* 1794 – Germinal Pierre Dandelin, Belgian mathematician ( d. 1847 )

* 1775 – Daniel O ' Connell, Irish politician ( d. 1847 )

* 1847 – Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo, Italian wife of Amadeo I of Spain ( d. 1876 )

* 1847 – The accidental shooting of a Māori by an English sailor results in the opening of the Wanganui Campaign of the New Zealand land wars.

* 1786 – John Franklin, English navy officer and explorer ( d. 1847 )

* 1847 – Hans Auer, Swiss architect ( d. 1906 )

* 1847 – Robert Comtesse, Swiss politician ( d. 1922 )

Several of Alexander's works were published in the Aldine edition of Aristotle, Venice, 1495 – 1498 ; his De Fato and De Anima were printed along with the works of Themistius at Venice ( 1534 ); the former work, which has been translated into Latin by Grotius and also by Schulthess, was edited by J. C. Orelli, Zürich, 1824 ; and his commentaries on the Metaphysica by H. Bonitz, Berlin, 1847.

* 1847 – Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer ( d. 1927 )

* 1847 – Birkenhead Park, the first civic public park, is opened in Birkenhead.

* 1912 – Bram Stoker, Irish author ( b. 1847 )

* Principality and Duchy of Anhalt-Köthen: 1396 – 1561 and 1603 – 1847

The Habsburgs founded a number of monasteries ( with some structures enduring, e. g., in Wettingen and Muri ), the closing of which by the government in 1841 was a contributing factor to the outbreak of the Swiss civil war – the " Sonderbund War " – in 1847.

Stone ( 1847 – 1938 ), a leading American silversmith, was born, trained and worked in Sheffield, England, and Edinburgh, Scotland, before travelling to the United States in 1884.

Stone 1847 – 1938: Designer and Silversmith " by Elenita C. Chickering, 1994, Boston Athenaeum

* 1847 – The last survivors of the Donner Party are out of the wilderness.

* 1767 – Nicolas Oudinot, French marshal ( d. 1847 )

Archduke Charles of Austria, Duke of Teschen (, also known as Karl von Österreich-Teschen ) ( Full name: Karl Ludwig Johann Josef Lorenz of Austria ) ( 5 September 1771 – 30 April 1847 ) was an Austrian field-marshal, the third son of emperor Leopold II and his wife Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain.

On 8 March 1873, at the urging of his father, the twenty-eight-year-old ` Abdu ’ l-Bahá married Fátimih Nahrí of Isfahán ( 1847 – 1938 ) a twenty-five-year-old noblewoman.

Work was also progressing on the northern half of the West Wing ( The Egyptian Sculpture Gallery ) 1826 – 1831, with Montagu House demolished in 1842 to make room for the final part of the West Wing, completed in 1846, and the South Wing with its great colonnade, initiated in 1843 and completed in 1847, when the Front Hall and Great Staircase were opened to the public.

#** Christine Charlotte Alexandrine Egypta Bonaparte ( 1798 – 1847 )

#*** Charles Albert Edmond Bonaparte ( 1843 – 1847 )

#* Prince Achille Murat ( 1801 – 1847 ), married Catherine Willis Gray ( 1803 – 1867 ), great-grandniece of George Washington.

In succeeding years, he gave series of lectures on “ Ichthyology ” ( 1847 – 48 season ), “ Comparative Embryology ” ( 1848 – 49 ), “ Functions of Life in Lower Animals ” ( 1850 – 51 ), “ Natural History ” ( 1853 – 54 ), “ Methods of Study in Natural History ” ( 1861 – 62 ), “ Glaciers and the Ice Period ” ( 1864 – 65 ), “ Brazil ” ( 1866 – 67 ) and “ Deep Sea Dredging ” ( 1869 – 70 ).

Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1847 – 48, satirizing society in early 19th-century Britain.

Murray drew numerous sketches of fur trade posts and of people and wrote the Journal of the Yukon, 1847 – 48, which give valuable insight into the culture of local Gwich ’ in people at the time.

Public-spirited citizens such as Tomlinson Fort ( mayor of Milledgeville, 1847 – 48 ) promoted better newspapers, learning academies, and banks.

Walsall finally received a railway line in 1847, 48 years after canals reached the town, Bescot having been served since 1838, by the Grand Junction Railway.

In 1847 / 48 he continued his work in Dublin as sole agent for the association.

* 1847 / 48 James Roe

In about 1847 – 48 George James McDonald, the Commissioner for Crown Lands for the Lower Darling District, arrived at the site of the present-day township with a police escort.

* Grace Church in Newark, New Jersey ( 1847 – 48 )

* Grundzüge der Staatswissenschaft ( 4 vols., Frankfort, 1847 – 48 )

* Casi d ' Italia negli anni 1847, 48 e 49: continuazione delle memorie del generale Guglielmo Pepe ( 1851 )

This opera received its world première on 22 July 1847, with the Swedish operatic diva Jenny Lind in the role of Amalia, and the British premières of two more Verdi operas, I due Foscari and Attila, followed in 1847 – 48.

Mure was Rector of the University of Glasgow 1847 – 48.

During the years 1847 – 48, and again in 1853, he returned to the Faroes to study the dialects and to collect the native ballads and folklore, which he published in 1851 – 55 under the title of Færöiske Kvæder.

He drew numerous sketches of fur trade posts and of people and wrote Journal of the Yukon, 1847 – 48, which give valuable insight into the culture of local First Nation people at the time.

He was not a candidate in the 1847 – 48 elections.

The Church of England parish church of the Holy Trinity is a 15th century Perpendicular Gothic building, restored and partially rebuilt in 1847 – 48 after a fire.

When in August 1847 Duleep Singh refused to invest Tej Singh as Raja of Sialkot, the British Resident, Henry Lawrence, imprisoned the Maharani in the Samman Tower of the Lahore Fort and, ten days later, moved her to the fortress in Sheikhupura and reduced her pension to 48, 000 rupees.