His first job at age 13 in 1848 was as a bobbin boy, changing spools of thread in a cotton mill 12 hours a day, 6 days a week in a Pittsburgh cotton factory.

Her second and last novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, which is considered to be one of the first sustained feminist novels, appeared in 1848.

In 1903, Bartók wrote his first major orchestral work, Kossuth, a symphonic poem which honored Lajos Kossuth, hero of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.

In February 1848 it was decided that Prince Albert would acquire the remaining part of the lease on Balmoral, together with its furniture and staff, and the couple arrived for their first visit on 8 September 1848.

The first two, in 1848 and 1849, failed before departure due to US opposition.

Cuba built the first railway system in the Spanish empire, before the 1848 start in the Iberian peninsula.

Chicago's first railway, Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, opened in 1848, which also marked the opening of the Illinois and Michigan Canal.

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

Eureka: A Prose Poem, an essay written in 1848, included a cosmological theory that presaged the Big Bang theory by 80 years, as well as the first plausible solution to Olbers ' paradox.

George Dragas, and the 1848 Encyclical of the Eastern Patriarchs ( which refers explicitly to the " Eighth Ecumenical Council " and was signed by the patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, Antioch, and Alexandria as well as the Holy Synods of the first three ), regard other synods beyond the Seventh Ecumenical Council as being ecumenical.

In 1848, Douglass was the only African American to attend the first women's rights convention, the Seneca Falls Convention.

* 1848 – California Gold Rush: The first ship with Chinese immigrants arrives in San Francisco, California.

George Stephenson ( 9 June 1781 – 12 August 1848 ) was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer who built the first public railway line in the world to use steam locomotives.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, institutionalisation of the word became complete with its first appearance in a dictionary ( 1848 ) and first appearance in an encyclopedia ( 1868 ).

Several important institutional changes took place in this period, such as free and mandatory schooling introduced 1842 ( as first country in the world ), the abolishment of a previous national monopoly on trade in handicrafts in 1846, and a stock company law in 1848.

John Jacob Astor ( born Johann Jakob Astor ; July 17, 1763 – March 29, 1848 ) was a German-American business magnate, merchant and investor who was the first prominent member of the Astor family and the first multi-millionaire in the United States.

* 1848 – Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of the independent African Liberia.

In 1848 Senator Davis introduced the first of several proposed amendments to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ; this one would annex most of northeastern Mexico and failed with a vote of 44 to 11.

In 1847 his first Salon success came with the exhibition of a painting Oedipus Taken down from the Tree, and in 1848 his Winnower was bought by the government.

The first edition of The Manifesto of the Communist Party, published in German in 1848

He saw ‘ anarchic initiative ,’ ‘ reasoned will ’ and ‘ the autonomy of each ’ as the conditions for the social revolution of the proletariat, the first expression of which had been the barricades of June 1848 ( see Revolutions of 1848 ).

* was a 91-gun second-rate ship of the line, originally laid down as HMS Edgar, but renamed in 1848 and launched in 1859.

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

Soon came the establishment of the B & B foundry in 1847, the delivery of its first steam engine in 1848, the renting of the Jacob Holm Shipyard at the ' Englishman's Place ' in 1851, and the delivery of their first ship S / S Hermod in 1854, before Baumgarten retired from regular duties in 1861.

* The first was one of nine ships of the line authorized by Congress in 1816, but it was not launched until 1848, and only ever saw service as a receiving ship, from 1862 to 1901.

The first immigrant ship from England, the Artemisia, reached Moreton Bay in December 1848 after a four month journey.

* was a 50-gun fourth rate launched in 1848, loaned as a training ship after 1865, and sold in 1914.

They left Germany in 1848 on the sailing ship " J. W. Andrews " and arrived in New York in January 1849.

* HMS Colossus was an 80-gun second rate ship of the line launched in 1848.

* USCS Belle ( 1848 ), a survey ship in service with the United Coast Survey from 1848 to 1857

The Hudson River Railroad reached Ossining in 1848, opening the village up to industrial development along the waterfront and allowing farmers inland to ship their produce to the markets of New York City.

* The fourth Challenger was to have been an 18-gun corvette of 810 tons ; the ship was ordered from Chatham Dockyard in 1845, but cancelled in 1848.

The survey ship Robert J. Walker, which served in the United States Coast Survey from 1848 to 1860, was named for Walker.

* The second Black Prince was a 74-gun third-rate launched in 1816, in use as a prison ship after 1848, and broken up 1855.

The Canterbury Association ’ s surveyor Captain Joseph Thomas and his team of surveyors arrived in Lyttelton ( originally named Port Cooper ) on 15 December 1848 on the ship ' Fly '.

In the mid-19th century ( records dispute whether it was 1855 or 1848 ), a ship from Tahiti was carrying out salvage work when a box containing NZ $ 15, 000 worth of coins was dug up.

She fought at the Battle of Trafalgar, was used as a convict ship from 1816 and sold in 1848.

Parker reported to the Yorktown in September, and the ship set sail for Africa on November 22, 1848.

In 1848 80 Fencible families came here from Ireland and England on the ship Clifton and established a settlement with 99 raupo huts on the eastern shores of the lagoon.

On 29 April 1848 Edmund Kennedy and his men sailed out of Sydney Harbour in the barque Tam O ' Shanter in company with the survey ship HMS Rattlesnake, for the journey to Rockingham Bay.

Jackey Jackey made it to the supply ship alone on 23 December 1848.

In October 1847, Lt. Walke went home for another extended leave after which he reported back to the receiving ship at New York on September 22, 1848.

Naval training at this time took place on board ship, and having obtained a nomination and passed the modest exams, he was posted to HMS Wellesley in spring 1848.