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| align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1844 1845 1846 - 1847 - 1848 1849 1850
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| align="center" colspan=2 | 1820s 1830s - 1840s ''' - 1850s 1860s 1870s
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| align="center" | - 19th Century ''' - 20th Century
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1847 was a Common Year Starting On Friday (see link for calendar).
Events
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February
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October
Undated
Ongoing events
Births
- Michel-Joseph Maunoury , French General during WWI (d. 1923 )
- Wong Fei Hung , Chinese healer and revolutionary (d. 1924 )
- February 8 - Hugh Price Hughes , Methodist Social Reformer, First Superintendent of the West London Mission (d. 1902 )
- February 11 - Thomas Alva Edison , American inventor (d. 1931 )
- February 15 - Robert Fuchs , Austrian composer (d. 1927 )
- March 3 - Alexander Graham Bell , Scottish-born inventor (d. 1922 )
- March 4 - Karl Bayer , Austrian chemist (d. 1904 )
- March 27 - Otto Wallach , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931 )
- April 10 - Joseph Pulitzer , Hungarian-born journalist and newspaper publisher (d. 1911 )
- May 7 - Archibald Primrose , Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom (d. 1929 )
- June 11 - Millicent Fawcett , British suffragist and feminist (d. 1929 )
- July 25 - Paul Langerhans , German pathologist and biologist (d. 1888 )
- September 5 - Jesse James , American outlaw (d. 1882 )
- October 2 - Paul Von Hindenburg , President Of Germany (d. 1934 )
- November 26 - Dagmar Of Denmark , empress of Tsar Alexander III Of Russia (d. 1928 )
- December 7 - George Grossmith , English actor and comic writer (d. 1912 )
- December 18 - Augusta Holmès , French composer (d. 1903 )
Exact month/day of birth unknown
Deaths
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