* 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 ).

In later years Tieck carried on a varied literary activity as critic ( Dramaturgische Blätter, 2 vols., 1825 – 1826 ; Kritische Schriften, 2 vols., 1848 ); he also edited the translation of Shakespeare by August Wilhelm Schlegel, who was assisted by Tieck's daughter Dorothea ( 1790 – 1841 ) and by Wolf Heinrich, Graf von Baudissin ( 1789 – 1878 ); Shakespeares Vorschule ( 2 vols., 1823 – 1829 ); the works of Heinrich von Kleist ( 1826 ) and of Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz ( 1828 ).

Reinhold Sadler ( January 10, 1848 – January 30, 1906 ) was an American politician.

Sadler was born on January 10, 1848 in Czarnikau, Posen Province, Prussia.

* Walter Bulkeley Barrington, 9th Viscount Barrington ( 1848 – 1933 )

The hamlet is named for the nearby Lake Louise, which in turn was named after the Princess Louise Caroline Alberta ( 1848 – 1939 ), the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria, and the wife of John Campbell, the 9th Duke of Argyll, who was the Governor General of Canada from 1878 to 1883.

* Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll ( 1848 – 1939 ), wife of the 9th Duke

The first clinical description of immunity which arose from a specific disease causing organism is probably Kitab fi al-jadari wa-al-hasbah ( A Treatise on Smallpox and Measles, translated 1848 ) written by the Islamic physician Al-Razi in the 9th century.

* 9th ( 1843 – 1848 )

From 1848 until the construction of the Central Freeway in the 1950s, 9th Street ( formerly known as Johnston Street ) was the official ( and generally recognized ) boundary between SoMa and the Mission District.

* Henry Stapleton, 9th Baron Beaumont ( 1848 – 1892 )

Taaffe was the second son of Louis Patrick John Graf von Taaffe, 9th Viscount Taaffe ( 1791 – 1855 ), a minister of justice in 1848 and president of the Austrian court of appeal.

Zbruch is the namesake of the Zbruch idol, a sculpture of a Slavic deity ( 9th century ) in the form of a column with a head with four faces, discovered in 1848 by the river.

( Paris, 1848 – 59 ), four quarto volumes of illustrated dissertations on gold and silver church-plate, enamelled ware, carved ivories, tapestries, bas-reliefs, and paintings belonging to the Carolingian and Romanesque periods ( 9th to 12th century ).

In due course the Governor-General received the Koh-i-Noor from Login, who had been appointed Governor of the Citadel, the Royal Fort at Lahore, with the Royal Treasury, which Login valued at almost £ 1, 000, 000 (£ as of ), excluding the Koh-i-Noor, on 6 April 1848, under a receipt dated 7 December 1849, in the presence of the members of the Board of Administration — the local resident H. M. Lawrence, C. C.

However, in 1848 the Earl of Elgin, the then Governor General, appointed a Cabinet nominated by the majority party of the Legislative Assembly, the Baldwin-Lafontaine coalition that had won elections in January.

The colony of New Brunswick soon followed on May 1848 when Lieutenant Governor Edmund Walker Head brought in a more balanced representation of Members of the Legislative Assembly to the Executive Council and ceded more powers to that body.

Sugarcane, produced by slave labor, drove the islands ' economy during the 18th and early 19th centuries, until the abolition of slavery by Governor Peter von Scholten on July 3, 1848.

** Edwin Warfield, Governor of Maryland ( b. 1848 )

Following the resignation of the Chancellor Prince Metternich during the Revolutions of 1848, the young Archduke, who it was widely expected would soon succeed his uncle on the throne, was appointed Governor of Bohemia on 6 April, but never took up the post.

Ministerial responsibility was granted by Governor General Lord Elgin in 1848, first to Nova Scotia and then to Canada.

He also ran as an independent candidate for Governor of Kentucky in 1848, but after talking with the Democratic candidate, Lazarus W. Powell, who had replaced Linn Boyd on the ticket, Johnson decided to drop out and back Powell.

Morrow County was organized in 1848 from parts of four neighboring counties and named for Jeremiah Morrow, Governor of Ohio from 1822 to 1826.

* Wyatt Earp ( 1848 – 1929 ), Deputy U. S. Marshal ( appointed to his brother Virgil Earp's place by the Arizona Territorial Governor )

* Daniel Haines ( 1801 – 1877 ) 14th Governor of New Jersey, from 1843 to 1845, and from 1848 to 1851.

The bill was passed and signed into law by Governor Nelson Dewey on August 8, 1848.

At the general election which followed, the Governor General was sustained by a narrow majority, but in 1848 the Reformers were again returned to power, and he and Lafontaine formed their second administration on March 11 under Lord Elgin and carried numerous important reforms, including the freeing from sectarian control of the University of Toronto and the introduction into Upper Canada of an important municipal system.

During 1848, Lord Dalhousie the then Governor general of British India was appraised that the depressed condition of the finances in Tranavcore was owing to mal-administration and practices of treasury by the ruling elite.

He received an honorable discharge on July 20, 1848, and returned to Mississippi, serving as Governor of Mississippi in 1850 and 1851.

In 1848, the Province of Canada ( which had been formed out of Upper and Lower Canada in 1841 upon the recommendation of Lord Durham ) received responsible government, with Lord Elgin being the first Governor General of the Province of Canada to accept the Legislative Assembly's advice as to whom to appoint to the Executive Council and hence the cabinet, instead of appointing the cabinet himself.

During Grey's first tenure as Governor of New Zealand, he was created a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath ( 1848 ).

* Albert Gallatin Brown, Mississippi Governor ( 1844 – 1848 )

In 1844 he was promoted to Major ( wounded: bullet in the right wrist during action at Macta, 1845 ) and then to Lieutenant Colonel in 1848 after 9 years service in Algeria and Morocco, including several years heading France's Bureau Arabe ( military intelligence ) as Governor of Tlemcen.

In 1848, Governor George Grey received the first honour granted to a New Zealand resident, becoming a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath.

; Alberta: Named after Princess Louise Caroline Alberta ( 1848 – 1939 ), the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria and wife of the Governor General of Canada in the late 19th century.

In 1848 Fish ran and was elected Governor of New York having served only one term.

Fish was then in November 1847 elected to fill the vacancy, and was Lieutenant Governor in 1848.