" 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 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.

In 1840, he began exhibiting historical and genre pictures at the Paris Salon, earning several medals for his works, in particular for his 1847 masterpiece, Romans in the Decadence of the Empire.

These include Self-Portrait with Black Dog ( c. 1842 – 1844, accepted for exhibition at the 1844 Paris Salon ), the theatrical Self-Portrait which is also known as Desperate Man ( c. 1843 – 45 ), Lovers in the Countryside ( 1844, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon ), The Sculptor ( 1845 ), The Wounded Man ( 1844 – 1854, Musée d ' Orsay, Paris ), The Cellist, Self-Portrait ( 1847, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, shown at the 1848 Salon ), and The Man with a Pipe ( c. 1848 – 1849, Musée d ' Orsay, Paris ).

The Paris Salon of 1847, an art exhibition, revealed the academic painter Jean-Léon Gérôme, who in The Cock Fight depicted a composition in which, in a scene of antiquity, a young boy and a girl attend the combat of two cocks.

He sent this painting to the Salon of 1847, where it gained him a third-class medal.

His first great success was produced at the Salon of 1847, by the Gorges de la Chiffa.

His work was shown at the Salon du Louvre in 1839 and every year from 1843 to 1847.

It was not printed until December 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, after the success of her sister Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre.

Rigoletto was a great box-office success for La Fenice and Verdi's first major Italian triumph since the 1847 premiere of Macbeth in Florence.

** first performed in 1847, and a huge success, leading to the performance of other plays

He met with immediate success, and beginning as a dramaturge in Königsberg with Der Blinde von Alcala ( 1846 ) and Lord Byron in Italien ( 1847 ), he went on to Hamburg where he occupied a similar position.

Designed by Joseph Paxton ( later Sir Joseph Paxton ) in 1843 and officially opened in 1847, it was an immediate social success.

Prior to Mokranjac's era, Serbia's representatives of the romantic period were world-renowned violinist Dragomir Krancevic ( 1847 – 1929 ), pianist Sidonija Ilic, Pianist and composer Jovanka Stojkovic and opera singer Sofija Sedmakov who achieved success performing in opera houses of Germany in the 1890s.

* 1848 – Lord Elgin, who had replaced Metcalfe in 1847, asks Baldwin and Lafontaine to form a government following their success in elections for the assembly.

With the reason for its construction removed, the canal was not a commercial success, and apart from the Chichester section, it had fallen into disuse by 1847.

The reformers ' success in 1847 led to the resignation of several key conservatives and the establishment of Grove and his associates with domination of the Council.

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.

In 1846, however, he resigned ; and then accepted the wardenship of Trinity College, Glenalmond, the new Scottish Episcopal public school and divinity college, where he remained from 1847 to 1854, having great educational success in all respects ; though his views on Scottish Church questions brought him into opposition at some important points to WE Gladstone.

For the next three years ( 1844 – 1847 ) he practised magnetic healing with much success ; and in 1847 he published The Principles of Nature, Her Divine Revelations, and a Voice to Mankind, which in 1845 he had dictated while in a trance to his scribe, William Fishbough.

These rivals contended for supremacy with varying success until 1847, when the Diwan then in possession was deposed on the recommendation of Herbert Edwardes, who appointed General Van Cortlandt to be Kardar.

In 1847 he played at Hamburg with marked success, was from 1849 to 1854 a member of the Burg theatre in Vienna, and then became connected with the Dresden court theatre.

In 1847 he began the work by which he is best remembered, his contributions to the development and education of the female mind, by lecturing at the College of France on the moral history of women: these discourses were collected into a volume in 1848, and enjoyed a great success.

His opera Esmeralda ( libretto by composer, based on Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame ) was composed in 1839 ( performed 1847 ), and his Rusalka was performed in 1856 ; but he had little success or recognition either at home or abroad, except in Belgium, until the 1860s, when he became the elder statesman, but not a member, of The Five.

After failures in 1847 and 1850, attempts by the Submarine Telegraph Company to lay an undersea telegraph cable across the English Channel, from Dover to Calais, promised success.

The Moderate party made him war minister in 1847, and sent him to Catalonia, where his efforts to put down a Carlist rising were not attended with success.

During the preparation of these works he was from 1847 to 1855 privatdocent at Bonn, and was then appointed professor of geology, palaeontology and mineralogy in the University of Breslau, a post which he held with signal success as a teacher until his death.

Jimma's eventual success at conquering the Badi-Folla in 1847, reopened the trade route between Kaffa and Shewa, which merchants found was a much better route, and brought an end to Limmu-Ennarea prosperity, despite Abba Bagido's later actions.

He succeeded Karl Devrient at Karlsruhe, and went in 1847 to Berlin, where he acted Othello and Hamlet with great success, he received a permanent engagement at that theatre.

A March 1847 edition of The Illustrated London News described a performance of Pablo Fanque, the 19th century equestrian and circus performer thus: " This extraordinary feat of the manège has proved very attractive, as we anticipated in our Journal of last week ; and we have judged the success worthy of graphic commemoration ..." Further, the paper said, " Mr. Pablo has trained his black mare to do the most extraordinary feats of the manege, an art hitherto considered to belong only to the French and German professors of equitation, and her style certainly far exceeds anything that has ever yet been brought from the Continent.