In March 1848, Garrison, the Motts, Abby Kelley Foster, Stephen Symonds Foster and others hosted an Anti-Sabbath meeting in Boston, to work toward the elimination of laws that apply only to Sunday, and to gain for the laborer more time away from toil than just one day of rest per week.

Image: Edward Hicks 001. jpg | The Residence of David Twining, ( 1845 – 1848 ), Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection

The Christadelphian community in Britain effectively dates from Thomas's first lecturing tour ( May 1848 – October 1850 ).

Slavery was abolished on the island on 28 May 1848 at the initiative of Victor Schoelcher.

These demonstrations reached a climax when on 15 May 1848, workers from the secret societies broke out in armed uprising against the anti-labor and anti-democratic policies being pursued by the Constituent Assembly and the Provisional Government.

* 1849 – The May Uprising in Dresden begins – the last of the German revolutions of 1848.

The colony of New Brunswick soon followed on May 1848 when Lieutenant Governor Edmund Walker Head brought in a more balanced representation of Members of the Legislative Assembly to the Executive Council and ceded more powers to that body.

* May 8 – Paul Gauguin, French painter ( b. 1848 )

* May 12 – Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author ( b. 1848 )

* May 25 – Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury ( b. 1848 )

* May 30 – Togo Heihachiro, Japanese admiral ( b. 1848 )

** The May Uprising in Dresden ( the last of the German revolutions of 1848 ) begins.

* May 30 – Robert Darwin, medical doctor and father of Charles Darwin ( d. 1848 )

Revolutionary barricades during the May Uprising in Dresden ( 1848 )

Dresden was a centre of the German Revolutions in 1848 with the May Uprising, which cost human lives and damaged the historic town of Dresden.

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* Battle of Santa Lucia, 6 May 1848 – the Carabinieri Corps was awarded its first Bronze Medal of Military Valor

The year 1848 brought to the fore a new generation of Czech authors who followed in the footsteps of Mácha, and published their work in the new almanac Máj ( May ) ( e. g. Vítězslav Hálek, Karolina Světlá and Jan Neruda ).

The town has traditionally been known as the seat of Serbian Orthodox Church in the Habsburg Monarchy, as well as political and cultural capital of Serbian Vojvodina after the May Assembly and during the Revolution in 1848.

From October 1848 until May 1849, around 300 Bábís ( later rising to 600 ), led by Mullá Muhammad ‘ Alí of Bárfarúsh, surnamed Quddús, and Mullá Husayn-i-Bushru ' i, defended themselves against the attacks of local villagers and members of the shah's army under the command of Prince Mihdí Qulí Mirzá.

John Snow of London published articles from May 1848 onwards " On Narcotism by the Inhalation of Vapours " in the London Medical Gazette.

Prince Metternich was appointed by Francis I to the positions of Hofkanzler and Staatskanzler ( 25 May 1821 to 13 March 1848 ).

Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans (; February 5, 1848 – May 12, 1907 ) was a French novelist who published his works as Joris-Karl Huysmans ().

Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (; 7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903 ) was a leading French Post-Impressionist artist who was not well appreciated until after his death.

The music was composed by the German immigrant Fredrik Pacius, with ( original Swedish ) words by Johan Ludvig Runeberg, and was performed for the first time on 13 May 1848.

Oola railway station opened on 9 May 1848 and finally closed on 9 September 1963.

Crittenden insisted that the terms of peace should not include the acquisition of territory to which the United States did not have a " just claim ", but the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo submitted to Congress in 1848 called for Mexico to give up not only its claims to Texas, but also to New Mexico, California, and all the territory in between.

In 1848 they were reorganized and given the name of " Oblates of St. Charles " and reassigned the house of the Holy Sepulchre.

In 1848 France abolished slavery and the ex-slaves fled into the rainforest setting up communities similar to the ones they had been stolen from in Africa.

She married Joel Addison Hayes, Jr. ( 1848 – 1919 ), and they had five children.

First published on 21 February 1848, it laid out the beliefs of the Communist League, a group who had come increasingly under the influence of Marx and Engels, who argued that the League must make their aims and intentions clear to the general public rather than hiding them as they had formerly been doing.

In 1819 Cardiff Cricket Club was formed, by 1848 they had moved to their new home at the Arms Park.

A study of 65 predominantly Yankee counties showed that they voted only 40 % for the Whigs in 1848 and 1852, but became 61 – 65 % Republican in presidential elections of 1856 through 1864.

When Denmark abolished slavery in 1848, many plantation owners wanted full reimbursement, on the grounds that their assets were damaged by the loss of the slaves, and by the fact that they would have to pay for labor in the future.

A particularly famous sea serpent sighting was made by the men and officers of HMS Daedalus in August 1848 during a voyage to Saint Helena in the South Atlantic ; the creature they saw, some long, held a peculiar maned head above the water.

1848 ) is about from the Missouri River, and the trail and its many offshoots nearly all converged close to Fort Kearny as they followed the Platte River west.

On April 7, 1848, in response to a citizen's petition, the New York State Assembly passed the Married Woman's Property Act, giving women the right to retain property they brought into a marriage, as well as property they acquired during the marriage.

Though hurricanes are infrequent on this part of Florida's coast, they have had a large impact on the islands, with the Hurricane of 1848 forming John's Pass between Madeira Beach and Treasure Island, a hurricane in 1921 cleaving Hog Island into Honeymoon and Caladesi Islands and creating Hurricane Pass, and 1985's Hurricane Elena sealing Dunedin Pass to join Caladesi with Clearwater Beach.

Strang moved his followers to Beaver Island in 1848, and they are known as Strangites.

After their marriage in 1848, they travelled to Venice where Ruskin was researching his book The Stones of Venice.

Early in 1848, after the founders had the proposed town surveyed, they offered and the choice of a lot free to the first ten families to settle the townsite.

When the first pioneer families settled in the South Cottonwood area in the fall of 1848, they selected the low or bottom lands along the streams of Little Cottonwood Creek and Big Cottonwood Creek where they found an abundance of grass for their cattle and horses.

In 1848 the Langdons, founders of the settlement from which sprung the village, raised a frame for a gristmill, but they had exhausted their means in their sawmill and store, and were unable to purchase the necessary machinery to operate it.

During the failed German revolution of 1848, rebels took young Ludwigshafen, but they were bombarded from Mannheim ( rumours said the Mannheimers didn't aim at the revolutionaries, but on the rival harbour's infrastructure ) and Prussian troops quickly expelled the revolutionaries.

In 1848, they built a large plantation there.

On 30 May 1848, when the two countries exchanged ratifications of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, they further negotiated a three-article protocol to explain the amendments.

Mitchel wrote in The Nation on 5 February 1848, " I say distinctly … that I do not recommend an immediate insurrection … Mr Doheny has shown most graphically how the people would be butchered if they rose in armed resistance to the poor rates ; but the only resistance to rates I spoke of was passive resistance.

Friedrich Hecker and Franz Joseph Trefzger, lost at Kandern on April 20, 1848 ; Freiburg, which they held, fell on April 24 ; and on April 27 a Franco-German legion, which had invaded Baden from Strasbourg, was routed at Dossenbach.

Unfortunately no copy of these 1848 rules exists today, but they are thought to have included laws governing throw-ins, goal-kicks, halfway line markings, re-starts, holding and pushing ( which were outlawed ) and offside.