* 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 ).

* 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 ).

* Gustave Caillebotte ( who, younger than the others, joined forces with them in the mid 1870s ) ( 1848 – 1894 )

File: Gustave Caillebotte-La Place de l ' Europe, temps de pluie. jpg | Gustave Caillebotte, ( 1848 – 1894 ), Paris Street, Rainy Day, 1877.

Gustave Caillebotte (; 19 August 1848 – 21 February 1894 ) was a French painter, member and patron of the group of artists known as Impressionists, though he painted in a much more realistic manner than many other artists in the group.

Gustave Caillebotte was born on 19 August 1848 to an upper-class Parisian family living in the rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis.

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

* 1848 in art-Birth of Paul Gauguin, Gustave Caillebotte, Death of Thomas Cole

The Impressionist and patron of other artists Gustave Caillebotte ( 1848 – 1894 ) painted the Boulevard in many different lights as the days and seasons changed.

Universal male suffrage was definitely established in France in March 1848 in the wake of the French Revolution of 1848.

* 1848 – Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer ( d. 1934 )

* 1848 – Arthur Giry, French historian ( d. 1899 )

* 1848 – Louis-François, Baron Lejeune, French general and painter ( b. 1775 )

* 1848 – The French Revolution of 1848, which would lead to the establishment of the French Second Republic, begins.

* 1848 – Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author ( d. 1907 )

* French Revolution of 1848

He was elected to the national legislative assembly after the French Revolution of 1848.

* 1848 – Octave Mirbeau, French writer ( d. 1917 )

Napoleon III, nephew of Napoleon I, returned from exile in the United Kingdom in 1848 to be elected to the French parliament, and then as " Prince President " in a coup d ' état elected himself Emperor, a move approved later by a large majority of the French electorate.

* 1848 – François-René de Chateaubriand, French writer ( b. 1768 )

From December 1851 to March 1852 Marx wrote The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, a work on the French Revolution of 1848, in which he expanded upon his concepts of historical materialism, class struggle and the dictatorship of the proletariat, advancing the argument that victorious proletariat has to smash the bourgeois state.

After the creation of the French Second Republic in 1848, the new government allocated two million francs for repair work and ordered the completion of the Galerie d ' Apollon, the Salon Carré, and the Grande Galérie.

* 1907 – Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author ( b. 1848 )

These reforms included guarantees to ensure the Ottoman subjects perfect security for their lives, honour, and property ; the introduction of the first Ottoman paper banknotes ( 1840 ) and opening of the first post offices ( 1840 ); the reorganization of the finance system according to the French model ( 1840 ); the reorganization of the Civil and Criminal Code according to the French model ( 1840 ); the establishment of the Meclis-i Maarif-i Umumiye ( 1841 ) which was the prototype of the First Ottoman Parliament ( 1876 ); the reorganization of the army and a regular method of recruiting, levying the army, and fixing the duration of military service ( 1843 – 44 ); the adoption of an Ottoman national anthem and Ottoman national flag ( 1844 ); the first nationwide Ottoman census in 1844 ( only male citizens were counted ); the first national identity cards ( officially named the Mecidiye identity papers, or informally kafa kağıdı ( head paper ) documents, 1844 ); the institution of a Council of Public Instruction ( 1845 ) and the Ministry of Education ( Mekatib-i Umumiye Nezareti, 1847, which later became the Maarif Nezareti, 1857 ); the abolition of slavery and slave trade ( 1847 ); the establishment of the first modern universities ( darülfünun, 1848 ), academies ( 1848 ) and teacher schools ( darülmuallimin, 1848 ); establishment of the Ministry of Healthcare ( Tıbbiye Nezareti, 1850 ); the Commerce and Trade Code ( 1850 ); establishment of the Academy of Sciences ( Encümen-i Daniş, 1851 ); establishment of the Şirket-i Hayriye which operated the first steam-powered commuter ferries ( 1851 ); the first European style courts ( Meclis-i Ahkam-ı Adliye, 1853 ) and supreme judiciary council ( Meclis-i Ali-yi Tanzimat, 1853 ); establishment of the modern Municipality of Istanbul ( Şehremaneti, 1854 ) and the City Planning Council ( İntizam-ı Şehir Komisyonu, 1855 ); the abolition of the capitation ( Jizya ) tax on non-Muslims, with a regular method of establishing and collecting taxes ( 1856 ); non-Muslims were allowed to become soldiers ( 1856 ); various provisions for the better administration of the public service and advancement of commerce ; the establishment of the first telegraph networks ( 1847 – 1855 ) and railroads ( 1856 ); the replacement of guilds with factories ; the establishment of the Ottoman Central Bank ( originally established as the Bank-ı Osmanî in 1856, and later reorganized as the Bank-ı Osmanî-i Şahane in 1863 ) and the Ottoman Stock Exchange ( Dersaadet Tahvilat Borsası, established in 1866 ); the Land Code ( Arazi Kanunnamesi, 1857 ); permission for private sector publishers and printing firms with the Serbesti-i Kürşad Nizamnamesi ( 1857 ); establishment of the School of Economical and Political Sciences ( Mekteb-i Mülkiye, 1859 ); the Press and Journalism Regulation Code ( Matbuat Nizamnamesi, 1864 ); among others.

* 1817 – Branwell Bronte, English painter and poet ( d. 1848 )

* 1848 – Thomas Herbst German painter ( d. 1915 )

* 1848 – Vasily Surikov, Russian painter ( d. 1916 )

* May 8 – Paul Gauguin, French painter ( b. 1848 )

* April 22 – Henry Lerolle, French painter ( b. 1848 )

As a painter she became famous primarily for two chief works: Ploughing in the Nivernais ( in French: Le labourage nivernais, le sombrage ), which was first exhibited at the Salon of 1848, and is now in the Musée d ’ Orsay in Paris depicts a team of oxen ploughing a field while attended by peasants set against a vast pastoral landscape ; and, The Horse Fair ( in French: Le marché aux chevaux ) ( which was exhibited at the Salon of 1853 ( finished in 1855 ) and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City.

* Raja Ravi Varma ( 1848 – 1906 ), also known as Ravi Varma, Indian painter

* Anna Boch, impressionist painter and art collector ( 1848 – 1936 )

* Alphonse Giroux ( 1775 – 1848 ), a French painter

* François de Caumont ( 1768 – 1848 ), designer and painter

Christen Schiellerup Købke ( 26 May 1810 – 7 February 1848 ), Danish painter, was born in Copenhagen to Peter Berendt Købke, a baker, and his wife Cecilie Margrete.

* Ludwig Hans Fischer ( 1848 – 1915 ), Austrian landscape painter and etcher

* Vasily Surikov ( 1848 – 1916 ), painter

Vasily Ivanovich Surikov ( Васи ́ лий Ива ́ нович Су ́ риков ) ( January 24, 1848 ( Julian calendar: January 12 ) – March 19, 1916 ( Julian calendar: March 6 )) was the foremost Russian painter of large-scale historical subjects.

William Michael Harnett ( August 10, 1848 – October 29, 1892 ) was an Irish-American painter known for his trompe l ' oeil still lifes of ordinary objects.

* Karl Friedrich Lessing ( 1808 – 1880 ), German painter, son of Carl Friedrich Lessing ( 1778 – 1848 ) and great nephew of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ( 1729 – 1781 )

Patrick Branwell Brontë (; 26 June 1817 – 24 September 1848 ) was a painter, and writer and poet, the only son of the Brontë family, and the brother of the writers Charlotte, Emily, and Anne.

* May 26 – Christen Købke, Danish painter ( died 1848 )

He married secondly Rebecca Delvalle ( 1761 – 1848 ) a mineralogist: they had a son Joseph Wilson Lowry and a daughter Delvalle, who married John Varley the landscape painter.

Jules Bastien-Lepage ( November 1, 1848 – December 10, 1884 ), was a French naturalist painter, a style related to the Realist movement.

The work, a battle scene, represented something of a departure for the painter of bonshommes and musketeers though Meissonier had already painted scenes of violence and massacre, such as Remembrance of Civil War, and in 1848 had indeed seen active service as a captain in the National Guard, when he fought on the side of the republican government during the June Days.

* November 11-Helen Thornycroft, English painter ( b. 1848 )