* 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 ).

Falling on very hard times as a handloom weaver and with the country in starvation, William Carnegie decided to move with his family to Allegheny, Pennsylvania in the United States in 1848 for the prospect of a better life.

The house was quickly found to be too small, and John and William Smith were commissioned in 1848 to design new offices, cottages and other ancillary buildings.

But the 1848 revolution turned out to be unsuccessful: King Frederick William IV of Prussia refused the imperial crown, the Frankfurt parliament was dissolved, the ruling princes repressed the risings by military force, and the German Confederation was re-established by 1850.

Stephen Pearl AndrewsFor American anarchist historian Eunice Minette Schuster " It is apparent ... that Proudhonian Anarchism was to be found in the United States at least as early as 1848 and that it was not conscious of its affinity to the Individualist Anarchism of Josiah Warren and Stephen Pearl Andrews ... William B. Greene presented this Proudhonian Mutualism in its purest and most systematic form .".

For American anarchist historian Eunice Minette Schuster " It is apparent ... that Proudhonian Anarchism was to be found in the United States at least as early as 1848 and that it was not conscious of its affinity to the Individualist Anarchism of Josiah Warren and Stephen Pearl Andrews ... William B. Greene presented this Proudhonian Mutualism in its purest and most systematic form .".

Close advisors Sen. Lewis Cass, a proponent of popular sovereignty as far back as 1848 as an alternative to the Wilmot Proviso, and Secretary of State William L. Marcy both told Pierce that repeal would create serious political problems.

For American anarchist historian Eunice Minette Schuster " It is apparent ... that Proudhonian Anarchism was to be found in the United States at least as early as 1848 and that it was not conscious of its affinity to the Individualist Anarchism of Josiah Warren and Stephen Pearl Andrews ... William B. Greene presented this Proudhonian Mutualism in its purest and most systematic form .".

* 1924 – William Macewen, Scottish surgeon ( b. 1848 )

In March 1848, Prussia faced a revolution ( one of the revolutions of 1848 in various European nations ), which completely overwhelmed King Frederick William IV.

William Dyce, who was the first to start fresco work in 1848, died in 1864, completing only five of seven commissioned works.

The Rose Garden, based upon original designs by William Nesfield, is behind the Palm House, and was replanted between 2009 and 2010 using the original design from 1848.

He married his second wife, Sarah Elizabeth Griswold on August 10, 1848 in Utica, New York and had four children ( Samuel b. 1849, Cornelia b. 1851, William b. 1853, Edward b. 1857 ).

In 1848, in the New South Wales Legislative Council, William Wentworth proposed a plan to expand the existing Sydney College into a larger university.

The home at Woodford was broken up, as being unnecessarily large, and in 1848 the family relocated to Water House and William Morris entered Marlborough College.

* William II of Württemberg ( 1848 – 1921 ).

# Isabella Curwen ( d. 1848 ) had six children: Jane, Henry, William, John, Charles and Edward.

* October 18 – Viscount William Astor, American financier and statesman ( b. 1848 )

* March 15 – William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1848 )

In 1848, William Aspdin further improved his cement and in 1853, he moved to Germany where he was involved in cement making .. William Aspdin made what could be called meso-Portland cement ( a mix of Portland cement and hydraulic lime ).

As Democrats convened in Baltimore in June 1852, four major candidates vied for the nomination: Lewis Cass of Michigan, the nominee in 1848, who had the backing of northerners in support of the Compromise of 1850 ; James Buchanan of Pennsylvania, popular in the South as well as in his home state ; Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, candidate of the expansionists and the railroad interests ; and William L. Marcy of New York, whose strength was centered in his home state.

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, PC, FRS ( 15 March 1779 – 24 November 1848 ) was a British Whig statesman who served as Home Secretary ( 1830 – 1834 ) and Prime Minister ( 1834 and 1835 – 1841 ).

‘ Lamb, William, second Viscount Melbourne ( 1779 – 1848 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004 ; online edn, Jan 2008, accessed 27 Dec 2009.

In 1843 he was one of the founders of the New Englander ( later the Yale Review ), and in 1848, with Richard Salter Storrs, Joshua Leavitt, Joseph Parrish Thompson, and Henry C. Bowen, he founded the Independent, a magazine designed primarily to combat slavery extension ; he was an editor of the Independent until 1863.

* James M. Munyon ( 1848 – 1918 ), publisher and doctor ; born in Thompson

LaMarcus Adna Thompson ( March 8, 1848 – May 8, 1919 ) was an American inventor and businessman most famous for developing many highly enjoyable gravity rides.

Thompson was born in Jersey, Licking County, Ohio on March 8, 1848.

* William Thompson retains the Championships of England but there is no record of any fights involving him in 1848.

* Uncle Jimmy Thompson ( 1848 – 1931 ), country music pioneer

* James Thompson ( civil servant ) ( 1848 – 1929 ), Acting Governor of Madras

The museum's collection was amassed substantially by two men, William Thompson Walters ( 1819 – 1894 ), who began serious collecting when he moved to Paris at the outbreak of the American Civil War, and his son Henry Walters ( 1848 – 1931 ), who refined the collection and rehoused it in a palazzo building on Charles Street which opened in 1909.

* Col. William Thompson ( journalist ) ( 1848 – 1934 ), American Indian fighter and journalist

* William Thompson ( archer ) ( 1848 – 1918 ), United States archer who won three medals at the 1904 Summer Olympics

Islanders and Aborigines at Cape York: An ethnographic reconstruction based on the 1848 – 1850 ' Rattlesnake ' Journals of O. W. Brierly and information he obtained from Barbara Thompson.

He was born in 1848 to William Thompson Walters.

The Floyd's Bluff area was settled in 1848 by William Thompson, a recent veteran of the Mexican-American War.

He built a home there and was married in 1848 to Mary Jane, the daughter of early settler Joseph Thompson.