* 1849 – John William Waterhouse, British painter ( d. 1917 )

* 1849 – The first air raid in history.

* 1792 – Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen ( d. 1849 )

* 1917 – Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician ( b. 1849 )

* 1849 – Joaquim Nabuco, Brazilian writer, statesman, and abolitionist ( d. 1910 )

* 1849 – Hungary becomes a republic.

* 1849 – William Ernest Henley, English poet, critic, and editor ( d. 1903 )

Alfonso had two sons by Elena Armanda Nicolasa Sanz y Martínez de Arizala ( Castellón de la Plana, 15 December 1849 – Paris, 24 December 1898 ):

* 1849 – After a month-long siege, Venice, which had declared itself independent as the Republic of San Marco, surrenders to Austria.

* 1821 – Anita Garibaldi, Brazilian wife of Giuseppe Garibaldi ( d. 1849 )

* 1842 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia ( d. 1849 )

* 1849 – Hungary declares itself independent of Austria with Lajos Kossuth as its leader.

* 1849 – William R. Day, American diplomat and Justice of the Supreme Court ( d. 1923 )

Anne Brontë (; 17 January 1820 – 28 May 1849 ) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family.

Four more children followed: Charlotte, ( 1816 – 1855 ), Patrick Branwell ( 1817 – 1848 ), Emily, ( 1818 – 1848 ) and Anne ( 1820 – 1849 ).

* Arthur Wellesley, 4th Duke of Wellington ( 1849 – 1934 ), British soldier

* 1849 – The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.

* 1849 – Felix Klein, German mathematician ( d. 1925 )

Category: History of the United States ( 1789 – 1849 )

In 1864 William Wallace Mitchell ( 1803 – 1884 ), a Glasgow Cotton Merchant, published his " Manual of Bowls Playing " following his work as the secretary formed in 1849 by Scottish bowling clubs which became the basis of the rules of the modern game.

* Bertha Benz ( 1849 – 1944 ), German marketing entrepreneur who was the first to drive an automobile for a long distance

* Gongalegoda Banda ( 1809 – 1849 ), Sri Lankan rebellion leader

The novel is believed to be based on the cholera epidemic that killed a large percentage of Oran's population in 1849 following French colonization, but the novel is placed in the 1940s.

He remained " at the top of the tree ," as he put it, for the remaining decade and a half of his life, producing several large novels, notably Pendennis, The Newcomes, and The History of Henry Esmond, despite various illnesses, including a near fatal one that struck him in 1849 in the middle of writing Pendennis.

1849 was the first year of large scale cholera epidemics in the United States, and thousands are thought to have died along the trail on their way to California — most buried in unmarked graves in Kansas and Nebraska.

During the 1849 gold rush, Fort Laramie was known as " Camp Sacrifice " because of the large amounts merchandise discarded nearby.

Highclere Castle, Hampshire, ( c. 1842-50 ) with its large tower was remodelled in Elizabethan style for the Henry Herbert, 3rd Earl of Carnarvon, externally the building was completely altered, the plain Georgian building virtually rebuilt, although little of the interior is by Barry, his patron dying in 1849, and Thomas Allom completed it in 1861.

Having collected a large amount of invaluable information on this and kindred topics, in addition to much geographical knowledge gained in the prosecution of various explorations ( including visits with Sir Austen Henry Layard to the ruins of Nineveh ), he returned to England on leave of absence in 1849.

To illustrate the antiquities described in this work he published a large folio volume of Illustrations of the Monuments of Nineveh ( 1849 ).

The municipality of Skodje was established in 1849 when it was separated from the large municipality of Borgund.

After the Cologne-Minden railway opened in 1849, the Bozi brothers constructed the first large mechanised spinning mill in 1851.

The railway arrived in 1849 and a number of large country residences were subsequently erected in the area: amongst them, Harts Leap, Forest End, St Helens Upland, The Warren, Longdown Lodge, Ryefield, Snaprails, and Ambarrow Court.

Presuming on the loyalty of the Rhineland, in the spring of 1849, the Prussian government called up a large portion of the army reserve — the Landwehr in Westphalia and the Rhineland.

The production of large numbers of US gold coins ( First $ 1 1849 and $ 20 in 1850 ) from the new California mines lowered the price of gold .. so the value of silver rose.

A series of wall paintings covering large parts of the north and south walls, discovered during an 1849 restoration, are the chief interest of the church.

Although a crystallisation process using strontium hydroxide was patented by Augustin-Pierre Dubrunfaut in 1849 the large scale introduction came with the improvement of the process in the early 1870s.

It was the largest fire ever in the city, although a previous large fire had consumed many city blocks on April 7, 1849 when the city was much smaller and constructed mostly with wood.

During 1849 the surveyor Francis MacCabe laid out large reserves in the region of the Lower Murrumbidgee / Murray-Darling junction.

Harry Kellar ( July 11, 1849 – March 10, 1922 ) was an American magician who presented large stage shows during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

He followed these up with some singular though not very edifying books: Les Sept pêchés capitaux ( 16 vols., 1847 – 1849 ), which contained stories to illustrate each of the Seven Deadly Sins, Les Mystères du peuple ( 1849 – 1856 ), which was suppressed by the censor in 1857, and several others, all on a very large scale, though the number of volumes gives an exaggerated idea of their length.

As an innovator, he developed many new instruments and mechanisms, most notably a large viola that he called a " contralto ", and the three-string Octobass ( 1849 – 51 ), a huge triple bass standing 3. 48 metres high.

Although this was followed by restoration of the Papal States only four months later, in early 1849, yet the persecutions and the violence of past times had to a large extent disappeared.

Lawrence financed the founding of the University of Kansas ( in the town of Lawrence, named after him ); founded in 1849 a college that evolved into Lawrence University upon of land that he purchased in 1844 in the Fox River Valley, which became Appleton, Wisconsin ( named for his father-in-law ); and contributed large sums of money to Harvard and the Episcopal Theological School ( now Episcopal Divinity School ), in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Lawrence Academy, and the Groton School.

The front facade, with a large circular window, was not completed until 1849, and the work was supervised by John Williams, Madocks ' agent, who continued to serve the community long after Madocks ' death in 1828.

The California Gold Rush, starting in 1849, brought a large increase in the transportation of people from the Atlantic to the Pacific.