* 1847 – Whitman Massacre: Missionaries Dr. Marcus Whitman, his wife Narcissa, and 15 others are killed by Cayuse and Umatilla Indians, causing the Cayuse War.

The trail went to the Whitman Mission near Fort Nez Perces in Washington until 1847 when the Whitmans were killed by Native Americans.

It is named after Marcus Whitman, a Presbyterian missionary who, with his wife Narcissa, was killed in 1847 by members of the Cayuse tribe.

* Marcus Whitman ( 1802 – 1847 ), missionary physician who in 1843 convinced President Tyler that Oregon, and what is now the state of Washington, should be secured for the United States not Great Britain.

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

* Marcus Whitman ( September 4, 1802 – November 29, 1847 )

Marcus Whitman ( September 4, 1802 – November 29, 1847 ) was an American physician and missionary in the Oregon Country.

Following the deaths of all the Cayuse children and half their adults from a measles epidemic in 1847, in which the Cayuse suspected the Whitmans ' responsibility, they killed the Whitmans and 12 other settlers in what became known as the Whitman Massacre.

In 1847 Ogden averted an Indian war and successfully negotiated for the lives of 49 settlers taken as slaves by the Cayuse and Umatilla Indians after the Whitman massacre.

The Whitman massacre ( also known as the Walla Walla massacre and the Whitman Incident ) was the murder in the Oregon Country on November 29, 1847 of U. S. missionaries Dr. Marcus Whitman and his wife Narcissa, along with eleven others.

Caused in part by the influx of disease and settlers to the region, the immediate start of the conflict occurred in 1847 when the Whitman Massacre took place at the Whitman Mission near present day Walla Walla, Washington when fourteen people were killed in and around the mission.

Seeking revenge, Cayuse tribesmen attacked the Whitman Mission on November 29, 1847.

The Whitman massacre in 1847 and the ensuing Cayuse War increased tensions between Christians and the native population of the Oregon Territory, and as a result by 1850 the Diocese of Walla Walla was abandoned and its territory administered from Oregon City.

When, in the late fall of 1847, some Cayuse and Umatilla Indians killed Marcus Whitman, his wife Narcissa, and 12 others at the Whitman Mission, Among the dead, was Meek ’ s daughter, Helen Mar Meek, age 10, who died in captivity.

In 1847, the Old Colony Railroad completed a short 6. 2 mile connector line from its main line at Whitman to the Fall River Railroad line at Bridgewater Junction.

The apparent unwillingness of the Indian agent at Walla Walla to prosecute the crime enraged the Indians ; tensions worsened after the Whitman Massacre of 1847.

On November 29, 1847, the family of Dr. Marcus Whitman and others were massacred by Native Americans of the Cayuse.

On November 29, 1847, Marcus and Narcissa Whitman and twelve male residents ( ten adult men and two boys of 15 and 18 ) of their mission at Waiilatpu, Washington were murdered at the hands of several Cayuse.

When missionaries Dr. Marcus Whitman and Narcissa Whitman refused to leave their mission as racial tensions mounted in 1847, 14 American missionaries were killed by Cayuse and Umatilla Indians.

Cecilio Chi, the Maya leader of Tepich, along with Jacinto Pat attacked Tepich on 30 July 1847, in reaction to the indiscriminate massacre of Mayas, Chi ordered that all the non-Maya population be killed.

Explanations of the 1847 Whitman massacre in Walla Walla include outbreaks of disease, resentment over harsh attempts at conversion of both religion and way of life, and contempt of the native Indians shown by the missionaries, particularly by Narcissa Whitman, the first white American woman in the Oregon Territory.

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.

Their despair at the deaths, especially of their children, led the Cayuse under chief Tiloukaikt to kill the Whitmans in their home on November 29, 1847.

The Cayuse War was an armed conflict that took place in the Northwestern United States from 1847 to 1855 between the Cayuse people of the region and the United States Government and local Euro-American settlers.

In 1847 an epidemic of measles killed half the Cayuse.

A measles outbreak in 1847 killed half the local Cayuse.

The Provisional Legislature of Oregon in 1847 immediately raised companies of volunteers to go to war, if necessary, against the Cayuse, and, to the discontent of some of the militia leaders, also sent a peace commission.

In 1850, five Cayuse were convicted for murdering the Whitmans in 1847, and hanged.

The Habsburgs founded a number of monasteries ( with some structures enduring, e. g., in Wettingen and Muri ), the closing of which by the government in 1841 was a contributing factor to the outbreak of the Swiss civil war – the " Sonderbund War " – in 1847.

* 1847 – Mexican-American War: Battle of Buena Vista – In Mexico, American troops under General Zachary Taylor defeat Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.

* 1847 – Mexican-American War: The Battle of Buena Vista – 5, 000 American troops defeat 15, 000 Mexicans.

Anger among some social groups, however, was seething under the governor-generalship of James Dalhousie ( 1847 – 1856 ), who annexed the Punjab ( 1849 ) after victory in the Second Sikh War, annexed seven princely states on the basis of lapse, annexed the key state of Oudh on the basis of misgovernment, and upset cultural sensibilities by banning Hindu practices such as Sati.

* 1847 – The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican – American War in California.

The sleepy settlement of fewer than 20 people would remain dormant until the winter of 1847 when the state constitution required that the capital be moved from Detroit to a more central and safer location in the interior of the state ; many were concerned about Detroit's proximity to British-controlled Canada, which had captured Detroit in the War of 1812.

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

* 1847 – Mexican-American War: United States forces led by General Winfield Scott take Veracruz after a siege.

* Henri Dufour ( 1847 – 1848, Sonderbund War ; and 1856 – 57, Neuchâtel Crisis )

* 1847 – Mexican-American War: Winfield Scott captures Mexico City.

* 1847 – Mexican-American War: the Battle of Chapultepec begins.

* 1847 – Mexican-American War: Six teenage military cadets known as Niños Héroes die defending Chapultepec Castle in the Battle of Chapultepec.

The Treaty of Cahuenga, also called the " Capitulation of Cahuenga ," ended the fighting of the Mexican-American War in Alta California in 1847.

*, a bark-rigged steamer of the Mexican-American War in commission from 1847 to 1848

* August 2 – Albert Woolson, last surviving Union veteran of the American Civil War ( b. 1847 )

* Taos Revolt, a popular insurrection against the American occupation of New Mexico in 1847 during the Mexican-American War

In 1847 the bishop's seat was transferred from St. Andrä to Marburg an der Drau ( Maribor ), and after World War I the see's boundaries were adapted to the new political frontiers.

* St. David Pendleton Oakerhater, Okuhhatuh or " Making Medicine ," Southern Cheyenne ( 1847 – 1931 ), veteran of the Red River War, Fort Marion prisoner of war, ledger artist, deacon of Whirlwind Mission, sun dancer, canonized saint in the Episcopal Church

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

From 1847 until the start of the Civil War, several settlers moved into the county, living mostly in the vicinity of Camp Cooper.

It was named for Louis Dicken Wilson, a state legislator from Edgecombe County and a colonel in the Mexican-American War, who died of fever at Veracruz in 1847.

Cerro Gordo County was formed in 1851 and named after a battlefield in the Mexican War, where General Winfield Scott defeated the Mexican General Santa Anna on April 18, 1847.

In Rome in 1847, she met Sidney Herbert, a politician who had been Secretary at War ( 1845 – 1846 ).

In 1846, the town of Yerba Buena was seized by the United States during the Mexican-American War, and its name was changed in 1847 to San Francisco, after a nearby mission.