* Meir Atlas ( 1848 – 1926 ), Rabbi of Shavel in Lithuania and one of the founders of the Telz Yeshiva

* Emperor Franz Joseph ( 1848 – 1916 ) http :// www. youtube. com / watch? v = jecUwMPk8pE & feature = related

* 1848 – José Gautier Benítez, Puerto Rican poet ( d. 1880 )

* 1848 – The United States annexes New Mexico.

* 1765 – Petros Mavromichalis, Greek general and politician, Prime Minister of Greece ( d. 1848 )

* 1848 – Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Indian social reformer ( d. 1919 )

* 1848 – Oregon Territory is organized by act of Congress.

* 1848 – Camila O ' Gorman and Ladislao Gutierrez are executed on the orders of Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas.

* 1848 – California Gold Rush: the New York Herald breaks the news to the East Coast of the United States of the gold rush in California ( although the rush started in January ).

* 1848 – Gustave Caillebotte, French painter ( d. 1894 )

* Albert I, Prince of Monaco ( 1848 – 1922 )

* 1788 – Wilhelmine Reichard, German balloonist ( d. 1848 )

* 1848 – Andrew Onderdonk, American construction contractor ( d. 1905 )

* 1848 – American victory at the battle of Cerro Gordo opens the way for invasion of Mexico.

The concept of allotropy was originally proposed in 1841 by the Swedish scientist Baron Jöns Jakob Berzelius ( 1779 – 1848 ).

He was the third of the four children of farmer Hugh Fleming ( 1816 – 1888 ) from his second marriage to Grace Stirling Morton ( 1848 – 1928 ), the daughter of a neighbouring farmer.

Four more children followed: Charlotte, ( 1816 – 1855 ), Patrick Branwell ( 1817 – 1848 ), Emily, ( 1818 – 1848 ) and Anne ( 1820 – 1849 ).

Andrew Inglis Clark ( 24 February 1848 – 14 November 1907 ) was an Australian barrister, politician, electoral reformer and jurist.

* St. Andrew's parish church, Ogbourne St Andrew, Wiltshire: restoration, 1847 – 49 and vicarage, 1848

Among the towns located in Andrew County are Amazonia, once on the Missouri River, now inland, laid out in 1857 near the site of Nodaway City, an early river port ; Fillmore, established in 1845 ; Whitesville, established in 1848 ; Rochester, established in 1848 ; Bolckow, established in 1868 ; Rosendale, established in 1869 ; Rea, established in 1877 ; Helena, established in 1878 ; and Cosby, established in 1882.

Settled by Mexican gold miners in 1848 and named after the Catholic parish St. Andrew, the town has been a noted mining camp since early days.

One example of rising from this job to great heights in America was young Andrew Carnegie, who at age 13 worked as a bobbin boy in 1848.

Born in Burlington, Vermont, the only child of Andrew Issaclar Goodhue ( 1848 – 1923 ), a mechanical engineer and steamboat inspector, and Lemira Barrett Goodhue ( 1849 – 1929 ), Grace graduated from the University of Vermont in 1902, where she was a founding member of the Beta chapter of Pi Beta Phi sorority.

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* Andrew Wilson ( artist ) ( 1780 – 1848 ), Scottish landscape-painter

Packer won re-election in 1848 and then successfully ran for the Pennsylvania State Senate in 1849, defeating Andrew Gregg Curtin.

He designed the figurehead for a fifth original frigate, ( Hercules, 1796, carved by John Skillin, whereabouts unknown, replaced by a figurehead of Andrew Jackson 1848 ), and may have designed that for the sixth, ( George Washington, 1800, carved by Rush's former apprentice Daniel N. Train, whereabouts unknown ).

* John Andrew Rea ( 1848 – 1941 ), American journalist and politician

Andrew married Eliza Jane Hersey of Hingham on Christmas evening, 1848.

The present-day town area was first settled by Europeans in 1848, when Andrew Risby, his wife Louisa and their five young children arrived to settle and develop farmland from, essentially, a thickly forested wilderness.

Andrew Onderdonk ( 30 August 1848 – 21 June 1905 ) was a construction contractor who worked on several major projects including the San Francisco seawall in California and the Canadian Pacific Railway in British Columbia.

On the death of Governor Andrew Clarke in February 1847, Irwin took office as acting Governor until the arrival of the new governor, Charles Fitzgerald, in August 1848.

The famous names in the ornithology of the Indian subcontinent during this era include Andrew Leith Adams ( 1827 – 1882 ), Edward Blyth ( 1810 – 1873 ), Edward Arthur Butler ( 1843 – 1916 ), Douglas Dewar ( 1875 – 1957 ), N. F. Frome ( 1899 – 1982 ), Hugh Whistler ( 1889 – 1943 ), H. H. Godwin-Austen ( 1834 – 1923 ), Col. W. H. Sykes ( 1790 – 1872 ), C. M. Inglis ( 1870 – 1954 ), Frank Ludlow ( 1885 – 1972 ), E. C. Stuart Baker ( 1864 – 1944 ), Henry Edwin Barnes ( 1848 – 1896 ), F. N. Betts ( 1906 – 1973 ), H. R. Baker, W. E. Brooks ( 1828 – 1899 ), Margaret Cockburn ( 1829 – 1928 ), James A. Murray, E. W. Oates ( 1845 – 1911 ), Ferdinand Stoliczka ( 1838 – 1874 ), Valentine Ball ( 1843 – 1894 ), W. T. Blanford ( 1832 – 1905 ), J. K. Stanford ( 1892 – 1971 ), Charles Swinhoe ( 1836 – 1923 ), Robert Swinhoe ( 1836 – 1877 ), C. H. T. Marshall ( 1841 – 1927 ), G. F. L. Marshall ( 1843 – 1934 ), R. S. P. Bates, James Franklin ( 1783 – 1834 ), Satya Churn Law, Arthur Edward Osmaston ( 1885 – 1961 ), Bertram Beresford Osmaston ( 1868 – 1961 ), Wardlaw Ramsay ( 1852 – 1921 ) and Samuel Tickell ( 1811 – 1875 ).

George Mayfield ( 1779 – 1848 ) was an interpreter and spy for General Andrew Jackson during the Creek War of 1813 – 1814.

* Andrew Stuart Johnson ( 1848 – 1926 ), farmer, lumber merchant, mining company owner and political figure in Quebec

The first of these was South Australian Private Act No. 1 of 1848, granted to Andrew John Murray of Adelaide, S. A. for " An improved windlass ", on the 20th June 1848, for a period of 10 years.

Situated on and designed between 1848 – 1850 by the architectural theorist Andrew Jackson Downing, a prominent advocate of the Gothic revival style, the gardens consist of gravel and brick pathways with borders of boxwoods, and artificial fish, duck and stone lined reflection ponds.

Andrew was educated in the University of Alabama, from which he graduated in 1848.

During the Second Anglo-Sikh War, in 1848 to 1849 in the Punjab, Inglis was in command at the Siege of Multan and at the Battle of Gujrat.

* Clark, Timothy J., Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution, ( Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999 ); ( Originally published 1973.

Stephen Clark Foster became the first mayor of Los Angeles under United States military rule in 1848.

Clark then taught chemistry at Williston Seminary from 1848 to 1850.

* Erebus and Terror served as exploration vessels in the expeditions of James Clark Ross to the Antarctic in 1840 – 1843, and of John Franklin to the Arctic in 1845 – 1848.

In late 1848, James Clark Ross, commanding two ships, landed at Port Leopold on the northeast coast to winter.

* George Daniel Clark ( 1848 – 1933 ), Australian politician

In March 1848, Tualatin Academy was established from the orphanage with Clark donating to the school.

Clark was born in Chelsea, London, the eldest son of the Revd George Clark ( 1777 – 1848 ), chaplain to the Royal Military Asylum, Chelsea, and Clara, née Dicey.

Two years later he joined the Franklin search expedition ( 1848 – 1849 ) under James Clark Ross as first lieutenant of Enterprise.

After his wife died young, Clark moved to California to seek his fortune, probably about 1848 at the time of the California Gold Rush.

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He had some involvement in organizing James Clark Ross's 1848 – 1849 expedition to search for Sir John Franklin, and continued working in the Mackenzie District for the Hudson's Bay Company until 1860.