* 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 ).

Waldemar Rosenberger, (, Vladimir Karlovich Rozenberger, 1848 – 1918 ) from Saint Petersburg, Russia, became director of the Volapük Academy in 1892.

* Vladimir, Metropolitan of Moscow ( 1848 – 1918 ), Metropolitan from 1898 to 1912

Vladimir Vasilievich Stasov ( often seen as Stassov ; ; 14 January < small >< nowiki > 2 January </ small > 1824, Saint Petersburg – 23 October 1906, Saint Petersburg ), son of Russian architect Vasily Petrovich Stasov ( 1769 – 1848 ), was probably the most respected Russian critic during his lifetime.

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

In two papers from 1848 and 1850, the Russian mathematician Pafnuty L ' vovich Chebyshev attempted to prove the asymptotic law of distribution of prime numbers.

The first modern oil well was drilled in 1848 by Russian engineer F. N.

It was placed under Russian administration between 1828 and the Crimean War, with an interlude during the Bucharest-centred 1848 Wallachian revolution, and an Austrian garrison took possession after the Russian departure ( remaining in the city until March 1857 ).

In 1848, the northwestern part, annexed in 1775 by the Habsburg Empire, Bukovina, had a population of 377, 571 ; in 1856, the eastern half of Moldavia, Bessarabia, annexed in 1812 by the Russian Empire, had a population of 990, 274, while the population of Moldavia proper ( the western half ), in 1859, was 1, 463, 927.

Bakunin published his Appeal to the Slavs in the fall of 1848, in which he proposed that Slav revolutionaries unite with Hungarian, Italian and German revolutionaries to overthrow the three major European autocracies, the Russian Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the Kingdom of Prussia.

On Russian maps, the short narrowest section of the strait ( south of the mouth of the Amur ) is called Nevelskoy Strait, after Admiral Gennady Nevelskoy, who explored the area in 1848 ; the body of water north of there, into which the Amur River flows, is the Amur Liman ; and the name of " Strait of Tartary " is reserved for the largest section of the body of water, south of Nevelskoy Strait.

In 1848 Nevelskoy led the expedition in the Russian Far East, exploring the area of the Sakhalin and the outlet of the Amur River.

The existing tricolour was created during the Spring of Nations in 1848, when a group of students from Ljubljana took the colours from the Carniolan coat of arms, arranging them in such a way that it resembled the Russian national flag.

However, Peter Doroshin, a Russian engineer, had identified gold prospects as far back as 1848 when the territory was still part of Russian America.

In 1848, P. von Köppen counted 17, 800 Izhorians, and by 1926 there were 26, 137 Izhorians in the Russian SFSR.

Besides the well-known overtures to the operas ( especially the brilliantly energetic overture to Ruslan ), his major orchestral works include the symphonic poem Kamarinskaya ( 1848 ), based on Russian folk tunes, and two Spanish works, A Night in Madrid ( 1848, 1851 ) and Jota Aragonesa ( 1845 ).

Kuropatkin was born in 1848 in what is now Pskov, in the Russian Empire.

After the Russian revolution of 1905, Leon Trotsky argued that unlike the French revolution of 1789 and the European Revolutions of 1848 against absolutism, the capitalist class would never organise a revolution in Russia to overthrow absolutism, and that this task fell to the working class who, liberating the peasantry from their feudal yoke, would then immediately pass on to the socialist tasks and seek a " permanent revolution " to achieve international socialism.

In the failed Hungarian Revolution of 1848, the Magyars came close to regaining independence, and were defeated by the Austrian Empire only with the aid of the Russian Empire.

In 1855, after the Wallachian revolution was defeated and most of its leaders went into exile, he noted that the lighter toll Russian intervention had in Moldavia contributed to the preservation of literature ; alongside similar statements made by Vasile Alecsandri, this allowed Ibrăileanu to conclude that, after 1848, Moldavia played a bigger part in shaping the cultural landscape of Romania.

His book Judentum und Modernität: Essays zur Rolle der Juden in der deutschen und österreichischen Kultur, 1848 – 1938 was written in German and has been translated into Russian.

* Alexander Ivanovich Galich ( 1783 – 1848 ), Russian philosopher and Latin scholar

However little success the Third Section ’ s modest propaganda efforts met in foreign presses, it had even less success domestically: rather than print pro-Nicholas propaganda of their own to improve Russians ’ opinions of the Tsar, the Third Section resorted to pushing even broader censorship of Russian periodicals, threatening in 1848 to punish publishers not only for running seditious articles but even if the publication ’ s “ tone and tendency ” was not positive enough.

During the series of European revolutions of 1848, the Third Section forbade any Russian periodical from printing any article of news regarding a European nation suffering from revolution.

Vissarion Belinsky ( 1811 – 1848 ) was a Russian literary critic.