With E. R. Larken and others he set up a building society in 1847.

Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1847 – 48, satirizing society in early 19th-century Britain.

Stone's forthright ability to speak out about abolition was noticed in early 1847 by William Lloyd Garrison, and in mid-1847 he approached her about becoming an agent for his abolition society.

He communicated to that society in 1847 an able paper on a long-period lunar inequality ( Memoirs Roy.

In 1847 Adams published a widely distributed book titled Letters on the Masonic Institution that criticized the Masons ' secret society.

On the first of June in 1847, three young men gathered in a New York City bungalow with a purpose in mind: the constitution of a new Greek-letter society.

The Schweizerische Nordbahn ( SNB ) society opened the first railway line on Swiss soil in 1847, connecting Zürich and Baden.

The Schweizerische Nordbahn ( SNB ) society opened the first railway line on Swiss soil in 1847, connecting Zürich and Baden.

In 1847, he joined the Swedish immigrant society at Bishop Hill Colony in Henry County, Illinois, which had been founded by sect leader Erik Janson.

Two events in his life were remarkable, given the era he lived in and the position he held in society as a duke: firstly, he obtained a divorce at a time when that required an act of parliament ; secondly, despite the great wealth he was born to, he declared bankruptcy with debts of over a million pounds in 1847.

Some interpret Karl Marx as advocating technological determinism, with such statements as " The Handmill gives you society with the feudal lord: the steam-mill, society with the industrial capitalist " ( The Poverty of Philosophy, 1847 ), but others argue that Marx was not a determinist.

But this arrangement did not work out and in early 1847, a fund was raised by means of donations and subscriptions with a view to forming a horticultural society and a public garden.

Cooley had proposed that the new society should be known as the " Columbus Society ", but at the inaugural Council Meeting, 26 January 1847, it was decided that it be named in commemoration of the Elizabethan historian and expansionist Richard Hakluyt the Younger, collector and editor of narratives of voyages and travels and other documents relating to English interests overseas.

In 1847 the parsonage was the meeting place of the first Slovak national and cultural society Tatrín, at which the definitive decision to use the central Slovak dialects as the basis for the new standard of the codified Slovak language was adopted.

Their son, Henry Warren Raymond, ( 1847 – 1925 ), was an 1869 graduate of Yale College, and, in the same year, was initiated as a member of the Skull and Bones secret society.

In 1847 he suggested the establishment of a society for the publication of undescribed British Fossils, and thus originated the Palaeontographical Society.

The society was quickly suppressed by the Tsarist authorities in March – April 1847.

Some Polish refugees from Kraków, following the defeat of the uprising there, invited him to speak at the meeting in November 1847 commemorating the Polish November Uprising of 1830.

In 1847, " the great shipwreck-year in Germany ," as he has called it, he was invited back to Göttingen on honourable terms — the liberal constitution having been restored.

In 1847, in consequence of the fall from power of the Abel ministry in Bavaria, with which he had been in close relations, he was removed from his professorship at Munich, but in 1849 he was invited to occupy the chair of ecclesiastical history.

The Krieghoffs returned to Montreal in 1846, and in 1847 he was invited to participate in the first exhibition of the Toronto Society of Arts.

In 1846 he had been invited by Barthélemy Prosper Enfantin to the Société d ' Études du Canal de Suez and took part in the exploration tour to the isthmus of Suez in 1847.

* February 3 – Felix Mendelssohn, German composer ( d. 1847 )

* Felix Mendelssohn ( 1809 – 1847 ), noted early Romantic composer, son of Abraham, grandson of Moses

Another early arrival in the Springfield vicinity was Captain Felix Scott, Sr. who settled between the McKenzie and Willamette rivers in 1847.

Fanny Hensel, 1842, by Moritz Daniel OppenheimFanny Mendelssohn ( 14 November 1805 – 14 May 1847 ), later Fanny Mendelssohn Bartholdy and, after her marriage, Fanny Hensel, was a German pianist and composer, the sister of the composer Felix Mendelssohn and granddaughter of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn.

Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from 1833 to 1847, Longman Green, London 1864.

It was also performed at the funeral of Felix Mendelssohn in 1847.

* February 3 – Felix Mendelssohn, composer ( died 1847 )

* Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy ( 1809 – 1847 ), composer

* Felix Mendelssohn ( 1809 – 1847 ), Piano Sextet in D major, Op.

Jenny Lind had made her English début on 4 May 1847 in the role of Alice in Giacomo Meyerbeer's Robert le Diable, in the presence of the Royal family and the composer Felix Mendelssohn.

In 1847, as a teenager, he was one of the choristers when Felix Mendelssohn conducted the first London performance of his Elijah at Exeter Hall.

The German composers Felix Mendelssohn ( 1809 – 1847 ) and Carl Maria von Weber ( 1786 – 1826 ) both lived and worked on Great Portland Street.

* Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy ( 1809 – 1847 ), German composer, pianist and Music Director of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

* 1843 – 1847: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy ( 1809 – 1847 )

The town's first leader on record was Juan Gazang who served for eight years between 1798 and 1806. with the exception of three other capitans-Cristobal ( 1806 ), Felix Santelices ( 1835 – 1842 ) and Teodoro Santelices ( 1843 – 1847 )-the rest served two terms.

* Fanny Hensel, née Mendelssohn, ( 1805 – 1847 ), sister of Felix Mendelssohn and wife of Wilhelm Hensel

* November 14 – Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer and pianist ( d. 1847 )

* Fanny Mendelssohn ( 1805 – 1847 ), composer and pianist, daughter of Abraham, granddaughter of Moses

Wagner was also emboldened by the death of Mendelssohn in 1847, the popularity of whose conservative style he felt was cramping the potential of German music.

At Mendelssohn ’ s death in 1847, Gade was appointed to his position as chief conductor but was forced to return to Copenhagen in the spring of 1848 when war broke out between Prussia and Denmark.