* 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 – 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 ).

Her father was Stephen Cattley Tennant ( 1800 – 1848 ), a merchant, and her mother, Juana Camila Dalcour ( 1818 – 1855 ).

Any hope for change was squashed with the death of the political leader championing for Ireland, Daniel O ’ Connell in 1847 and the failed rising of the Young Irelanders in 1848.

* John O ' Donovan ( ed ) ( 1848 – 1851 ), Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters Vol 1

O ' Brien County was named for William Smith O ' Brien, a leader for Irish independence in 1848, and is the only O ' Brien County in the United States.

Unfortunately for O ' Connor, in 1848 a Select Committee was appointed by Parliament to investigate the financial viability of the scheme, and it was ordered that it be shut down.

I. Vosburgh ; 1845, George Sipperly ; 1846, S. Coons ; 1847, Calvin Sliter ; 1848 – 1850, A. H. Fox ; 1851, C. Sliter ; 1852 – 1853, A. Mott ; 1854 – 1855, N. Upham ; 1856 – 1857, O. Horton ; 1858 – 1860, P. H. Thomas ; 1861, W. Stevens ; 1862 – 1865, Joel B. Peck ; 1866 – 1867, B.

* William Smith O ' Brien and the Young Ireland Rebellion of 1848, Robert Sloan, Four Courts Press 2000

* William Smith O ' Brien and the Young Ireland Rebellion of 1848, Robert Sloan, Four Courts Press 2000

* William Smith O ' Brien and the Young Ireland Rebellion of 1848, Robert Sloan, Four Courts Press 2000

The 1848 Young Ireland rebellion under Thomas Davis, though occurring at the start of the Famine, was hardly impacted upon by the Famine, as much as by the clash between the " constitutional " nationalism and Catholicism of O ' Connell and the pluralist republicanism of Davis.

* Birthplace of T. P. O ' Connor ( 1848 – 1929 ), journalist and Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons.

* William Smith O ' Brien, 1848

The new constabulary first demonstrated its efficiency against civil agitation and Irish separatism during Daniel O ' Connell's 1843 “ monster meetings ” to urge repeal of the Act of Parliamentary Union, and the Young Ireland campaign led by William Smith O ' Brien in 1848, although it failed to contain violence at the so-called " Battle of Dolly's Brae " in 1849 ( which provoked a Party Processions Act to regulate sectarian demonstrations ).

McCormack gave an account of his background that has been incorporated into later biographies: that he was born to Joseph H. McCormack, a hod carrier, and Ellen ( née O ' Brien ) McCormack, that his parents were both the children of Irish immigrants who had arrived during the Irish potato famine in 1848, and that there were 12 children, of whom three survived to adulthood.

Ida Totto's father, George Victor Totto, for whom Georgia O ' Keeffe was named, was a Hungarian count who came to America in 1848.

* O Jesus, Jesus, dearest Lord ( n. 754, Hymn Book ), written in 1848

After the collapse of the 1848 rebellion James Stephens and John O ' Mahony went to Europe to avoid arrest.

*, aka " O. L. Kummer " ( 1848 – 1912 ), German tram manufacturer ( Dresden )

See also E. O. S., Hungary and its Revolutions, with a Memoir of Louis Kossuth ( Bohn, 1854 ); Horvath, 25 Jahre aus der Geschichte Ungarns, 1823 – 1848 ( Leipzig, 1867 ) H Maurice, Revolutions of 1848 – 1849.

* John O ' Donovan ( ed ) ( 1848 – 1851 ), Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters Vol 1

Until 1849, the Catholic Church was not allowed to purchase any land, or establish any parishes in the Eastern Townships due to English Protestant laws and control At the initiative of Father Bernard O ' Reilley, an Association des Townships was set up in 1848 to promote settlement in the area.

Gorman was a veteran of the Mexican-American War of 1848 and was at Fort Tejon as a civilian teamster and herder in 1854 while it was being built.

Michael Doheny, Richard O ’ Gorman, and James Huston, ( who had participated in the failed Irish Revolt of 1848 ) and Michael Phelan, who had not, all believed in training soldiers within the New York State Militia to free Ireland.

* 1848 – Slaves are freed in the Danish West Indies ( now U. S. Virgin Islands ) by Peter von Scholten in the culmination of a year-long plot by enslaved Africans.

As late as 1848 – 49, as many as 40, 000 out of 150, 000 Hawaiians are estimated to have died of measles, whooping cough and influenza.

In an 1848 accident, a large iron rod was driven through Gage's head, and his personality apparently changed as a result, although descriptions of these psychological changes are usually exaggerated.

The idea of a unified spacetime is stated by Edgar Allan Poe in his essay on cosmology titled Eureka ( 1848 ) that " Space and duration are one.

By 1848, Edward Hay Drummond Hay, the President of the British Virgin Islands, reported that: " there are now no properties in the Virgin Islands whose holders are not embarrassed for want of capital or credit sufficient to enable them to carry on the simplest method of cultivation effectively.

Oberon was initially referred to as " the second satellite of Uranus ", and in 1848 was given the designation by William Lassell, although he sometimes used William Herschel's numbering ( where Titania and Oberon are II and IV ).

There are many theories in circulation regarding the origins of the colour scheme utilized in the 1848 flag.

Though hurricanes are infrequent on this part of Florida's coast, they have had a large impact on the islands, with the Hurricane of 1848 forming John's Pass between Madeira Beach and Treasure Island, a hurricane in 1921 cleaving Hog Island into Honeymoon and Caladesi Islands and creating Hurricane Pass, and 1985's Hurricane Elena sealing Dunedin Pass to join Caladesi with Clearwater Beach.

In 1848 during events of Spring of Nations when Polish issue was raised Arndt declared that " tribes " of Slavs and Wends " have never done or been able to do anything lasting with respect to state, science, or art " and concluded, " At the outset I assert with world history that pronounces judgment: the Poles and the whole Slavonic tribe are inferior to Germans.

* 1848 First settlers in the county are Samuel Eli Holland, Logan Vandeveer, Peter Kerr, William Harrison Magill, Noah Smithwick, Captain Jesse B. Burnham, R. H. Hall, Adam Rankin " Stovepipe " Johnson and Captain Christian Dorbandt.

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.

Strang moved his followers to Beaver Island in 1848, and they are known as Strangites.

Founded in 1848, University of Wisconsin – Madison is the largest university in the state, and the flagship of the UW System, with a total enrollment of over 41, 000 students, of whom approximately 30, 000 are undergraduates.

Many persons are also of Central American and other Latino descent, perhaps those of Californio or Spanish-American descent whose ancestors were former Mexican citizens until the US annexed California in 1848.

The Village of Cassadaga was settled in 1848 at the headwaters of the technically navigable Cassadaga Creek, though the upper few miles of it are not practically so today due to numerous shallows and beaver activity along its course.

This event and the similar gathering at Wartburg during the Revolutions of 1848 are considered seminal moments in the movement for German unification.

To put that in perspective are a biography by Prosper Mérimée, Histoire de Don Pedro I, roi de Castille ( 1848 ) and a modern history setting Peter in the social and economic context of his time by Clara Estow ( Pedro the Cruel of Castile ( 1350 – 1369 ), 1995 ).

The lyrics were written by Johann Voldemar Jannsen and are set to a melody composed in 1848 by Fredrik ( Friedrich ) Pacius which is also that of the national anthem of Finland: Maamme (" Vårt Land " in Swedish ).

Unfortunately no copy of these 1848 rules exists today, but they are thought to have included laws governing throw-ins, goal-kicks, halfway line markings, re-starts, holding and pushing ( which were outlawed ) and offside.

The Town ( 2 vols., 1848 ) and Men, Women and Books ( 2 vols., 1847 ) are partly made up from former material.

Among other productions are Napoleon Awakening to Immortality ( Musée d ' Orsay, Paris ), the statue of the mathematician Gaspard Monge ( 1848 ), Jeanne d ' Arc, in the gardens of the Luxembourg ( 1852 ), a Calvary in bronze for the high altar of St Vincent de Paul ( 1855 ), as well as Hebe and the Eagle of Jupiter ( Musée des Beaux Arts, Dijon ), Love Triumphant and Christ on the Cross, all of which appeared at the Paris Salon of 1857 after his death.

The R498 links Thurles to Nenagh. Thurles railway station opened on 13 March 1848. and is one the best served railways stations in the country, On average, there are more than 16 trains from Cork to Dublin that serve Thurles every day.