* 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

After Macready " retired " to America, he continued to perform in the role ; in 1849, he was involved in a rivalry with American actor Edwin Forrest, whose partisans hissed Macready at Astor Place, leading to what is commonly called the Astor Place Riot.

In 1843-1844 he made a prosperous tour in the United States, but his last visit to that country, in 1849, was marred by a riot at the Astor Place Theatre, New York, arising from the jealousy of the actor Edwin Forrest, and resulting in the death of twenty-three persons and the further injuring of one hundred, who were shot by the militia called out to quell the disturbance ; Judge Charles Patrick Daly later presided at the trial.

His jealousy of Macready resulted in the Astor Place riot in May 1849.

A riot broke out in 1849 when the lower-class patrons of the Bowery objected to what they perceived as snobbery by the upper class audiences at Astor Place: " After the Astor Place Riot of 1849, entertainment in New York City was divided along class lines: opera was chiefly for the upper middle and upper classes, minstrel shows and melodramas for the middle class, variety shows in concert saloons for men of the working class and the slumming middle class.

In periods when theatre was considered a form of mass entertainment, there were phenomena of rival fans supporting rival actors or theatrical teams, occasionally leading to violent outbursts having many similarities to present-day violence of sports fans – the Astor Place Riot in 1849 New York City being a conspicuous example.

Built to be the fashionable theater in 1847, it was the site of the Astor Place Riot of May 10, 1849.

File: Appletons ' Astor John Jacob-library. jpg | The Astor Library, seen in a 1900 drawing, opened in 1849.

File: Astor Place Opera-House riots crop. jpg | The Astor Place riot in 1849: anti-British feelings expressed in a dispute over competing productions of Macbeth ; the Astor Opera House is in the background

* Financier William Backhouse Astor, Jr. ( Class of 1849 );

The Astor Place Riot occurred on May 10, 1849 at the now-demolished Astor Opera House in Manhattan, New York City and left at least 25 dead and more than 120 injured.

On May 7, 1849, three nights before the riot, Forrest's supporters bought hundreds of tickets to the top level of the Astor Opera House, and brought Macready's performance of Macbeth to a grinding halt by throwing at the stage rotten eggs, potatoes, apples, lemons, shoes, bottles of stinking liquid and ripped up seats.

In 1911, it was rechristened Place Émile Goudeau for Émile Goudeau ( 1849 – 1906 ), a popular novelist, poet, and journalist who founded Les Hydropathes, a renowned literary club.

After attending the inauguration of James Polk's successor, Zachary Taylor, on March 5, 1849, he and Sarah left by horse and carriage to their new home " Polk Place " in Nashville, Tennessee.

On the Earl's death in 1849 he inherited the estates, which included Skipton Castle in Yorkshire and Hothfield Place, Maidstone, Kent, and became a British citizen the same year.

* Frédéric Chopin, ( 1810 – 1849 ), the Polish composer, at 12, Place Vendôme, where he died.

* La Place de la Brèche à Constantine ( 1849 )

These premises are situated at the corner of Francis Street and Chapeltown Road, and was the former site of Willow House built in 1849 by Benjamin Randall Vickers of Vickers Oils, Leeds who founded the first Wesleyan congregation on Willow House premises The present facilities replace the former Roscoe Place Methodist Church which was opened in 1862 and extended in 1882 situated at the Sheepscar end of Chapeltown Road next to the Archives Libray building.

On Horner's death in 1837, Sarah Horner lived with another daughter, Charlotte Augusta ( 1819 ?-- 1863 ; m. 1849 )), and son-in-law, John Lamble Harrison ( 1820 ?-- 1877 )), and their daughters, Charlotte Sarah ( b. 1852 ) and Elizabeth Caroline ( b. 1856 ), at 33, Grovesnor Place, Bath.

In 1849, the Stony Monday Riot took place in Bytown on Monday 17 September.

Bytown's had seen some trouble in the early days, first with the Shiners ' War in 1835 to 1845, and the Stony Monday Riot in 1849.

In the Cincinnati Riot of 1853, in which one demonstrator was killed, Forty-Eighters violently protested the visit of the papal emissary Cardinal Gaetano Bedini, who had repressed revolutionaries in the Papal States in 1849.

In September 1849, the market area was the scene of the " Stony Monday Riot ".

The Stony Monday Riot took place in Bytown ( now Ottawa ), Ontario on Monday September 17, 1849.