In 1847 and 1848, during the Mexican – American War, Breckinridge was a major of the 3rd Kentucky Volunteers, but saw no action.

In 1847, a flour mill and a saw mill were built on Mosquito Creek, southwest of the present site of Underwood.

In 1847, the village saw some development with the laying of a railroad through the village.

She never saw her children again, dying in 1847, aged 97.

Maria's reign saw a revolutionary insurrection on 16 May 1846, but this was crushed by royalist troops on 22 February 1847, and Portugal otherwise avoided the European upheavals of 1848.

Il Risorgimento (" The Resurgence " in English ) was a liberal, nationalist newspaper founded in Turin 15 December 1847 by Count Camillo Benso di Cavour and Cesare Balbo, who was a backbone of the " neo-Guelph " party that saw in future a rejuvenated Italy under a republican government with a papal presidency — ideas with which Cavour did not agree.

He saw much of her in 1847 and she was his mistress from at least 1849 until her death in 1882.

The Battle of Buena Vista ( 23 February 1847 ), also known as the Battle of Angostura, saw the United States ( U. S .) Army use artillery to repulse the much larger Mexican army in the Mexican-American War.

The Whitman massacre of 1847 triggered the Cayuse War, which saw fighting from the Cascade Range to the Rocky Mountains.

The location of the park is where, on July 24, 1847, Brigham Young first saw the Salt Lake Valley that would soon become the Mormon pioneers ' new home.

Charles Kettle saw the area from the top of Maungatua in 1847 and was impressed by the land's pastoral potential.

The 1847 to 1914 period saw the development of the Swiss railway network.

The 1847 to 1914 period saw the development of the Swiss railway network.

Yancey recognized the significance of the Wilmot Proviso to the South and in 1847, as the first talk of slaveholder Zachary Taylor as a presidential candidate surfaced, Yancey saw him as a possibility for bringing together a Southern political movement that would cross party lines.

On the Hamilton, Ward sailed from New York to Hong Kong in 1847, but probably saw little beyond the port city because the Qing Dynasty forbade foreigners from venturing inland ( Hong Kong Island had become a British Crown Colony in 1842, at the end of the First Opium War ).

1847 saw the premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's first opera for Paris, Jérusalem, an adaptation, meeting the grand opera conventions, of his earlier I Lombardi alla prima crociata.

Born the second sons of Lieutenant General Humphrey Lyons, Lyons joined the Royal Navy in 1847 and saw service in the Crimean War, where he was appointed flag-lieutenant to his uncle, Lord Lyons.

Couch then saw action with the U. S. Army during the Mexican-American War, most notably in the Battle of Buena Vista on February 22 – 23, 1847.

His period as Chief Rabbi saw the completion of the emancipation of Jews within the United Kingdom ; the election ( 1847 ) and seating ( 1858 ) of Lionel de Rothschild as the first Jewish member of parliament ; Nathan Mayer Rothschild's ascent as the first Jewish member of the House of Lords ( 1885 ); and Sir David Salomons's term as the first Jewish Lord Mayor of London ( 1855 ).

Entering the army from the military school of Saint-Cyr, he saw considerable active service in Algeria, and in 1840 became captain ; in 1847 chef de bataillon.

" Amazing Grace ", with the words written by Newton and joined with " New Britain ", the melody most currently associated with it, appeared for the first time in Walker's shape note tunebook Southern Harmony in 1847.

* 1847 – Birkenhead Park, the first civic public park, is opened in Birkenhead.

The phrase " black-letter law " was used in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court case Naglee v. Ingersoll, 7 Pa. 185 ( 1847 ), almost 50 years before the first publication of Black's.

He was the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) from 1847 until his death in 1877, he founded Salt Lake City, and he served as the first governor of the Utah Territory, United States.

This led to the first British chocolate bar in 1847, followed in 1849 by the Cadbury brothers.

* 1847 – Jefferson Davis is elected to the US senate, his first political post.

The first useful explosive stronger than black powder was nitroglycerin, developed in 1847.

* 1847 – The first group of rescuers reaches the Donner Party.

The American physician and missionary Thomas Staughton Savage and naturalist Jeffries Wyman first described the western gorilla ( they called it Troglodytes gorilla ) in 1847 from specimens obtained in Liberia.

He was the first president of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers on its formation in 1847.

The gardens were the first location in Ireland where the infection responsible for the 1845 – 1847 potato famine was identified.

* 1847 – Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government.

In 1847 his first Salon success came with the exhibition of a painting Oedipus Taken down from the Tree, and in 1848 his Winnower was bought by the government.

In 1847 Krupp made his first cannon of cast steel.

* 1847 – Mexican-American War: The first large-scale amphibious assault in U. S. history is launched in the Siege of Veracruz.

These reforms included guarantees to ensure the Ottoman subjects perfect security for their lives, honour, and property ; the introduction of the first Ottoman paper banknotes ( 1840 ) and opening of the first post offices ( 1840 ); the reorganization of the finance system according to the French model ( 1840 ); the reorganization of the Civil and Criminal Code according to the French model ( 1840 ); the establishment of the Meclis-i Maarif-i Umumiye ( 1841 ) which was the prototype of the First Ottoman Parliament ( 1876 ); the reorganization of the army and a regular method of recruiting, levying the army, and fixing the duration of military service ( 1843 – 44 ); the adoption of an Ottoman national anthem and Ottoman national flag ( 1844 ); the first nationwide Ottoman census in 1844 ( only male citizens were counted ); the first national identity cards ( officially named the Mecidiye identity papers, or informally kafa kağıdı ( head paper ) documents, 1844 ); the institution of a Council of Public Instruction ( 1845 ) and the Ministry of Education ( Mekatib-i Umumiye Nezareti, 1847, which later became the Maarif Nezareti, 1857 ); the abolition of slavery and slave trade ( 1847 ); the establishment of the first modern universities ( darülfünun, 1848 ), academies ( 1848 ) and teacher schools ( darülmuallimin, 1848 ); establishment of the Ministry of Healthcare ( Tıbbiye Nezareti, 1850 ); the Commerce and Trade Code ( 1850 ); establishment of the Academy of Sciences ( Encümen-i Daniş, 1851 ); establishment of the Şirket-i Hayriye which operated the first steam-powered commuter ferries ( 1851 ); the first European style courts ( Meclis-i Ahkam-ı Adliye, 1853 ) and supreme judiciary council ( Meclis-i Ali-yi Tanzimat, 1853 ); establishment of the modern Municipality of Istanbul ( Şehremaneti, 1854 ) and the City Planning Council ( İntizam-ı Şehir Komisyonu, 1855 ); the abolition of the capitation ( Jizya ) tax on non-Muslims, with a regular method of establishing and collecting taxes ( 1856 ); non-Muslims were allowed to become soldiers ( 1856 ); various provisions for the better administration of the public service and advancement of commerce ; the establishment of the first telegraph networks ( 1847 – 1855 ) and railroads ( 1856 ); the replacement of guilds with factories ; the establishment of the Ottoman Central Bank ( originally established as the Bank-ı Osmanî in 1856, and later reorganized as the Bank-ı Osmanî-i Şahane in 1863 ) and the Ottoman Stock Exchange ( Dersaadet Tahvilat Borsası, established in 1866 ); the Land Code ( Arazi Kanunnamesi, 1857 ); permission for private sector publishers and printing firms with the Serbesti-i Kürşad Nizamnamesi ( 1857 ); establishment of the School of Economical and Political Sciences ( Mekteb-i Mülkiye, 1859 ); the Press and Journalism Regulation Code ( Matbuat Nizamnamesi, 1864 ); among others.

Here he remained until called to succeed Philip Marheineke at Berlin in 1847 ; subsequently he became university preacher, rector of the university, provost of St Nicolai ( in 1854 ) and member of the supreme council of the church, in which last capacity he was one of the ablest and most active promoters of the Evangelical Union.

From 1847 he took an active part in politics, and in 1860 was chosen an Italian senator, at the same time becoming inspector-general of the Italian telegraph lines.

In 1847 Dudley retired from active leadership in the railroad.

* George Wright ( sportsman ) ( 1847 – 1937 ), American baseball player / manager, also active in golf and tennis

Stairs was also active in politics, serving as a Member of the Nova Scotia General Assembly from 1841 to 1843, then as mayor of Halifax from 1847 to 1848 and later as a Legislative Councillor.

When the war with Mexico opened, Major Twiggs requested an active part in the fighting and was attached to the Marine Battalion which left New York in June 1847.

In 1847, as a member of the lesser nobility, he entered the Estates of Lower Austria and took an active part in the Liberal movement for administrative and constitutional reform of which they were the center.

Put on the non active list in 1844, by 1847 he was reinstated and made Inspector-General of infantry.

He was particularly active on behalf of sufferers from the Irish potato famine in 1847, demanding more decisive action.

Rastrick retired from active life in 1847, moving to Sayes Court, Addlestone, Chertsey in Surrey which was an eight-bedroom mansion in of grounds.

After a short stay in France he returned to Italy and identified himself with the Liberal movement ; he became an active journalist, and founded a newspaper called L ' Opinione in 1847.

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Richard Henry Bonnycastle ( 30 September 1791 – 3 November 1847 ) was an officer of the British army active in Upper Canada.

He represented the city in Parliament until 1847, an active member of the Anti-Corn Law League.