* 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 – 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 ).

* 1848 – Andrew Inglis Clark, Tasmanian politician ( d. 1907 )

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.

Queen Victoria chose British Columbia to distinguish what was the British sector of the Columbia District from that of the United States (" American Columbia " or " Southern Columbia "), which became the Oregon Territory in 1848 as a result of the treaty.

Other claimants included the United States, whose American Guano Mining Company claimed it under the Guano Islands Act of 1856 ; Mexico also claimed Clipperton due to activities undertaken there as early as 1848 – 1849.

In 1848, Douglass was the only African American to attend the first women's rights convention, the Seneca Falls Convention.

* 1848 – Belle Starr, American outlaw ( d. 1889 )

* 1848 – Louis Comfort Tiffany, American glass artist ( d. 1933 )

Stephen Pearl AndrewsFor American anarchist historian Eunice Minette Schuster " It is apparent ... that Proudhonian Anarchism was to be found in the United States at least as early as 1848 and that it was not conscious of its affinity to the Individualist Anarchism of Josiah Warren and Stephen Pearl Andrews ... William B. Greene presented this Proudhonian Mutualism in its purest and most systematic form .".

For American anarchist historian Eunice Minette Schuster " It is apparent ... that Proudhonian Anarchism was to be found in the United States at least as early as 1848 and that it was not conscious of its affinity to the Individualist Anarchism of Josiah Warren and Stephen Pearl Andrews ... William B. Greene presented this Proudhonian Mutualism in its purest and most systematic form .".

On February 21, 1848, the House of Representatives was discussing the matter of honoring US Army officers who served in the Mexican – American War.

* American President: John Quincy Adams ( 1767 – 1848 ) at the Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia

* 1767 – John Quincy Adams, American politician, 6th President of the United States ( d. 1848 )

For American anarchist historian Eunice Minette Schuster " It is apparent ... that Proudhonian Anarchism was to be found in the United States at least as early as 1848 and that it was not conscious of its affinity to the Individualist Anarchism of Josiah Warren and Stephen Pearl Andrews ... William B. Greene presented this Proudhonian Mutualism in its purest and most systematic form .".

In an attempt to reverse the decline, from 1848 to the early 1870s Macau engaged in the infamous trade of coolies ( slave labourers ) as a transit port, shipping locals from southern China to Cuba, Peru, and other South American ports to work on plantations or in mines.

* 1848 – Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Irish-born American sculptor ( d. 1907 )

In 1848, the General Conference stated, “ when the Church has collected ... a great population born within bosom, she cannot fulfill her high mission unless she takes measure to prevent this population from being withdrawn from under her care in the period of its youth .” The first two American bishops of the Methodist Church, Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury, opened a preparatory school in Abingdon, Maryland in 1787.

* 1848 – William Thompson, American archer ( d. 1918 )

* 1848 – Nathanael Herreshoff, American naval architect ( d. 1938 )

* 1848 – John Jacob Astor, American businessman ( b. 1763 )

An American dictionary of the English language 1848 edition online

Following the Mexican-American War, from 1846 – 1848 and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, Mexico ceded its mostly unsettled northern holdings, today known as the American Southwest and California, to the United States of America.

* 1848 – Boston Custer, American general ( d. 1876 )

* 1786 – Stevenson Archer, American Congressman ( d. 1848 )

* Orion P. Howe ( 1848 – 1930 ), Union drummer boy in American Civil War, and one of the youngest recipients of the U. S. Medal of Honor