In the then Victorian Colony ( now State of Victoria in Australia ), the ( Royal ) Victorian Bowling Association was formed in 1880 and The Scottish Bowling Association was established in 1892, although there had been a failed attempt in 1848 by 200 Scottish clubs.

* 1848 – The ship John Wickliffe arrives at Port Chalmers carrying the first Scottish settlers for Dunedin, New Zealand.

* 1924 – William Macewen, Scottish surgeon ( b. 1848 )

* January 13 – Mary Slessor, Scottish Christian missionary ( b. 1848 )

Originally named Pewonagowink Township when organized in 1848, but was later changed at the request of John Farquharson, a Scot, renamed the township to Montrose to impress his Scottish friends.

In 1880, Scottish surgeon William Macewen ( 1848 – 1924 ) reported on his use of orotracheal intubation as an alternative to tracheotomy to allow a patient with glottic edema to breathe, as well as in the setting of general anesthesia with chloroform.

His Homeric pastoral The Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich, afterwards renamed Tober-na-Vuolich ( 1848 ), and written in hexameter is full of socialism, reading-party humours and Scottish scenery.

In 1880, the Scottish surgeon William Macewen ( 1848 – 1924 ) reported on his use of orotracheal intubation as an alternative to tracheotomy to allow a patient with glottic edema to breathe, as well as in the setting of general anesthesia with chloroform.

* Thomas Lipton ( 1848 – 1931 ), Scottish merchant and personality ; created Lipton tea brand ; also known as Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton

* Ranald MacDonald, a half-Chinook, born in Fort Astoria, Oregon, to Archibald McDonald, a Scottish Hudson's Bay Company fur trader, and Raven, chief Concomly's daughter, was the first Westerner to teach English in Japan, in 1847 – 1848, including educating Einosuke Moriyama, one of the chief interpreters that would later handle the negotiations between Commodore Perry and the Tokugawa Shogunate

* Gilbert E. Primrose ( 1848 – 1935 ), Scottish international footballer

The town is just off the North Wales Coast railway line which was opened as the Chester and Holyhead Railway in 1848, became part of the London and North Western Railway in 1859, and part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923.

In prose Aird wrote Religious Characteristics, and The Old Bachelor in the Old Scottish Village ( 1848 ).

* George Young ( Presbyterian minister ) ( 1777 – 1848 ), Scottish Presbyterian minister

* Andrew Wilson ( artist ) ( 1780 – 1848 ), Scottish landscape-painter

* John Ferguson ( Scottish footballer ) ( 1848 – 1929 ), 19th century Scottish footballer

This continued until the Scottish settlers arrived in 1848 and made Port Chalmers and Dunedin the new population centres on the harbour.

* March 22-Sir William Macewen, Scottish surgeon ( born 1848 )

William Tennant ( May 18, 1784-February 14, 1848 ), Scottish scholar and poet, was born at Anstruther, Fife.

* The majority of the stations on the Caledonian and Scottish Central railways, including Edinburgh ( 1847 – 1848 ) and Perth ( 1847 – 1848 )

* Alexander Marshall Mackenzie ( 1848 – 1933 ), Scottish architect

The word ' ester ' was coined in 1848 by German chemist Leopold Gmelin, probably as a contraction of the German Essigäther-acetic ether.

In Pasteur's early work as a chemist, he resolved a problem concerning the nature of tartaric acid ( 1848 ).

* August 20 – Jöns Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist ( d. 1848 )

* Sir Joseph Beecham, 1st Baronet ( 1848 – 1916 ), eldest son of Thomas Beecham the chemist

* August 7-Jöns Jakob Berzelius, chemist ( died 1848 )

He had seven siblings: three being, Lilla Cabot ( b. 1848 ), among the first American impressionist artists, Samuel Cabot IV ( b. 1850 ), chemist and founder of Cabot Stains, and Dr. Arthur Tracy Cabot ( b. 1852 ), a progressive surgeon.

* Francis Robert Japp, ( 1848 – 1928 ), chemist

Franz Ritter von Soxhlet ( January 12, 1848 – May 5, 1926 ) was a German agricultural chemist from Brno.

Robert Adamson ( 26 April 1821 – 14 January 1848 ) was a Scottish chemist and pioneer photographer at Hill & Adamson.

After James Prescott Joule had determined the mechanical equivalent of heat, Lord Kelvin approached the question from an entirely different point of view, and in 1848 devised a scale of absolute temperature which was independent of the properties of any particular substance and was based solely on the fundamental laws of thermodynamics.

The best English edition is by James Waterworth ( London, 1848 ; With Essays on the External and Internal History of the Council ).

* 1848 – California Gold Rush: In a message before the U. S. Congress, US President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California.

In 1848 James B. Francis, while working as head engineer of Lowell's Locks and Canals company, improved on these designs to create a turbine with 90 % efficiency.

* 1848 – California Gold Rush: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter's Mill near Sacramento.

In 1764, Watt married his cousin Margaret ( Peggy ) Miller, with whom he had five children, two of whom lived to adulthood: James Jr. ( 1769 – 1848 ) and Margaret ( 1767 – 1796 ).

A steam engine built to James Watt's patent in 1848 at Freiberg, Saxony | Freiberg in Germany

In 1848, James Joseph Sylvester introduced the term matrix, which is Latin for " womb ".

In the 1830s and 1840s, physical anthropology was prominent in the debate about slavery, with the scientific, monogenist works of the British abolitionist James Cowles Prichard ( 1786 – 1848 ) opposing those of the American polygenist Samuel George Morton ( 1799 – 1851 ).

* March 19 – Arthur James Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( b. 1848 )

It was in here on January 28, 1848 that James Marshall met privately with Sutter in order to show Sutter the gold that Marshall had found during the construction of Sutter's sawmill along the American River only four days earlier.

As Democrats convened in Baltimore in June 1852, four major candidates vied for the nomination: Lewis Cass of Michigan, the nominee in 1848, who had the backing of northerners in support of the Compromise of 1850 ; James Buchanan of Pennsylvania, popular in the South as well as in his home state ; Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, candidate of the expansionists and the railroad interests ; and William L. Marcy of New York, whose strength was centered in his home state.

In January 1848, James Marshall discovered a small nugget of gold in the American River, sparking the California Gold Rush.

On August 13, 1848, President James K. Polk signed an act creating the entire region as the Oregon Territory.

It was finished in 1848 when Chicago Mayor James Hutchinson Woodworth presided over its opening ; and it allowed boat transportation from the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico.

Lucretia and James Mott visited central and western New York in the summer of 1848 for a number of reasons, including visiting the Cattaraugus Reservation of the Seneca Nation and former slaves living in the province of Ontario, Canada.

The California Gold Rush ( 1848 – 1855 ) began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California.

On January 24, 1848 James W. Marshall, a foreman working for Sacramento pioneer John Sutter, found shiny metal in the tailrace of a lumber mill Marshall was building for Sutter on the American River.

On December 5, 1848, President James Polk confirmed the discovery of gold in an address to Congress.

* 1848 – James Dwight Dana, Manual of Mineralogy

* James Gordon Bennett, Jr. ( 1848 – 1918 ), American newspaper publisher, sportsman

* James W. Marshall ( 1810 – 1885 ), discoverer of gold at Sutter's Mill in California in 1848.

" In 1848, Congress agreed to buy the rest of James Madison's papers for the sum of $ 22, 000 or $ 25, 000.