sikh War - British forces retreat from the Battle of Tooele.
January 21 - General elections in the Papal States.
January 23 - Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her MD by the Medical Institute of Geneva, New York, thus becoming the United States' first woman doctor.
January 31 - Corn Laws abolished in the United Kingdom (following legislation in 1846).
February 8 - New Roman Republic established.
February 14 - In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first President of the United States to have his photograph taken.
February 28 - Regular steamboat service from the west to the east coast of the United States begins with the arrival of the SS California in San Francisco Bay. The California left New York Harbor on October 6, 1848, rounded Cape Horn at the tip of South America, and arrived at San Francisco, California after the 4 month 21 day journey.
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March 4 - Zachary Taylor refuses to be sworn in office on a Sabbath (Sunday). Urban legend holds that David Rice Atchison, President pro tempore of the United States Senate was President de jure for a single day.
March 5 - Zachary Taylor, the 12th President of the United States of America, takes his oath of office.
March 28 - Four Christians are ordered burnt alive in Antananarivo, Madagascar by Queen Ranavalona I and 14 others are executed.
March 29 - The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab

April 1 - After ten days, the insurrection in Brescia is ended by Austrian troops.
April 2 - The Revolutions of 1848 in the German states end and fail.
April 14 - Hungary declares independence from Austria
April 21 - Irish Potato Famine: 96 inmates of the overcrowded Ballinrobe Union Workhouse die over the course of the preceding week from illness and other famine-related conditions, a record high.
April 25 - The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.
April 27 - Giuseppe Garibaldi enters in Rome to defend it from the French troops of General Oudinot.
May 3 - The May Uprising in Dresden begins - the last of the German revolutions of 1848.
May 3 - Break in the Mississippi River levee at Sauvé's Crevasse which will flood much of New Orleans, Louisiana
May 15 - Troops of the Two Sicilies take Palermo and crush the republican government of Sicily
May 17 - The St. Louis Fire started when a steamboat caught fire and nearly burned down the entire city.
June 5 - Denmark becomes constitutional monarchy
June 6 - The city of Fort Worth, Texas is founded, at that time known as "Camp Worth". Starting off humbly, the city would one day be a major cattle-herding center, and a major center of commerce in the South.

July 3 - French troops occupy Rome. Roman Republic surrenders.
July 6 - The Danish Army beats the Prussian army at Fredericia, Jutland thereby putting an end to the Prussian/Danish War until 1864
August 8 – Austria crushes the Hungarian rebellion with Russian aid.
August 24 - Venice surrenders to Austrian troops after a 4-month siege
September 1 - The first segment of the Pennsylvania Railroad, from Lewiston, Pennsylvania to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, opens for service.

October 6 - The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian War of Independence.
November - Austin College received charter in Huntsville
November 16 - A Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group, but his execution is canceled at the last minute

July 22 - Emma Lazarus, American poet (d. 1887)
July 29 - Max Nordau, Austrian author, philosopher, and Zionist leader (d. 1923)
August 28 - Benjamin Godard, French composer (d. 1895)
September 3 - Sarah Orne Jewett, American writer (d. 1909)
September 14 - Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, Russian researcher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1936)
November 29 - John Ambrose Fleming, English electrical engineer and inventor (d. 1945)
December 4 - Crazy Horse, Chief of the Oglala Sioux (d. 1877)
December 6 - August von Mackensen, German field marshal (d. 1945)
December 12 - William Kissam Vanderbilt, American railway magnate (d. 1920)