* 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 – 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 ).

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.

This talk intensified as railroad technology advanced and the Oregon Territory and California were added to United States Territory in 1846 and 1848.

The first " decent " map of California and Oregon were drawn by Frémont and his topographers and cartographers in about 1848.

After 1848, the travelers headed to California or Oregon resupplied at the Salt Lake Valley, and then went back over the Salt Lake Cutoff, rejoining the trail near the future Idaho-Utah border at the City of Rocks in Idaho.

It is estimated that about two-thirds of the male population in Oregon went to California in 1848 to cash in on the early gold discoveries.

In 1848, the Salt Lake Cutoff was established by Sam Hensley, and returning members of the Mormon Battalion providing a path north of the Great Salt Lake from Salt Lake City back to the California and Oregon Trails.

Starting in about 1848 the South Alternate of Oregon Trail ( also called the Snake River Cutoff ) was developed as a spur off the main trail.

On August 13, 1848, President James K. Polk signed an act creating the entire region as the Oregon Territory.

The first to hear confirmed information of the Gold Rush were the people in Oregon, the Sandwich Islands ( Hawaii ), and Latin America, who were the first to start flocking to the state in late 1848.

* Albany, Oregon, named in honor of Albany, New York in 1848

Houston supported the Oregon Bill in 1848, which was opposed by many Southerners.

It was the capital of the Oregon Territory from its establishment in 1848 until 1851, and rivaled Portland for early supremacy in the area.

The U. S. portion became the Oregon Territory in 1848 ; it was later subdivided into territories that were eventually admitted as states, the first of these being Oregon itself in 1859.

After the Provisional Government of Oregon set-up land claims in the Oregon Country, the United States annexed much of the Pacific Northwest and established the Oregon Territory in 1848.

The town was established between 1848 and 1849 by Joseph and Ahio S. Watt, two brothers who had immigrated to Oregon over the Oregon Trail.

Lot WhitcombMilwaukie was founded in 1848 as a rival to the upriver Oregon City by Lot Whitcomb, who named it for Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

* August 14, 1848: Oregon Territory was formed from territory ceded by Great Britain and others.

At the same time the great push west along the newly opened Oregon Trail built up from a trickle of settlers in 1841 to a steady stream in 1844 – 1846, and then became a flood as the highly organized Mormon migration exploited the road to the Great Salt Lake discovered by mountain man Jim Bridger in 1847 – 1848.

The settlement of the Oregon boundary dispute with Britain in 1846, the conclusion of the Mexican American War in 1848, and the California Gold Rush in 1849 and other gold and silver strikes rapidly attracted increased emigrant traffic west.

* Ranald MacDonald, a half-Chinook, born in Fort Astoria, Oregon, to Archibald McDonald, a Scottish Hudson's Bay Company fur trader, and Raven, chief Concomly's daughter, was the first Westerner to teach English in Japan, in 1847 – 1848, including educating Einosuke Moriyama, one of the chief interpreters that would later handle the negotiations between Commodore Perry and the Tokugawa Shogunate

The United States gained the territory in 1848 following its victory in the Mexican-American War and the area was eventually incorporated as part of Utah Territory in 1850.

In 1848, a major disturbance occurred in the Territory.

In 2006 Australian historians and scientists authenticated a tiny brass plate ( 15 cm x 2 cm ) marked " LUDWIG LEICHHARDT 1848 ", discovered in around 1900 by an Aboriginal stockman near Sturt Creek, between the Tanami and Great Sandy deserts, just inside Western Australia from the border with the Northern Territory.

*** Territory of Wisconsin, 1836 – 1848

* Hildreth, S. P .: Pioneer History: Being an Account of the First Examinations of the Ohio Valley, and the Early Settlement of the Northwest Territory, H. W. Derby and Co., Cincinnati, Ohio ( 1848 )

*** Territory of Wisconsin, 1836 – 1848

The U. S. portion of the region was organized as Oregon Territory on August 14, 1848, with Washington Territory being formed from it in 1853.

In 1848, the U. S. portion of the Oregon Country was formally organized as the Oregon Territory.

The Territory of Oregon was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from August 14, 1848, until February 14, 1859, when the southwestern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Oregon.

Oregon Territory, as originally organized, in 1848

On August 14, 1848, Congress passed the Act to Establish the Territorial Government of Oregon, which created what was officially the Territory of Oregon.

*** Territory of Oregon, 1848 – 1859

The portion of the Wyoming Territory west of the continental divide and north of the 42nd parallel was originally part of the Oregon Country, which was organized into the Oregon Territory in 1848 ; when Oregon entered the union as a state under its present boundaries in 1859, this land became part of the Washington Territory ( although its eastern part had been granted to the Nebraska Territory in 1854.