* 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 ).

Irish prisoners were again sent to Bermuda in the 19th century, including participants in the ill-fated Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848 and Nationalist journalist and politician John Mitchel.

Physical force Irish republicanism as an ideology had a long history, from the United Irishmen of the 1798 and 1803 rebellions, to the Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848 and the 1867 rebellion by the Irish Republican Brotherhood.

* July 20 – Fanny Parnell, Irish poet and founder of the Ladies ' Land League ( b. 1848 )

The Curvilinear Range was completed in 1848 by Richard Turner, an Irish iron-founder and pioneer in the constructional use of wrought iron ; it was extended in the late 1860s.

In Canada, the typhus epidemic of 1847 killed more than 20 000 people died from 1847 to 1848, mainly Irish immigrants in fever sheds and other forms of quarantine, who had contracted the disease aboard coffin ships.

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.

His support for and his involvement in the Irish Confederation and Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848 resulted in a warrant for his arrest.

The role played by some of its key figures in the paper in the ill-fated Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848 cemented the paper's reputation as the voice of Irish radicalism.

The declaration saw the wars and revolts of 1594 – 1603, 1641 – 50, 1689 – 91, 1798, 1803, 1848, 1867 and 1916 as a continuing attempt at gaining Irish self-government, with or without links to the crown.

The majority of the Irish leaders in the rebellions of 1798, 1803, 1848, 1867 and 1916 were imprisoned there.

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.

One was a radical movement, known as Irish Republicanism, which advocated use of force to found a secular, egalitarian Irish Republic, advocated by groups such as the Young Irelanders, some of whom launched a rebellion in 1848.

One of the major transatlantic Irish ports, Cobh was the departure point for 2. 5 million of the six million Irish people who emigrated to North America between 1848 and 1950.

He was succeeded by his son, the fourteenth Baron, who served as Lord Lieutenant of County Meath, and also sat in the British House of Lords as an Irish Representative Peer from 1836 to 1848.

Grey's first tenure at the Home Office notably saw him deal with relief efforts to the victims of the Irish Potato Famine and trying to subdue the Irish rebellion of 1848.

Establishing themselves first at Sevenhill, in the newly established colony of South Australia in 1848, the Jesuits were the first religious order of priests to enter and establish houses in South Australia, Victoria, Queensland and the Northern Territory-Austrian Jesuits established themselves in the south and north and Irish in the east.

* John Burke ( genealogist ) ( 1787 – 1848 ), Irish genealogist, founder of Burke's Peerage

* William Archer Butler ( 1814 – 1848 ), Irish historian of philosophy

This posturing eventually led to the Young Ireland rebellion of 1848 where a countryside devastated by the Irish Potato Famine failed to rise up and support the rebels.

In 1848 – 1849, he served in Ireland during the Irish Potato Famine, with special duties under the Poor Law Commissioners.

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.

Hansom designed around 200 buildings, including Birmingham Town Hall ; Arundel Cathedral ; Oxford Oratory ; Cathedral of St John the Evangelist, Portsmouth ; St George's Catholic Church in York ; Mount St Mary's Catholic Church, the ' Famine Church ' in Leeds ; St Walburge's Church in Preston ( with the tallest church spire in England ); St Beuno's Jesuit Theologate in North Wales ( 1848 ); St Edward King and Confessor Catholic Church, Clifford ; the Church of the Holy Name of Jesus, Manchester ( 1871 ); The Roman Catholic Plymouth Cathedral ( built 1856 — 1858 ); and St Mary's Priory, Fulham Road ( 1876 ).

The Young Ireland movement culminated in a failed uprising ( see Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848 ), which, influenced by the French Revolution of 1848 and further provoked by government inaction during the Great Famine and the suspension of habeas corpus, which allowed the government to imprison Young Irelanders and other political opponents without trial, was hastily planned and quickly suppressed.

The 1848 rebellion was a failure, launched during the Great Irish Famine, it did not address any of the social and economic questions of the day, and weaken the strength of the parliamentary movement of the recently deceased Daniel O ' Connell.

Starting in the late 1840s, the city saw increased Irish immigration with the Great Irish Famine and German immigration with the Revolutions of 1848.

* Famine Rebellion of 1848

* The Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848, also called The Famine Rebellion of 1848

Around 40, 000 Irish convicts were transported to Australia between 1791 and 1867, many for political activity, including those who had participated in the Irish Rebellion of 1798, the 1803 Rising of Robert Emmet and the Young Ireland skirmishes in 1848 in the midst of the Great Famine.

Over four thousand young female orphans from Irish workhouses were shipped to the Australian colonies at the time of the Great Famine ( 1848 – 50 ) to meet a demand for domestic servants.