* 1847 – John C. Frémont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory.

The treaty was drafted in English and Spanish by José Antonio Carrillo, approved by American Lieutenant-Colonel John C. Frémont and Mexican Governor Andrés Pico on January 13, 1847 at Campo de Cahuenga in what is now North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.

A few days later Frémont led his men southeast toward Los Angeles, accepting the surrender of the leader Andres Pico and signing the Treaty of Cahuenga on January 13, 1847, which terminated the war in upper California.

On January 16, 1847, Commodore Stockton appointed Frémont military governor of California following the Treaty of Cahuenga.

Ordered to march with Kearny's army back east, Frémont was arrested on August 22, 1847 when they arrived at Fort Leavenworth.

Newhall Pass was initially named ' Fremont Pass ' for General John C. Frémont, who was thought to have passed through it in 1847 on his way to sign the Treaty of Cahuenga, but he actually went slightly east of the pass on the El Camino Viejo.

The conquest and annexation of Alta California was settled with the signing of the Treaty of Cahuenga by US Army Lieutenant-Colonel John C. Frémont and Californio General Andrés Pico on January 13, 1847.

Sweden purchased the small Caribbean island of Saint Barthélemy from France in 1784, then sold it back in 1878 ; the population had included slaves until they were freed by the Swedish government in 1847.

In 1847 he purchased the Rancho Las Mariposas land grant in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains near Yosemite.

In 1847, he purchased land on the north side of the river and platted it as " Dansville ".

Portions of Nassau Plantation were purchased by the Adelsverein, and settlement by German immigrants began 1845 to 1847 ; these settlers began buying up the local farms and the town lots.

In November 1847, Fort Buenaventura was purchased by the Mormon settlers for $ 1, 950.

In 1847, Captain Boardman of Naperville, Illinois, purchased the land at the mouth of the Boardman River at the head of the west arm of the bay.

John Smith purchased the brewery in 1847.

In 1847 John Smith purchased the Backhouse & Hartley brewery, a small, run-down brewery in Tadcaster, Yorkshire.

In 2012 the National Museum of Australia purchased the medal awarded to Leichhardt by London's Royal Geographical Society in 1847.

In 1847, the first lectures took place, the Committee of Education was established under the chair of F. D. Maurice, and number 45 was purchased.

His patent was purchased by the Electric Telegraph Company in 1847 for £ 600.

In 1847 the Eastern Branch was purchased by the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company, and became part of the Shropshire Union network.

In 1847, after the American success in the Mexican-American War, Horton traveled to St. Louis, Missouri then the gateway to the Western frontier, and purchased 1, 500 acres ( 6 km² ) of land in the rural wilderness of northern Wisconsin.

From 1847 the company grew considerably and Mare purchased land on the Canning Town side of the River Lea, a ferry service being established between the two sites.

In May 1847, Carlow College president Dr. James Taylor purchased a house and farm of 127 acres at Knockbeg and St. Mary ’ s was opened there as a preparatory school to Carlow College, in 1892 lay students were transferred to Knockbeg.

His father, Herman, a wealthy German merchant immigrant, purchased the freedom of a slave woman, Tama, from the auction block in 1847.

It had been purchased by the City of Petersburg in 1847, and renamed Appomattox Railroad.

Called the Oregon Rifles, they were formed on December 8, 1847, and then gathered at Fort Vancouver on December 10, where they purchased supplies from the Hudson ’ s Bay Company ( HBC ) post.

In 1846 the SER purchased the Thames and Medway Canal tunnel near Higham and laid railway tracks through it ; in 1847 trains were working through from the Strood terminus, on the River Medway to Gravesend.

Due chiefly to Stanton's ill health, the family moved to Seneca Falls, New York in 1847, where they resided in a house purchased for them by Daniel Cady.

He purchased several hundred acres of land ( which later became known as " Grew's Woods ," partially preserved today as the Stony Brook Reservation and the George Wright Golf Course ) and moved to the area in 1847.

The erstwhile Brighton, Lewes and Hastings Railway were authorised to build the line in 1845 ; the LBSCR purchased it and opened the link on 1 October 1847.

* London to Richmond was opened on 27 July 1846 by the Richmond Railway, which was purchased by the London and South Western Railway ( L & SWR ) in 1847.

In 1847, former Republic of Texas vice president Edward Burleson purchased the land surrounding the headwaters of the river and built a cabin on the hill overlooking the headwaters.

The region was named for Cyrus Alexander, owner of a part of the Rancho Sotoyome Mexican land grant, in 1847.

Instead, in 1847 he and Noriega had purchased Rancho Cañada de los Vaqueros and added it to their holdings.

Between 1847 and 1980, the state of Liberia was governed by the small minority of African-American colonists and their offspring, together called Americo-Liberians, suppressing the large indigenous majority of 95 % of the Liberian population.

The Liberian economy between 1847 and 1980 expanded from primitive agriculture, through large scale rubber industry, to exploitation of mineral resources and rendering services.

In 1847 large fragments of his speeches, Against Demosthenes and For Lycophron ( incidentally interesting for clarifying the order of marriage processions and other details of Athenian life, and the Athenian government of Lemnos ) and the whole of For Euxenippus ( c. 330 BCE, a locus classicus on eisangeliai or state prosecutions ), were found in a tomb at Thebes in Egypt.

It was originally much larger in size and included a large part of what is now Sullivan County until 1847.

At the foot of the hill, there is a large monument to the Niños Héroes also called the Altar a la Patria, who threw themselves to their death here rather than surrender to invading U. S. troops in 1847.

In 1847, the American Medical Association adopted its first code of ethics, with this being based in large part upon Percival's work.

In June 1847, Méndez learned that a large force of armed Mayas and supplies had gathered at the Culumpich, a property owned by Jacinto Pat, the Maya batab ( leader ), near Valladolid.

In 1847, measles brought by a rapid influx of white settlers killed off a large part of the tribe, and the Cayuse were convinced the missionaries were the cause.

Under Louis Philippe he made large contributions to French jurisprudence, editing the Journal du palais, 1791 – 1837 ( 27 you., 1837 ) and 1837 – 1847 ( 17 vols.

In 1847 they were ready to set up a production plant and bought an estate on the coast of Lake Vättern where they built a large match factory.

Originally there was a large central attic window of ' Dutch ' type ( as can be seen in the woodcut from Lipscomb's History of the County of Buckingham ( 1847 )).

" A vessel of thirty-seven feet length, nine feet breadth of beam, and eighteen inch draw, for her trial voyage on San Francisco Bay a very large passenger was repeatedly warned not to stir from his " post of honor immediately over the boiler ," and on her only voyage to Sacramento in November / December 1847 it was reported that the baby of one of her passengers needed to be passed around to keep the " crank " vessel trim.

In 1847, the Whitman massacre and the Cayuse War in what became southeastern Washington raised fears among white settlers throughout the region and led to the formation of large volunteer militias organized to fight Indians.

The prime minister however had been able to retain power by maintaining a large, modernized army and politically dominating the court during the minority of King Rajendra Bikram Shah, ( reigned 1816 – 1847 ).

Heritage registered houses include Como House ( 1847 ), one of Melbourne's earliest mansions on its large estate on Williams Road, now owned by the National Trust and known for its long association with the Armytage family, Richmond House ( 1859 ), in Avoca Street, formerly home to Sir Rupert Clarke Bt, Barwon ( 1881 ) and Airlie House on Domain Road, once the townhouse of the Chirnside family of Werribee Park fame, which now serves as a leadership college for Victoria Police.

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.

In 1847, just east of the Rocky Mountains, the Kimball family dug a large hole, wrapped their piano in buffalo skins and carefully buried it.

In 1847, at a time of great Roman Catholic revival in England, and prosperity brought by the textile mills of Lancashire, the architect, Joseph Hansom, was commissioned to build a large church.

On September 6, 1847, as the armistice and negotiations that followed the Battle of Churubusco were breaking down, a large number of Mexican troops were observed around a group of low, massive stone buildings known as El Molino del Rey or King's Mill.

The pause which occurred between 1840 and 1847 in the emancipation struggle was due in large measure to a schism, which at the time seemed unfortunate, which had split the Jewish community in two and which prevented the members acting in unison for the defence of their rights.

Fremont carved a large cross into the rock monolith, which was blasted off the rock on July 4, 1847 by some among hundreds of California and Oregon emigrants who had gathered on the site.

In 1845 he became chief engineer to the Manchester and Leeds Railway, and in 1847 to its successor, the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway for which he constructed a large number of branch lines.

It also displays a large selection of steam engines used for industrial propulsion, including a huge beam engine used in the Midleton whiskey distillery, a pumping engine employed in Jameson's distillery in Dublin, and a large beam engine installed in Smithwick's brewery, Kilkenny, in 1847.