* 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 )

* 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.

Given these improvements dating back to 1728, a case could be made that Boston Common is in fact the world's first public urban park, since these developments precede the establishment of the earliest public urban parks in England — Derby Arboretum ( 1840 ), Peel Park, Salford ( 1846 ), and Birkenhead Park ( 1847 )— which are often considered the first.

Designed by James Meadows Rendel, protégé of Thomas Telford, the scheme was managed by the Birkenhead Dock Company until a financial crisis in 1847.

On 22 July 1847 the line was merged with the Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire Railway into the Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire Junction Railway who doubled the track.

In 1847 Queen Victoria granted Pembroke Lodge in the Petersham part of Richmond Park to John Russell, 1st Earl Russell and it became their family home.

What was then called " Carshalton " railway station was opened in 1847 in the open fields to the south of Wallington because the owner of Carshalton Park objected to it being built near to Carshalton village.

Circa 1880s engraving of an earlier Prison Ship Martyrs ' Monument | Monument in Fort Greene Park | Washington Park. Washington Park, renamed Fort Greene Park in 1897, was established as Brooklyn's first park in 1847 on a plot around the site of the old Fort.

A privately owned 1847 watercolour of Park House before its demolition.

This was demolished in 1847 and the site has now completely vanished beneath streets and housing, although the " Park Streets " of Chatteris mark the boundary of its walls and several buildings contain stone originating from the abbey.

The Rothschild Baronetcy, of Tring Park, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom in 1847 for Anthony de Rothschild, a banker and politician, with remainder to the male issue of his elder brother, Lionel de Rothschild, the first ever Member of Parliament of the Jewish faith.

Heritage registered houses include Como House ( 1847 ), one of Melbourne's earliest mansions on its large estate on Williams Road, now owned by the National Trust and known for its long association with the Armytage family, Richmond House ( 1859 ), in Avoca Street, formerly home to Sir Rupert Clarke Bt, Barwon ( 1881 ) and Airlie House on Domain Road, once the townhouse of the Chirnside family of Werribee Park fame, which now serves as a leadership college for Victoria Police.

In 1847, the site became Brooklyn's first park ( but see also Commodore Barry Park ) under the name of Washington Park.

In 1847 he resigned his governorship, and in 1848 was made a K. C. B., and settled at Scinde House, Clapham Park.

Thomson's " Aerial Wheels " were demonstrated in London's Regents Park in March 1847 and were fitted to several horse-drawn carriages, greatly improving the comfort of travel and reducing noise.

In 1847, the then Bytown was deeded acres by the Dominion government, and acquired another bought from owners over several years, to make up the initial grounds of Lansdowne Park.

Ninian Park is named after Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart ( 15 May 1883 – 2 October 1915 ), son of John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute ( 12 September 1847 – 9 October 1900 ).

Mitchell was the first paid secretary of the Zoological Society of London taking up the post on 10 / 02 / 1847 to 06 / 04 / 1859, instigating the construction of the first public marine aquarium in the Regent's Park Zoological Gardens which opened on 22 / 05 / 1853.

Its core is the extensive Kurortny ( Glavny ) Park ( planted mostly with ash, oak, hornbeam, chestnut, maple, poplar, linden, etc., decorative bushes, flowers ), laid in 1849, with springs of mineral water and numerous constructions: the building of the drinking gallery ( 1847 – 1856, architect S. Upton, Moresque style ), the Nikolayevskiye ( the present Verkhniye ) baths ( 1899, architects N. V. Dmitriyev and B. V. Pravzdik ), the Commercial gallery ( 1912, architect Y. F. Shreter, neo-classicism ; the present Electroheliotherapy Institute ), the wooden observation pavilion with colonnade referred to as Oreanda ( 1912 ), four pavilions above drinking well-rooms ( 1912 – 1913, architect N. N. Semyonov, neo-classicism ), etc.

In 1847, Birkenhead's first docks and its municipal park, the first in Britain and the inspiration for New York's Central Park, were opened, and the town expanded rapidly.

On May 10, 1847, the 6. 8 acre ( 2. 8 ha ) Madison Square Park opened to the public.

The route from Staines was authorised in 1847 and was opened by the Windsor, Staines and South Western Railway as far as Datchet, on the opposite side of Home Park from the town of Windsor, on 22 August 1848.

Other historical buildings include several thatched cottages, Park Farm, a timber-framed house in Stanton Road which is dated 1683, the Old School in Leicester Road which was built in 1819, and the Stanley Burrough's Almshouses in Cooke's Lane, erected in 1847.