Year (''' MDCCCXLIX ''') was a Common Year Starting On Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian Calendar ).
- January 1
- --- France issues Ceres , France's first Postage Stamp .
- ---In Milan , anti- Austria n activists Organize a smoking boycott in protest of the Austrian Monopoly on Tobacco . Protests erupts into brief riots.
- January 12 - Uprising against Austrian troops in Palermo , Sicily .
- January 13 - Second Anglo-Sikh War - British forces retreat from the Battle Of Chillianwala .
- January 21 - General elections in the Papal States .
- January 23 - Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her MD by the Medical Institute of Geneva, New York , thus becoming the United States ' first woman doctor.
- January 31 - Corn Laws abolished in the United Kingdom (following legislation in 1846).
- February 8 - New Roman Republic established.
- February 14 - In New York City , James Knox Polk becomes the first President Of The United States to have his Photograph taken.
- February 28 - Regular Steamboat service from the west to the east coast of the United States begins with the arrival of the SS ''California'' in San Francisco Bay . The ''California'' left New York Harbor on October 6 , 1848 , rounded Cape Horn at the tip of South America , and arrived at San Francisco, California after the 4 month 21 day journey.
- March 3
- --- Minnesota becomes a United States Territory .
- --- The United States Department Of The Interior is established.
- --- The U.S. Congress passes the Gold Coinage Act allowing the minting of Gold Coin s.
- March 4 - Zachary Taylor refuses to be sworn in office on a Sabbath (Sunday). Urban Legend holds that David Rice Atchison , President Pro Tempore Of The United States Senate was President ''de jure'' for a single day.
- March 5 - Zachary Taylor , the 12th President Of The United States Of America , takes his oath of office.
- March 28 - Four Christians are ordered burnt alive in Antananarivo , Madagascar by Queen Ranavalona I and 14 others are executed.
- March 29 - The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab
- April 1 - After ten days, the insurrection in Brescia is ended by Austrian Troops .
- April 2 - The Revolutions Of 1848 In The German States end and fail.
- April 14 - Hungary declares independence from Austria
- Union Workhouse die over the course of the preceding week from illness and other famine-related conditions, a record high.
- April 25 - The Governor General Of Canada , Lord Elgin , signs the Rebellion Losses Bill , outraging Montreal 's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots .
- April 27 - Giuseppe Garibaldi enters in Rome to defend it from the French troops of General Oudinot .
- May 3 - The May Uprising In Dresden begins - the last of the German Revolutions Of 1848 .
- May 3 - Break in the Mississippi River levee at Sauvé's Crevasse which will flood much of New Orleans, Louisiana
- May 15 - Troops of the Two Sicilies take Palermo and crush the republican government of Sicily
- May 17 - The St. Louis Fire started when a Steamboat caught fire and nearly burned down the entire city.
- June 5 - Denmark becomes Constitutional Monarchy
- June 6 - The City of Fort Worth, Texas is founded, at that time known as "Camp Worth". Starting off humbly, the city would one day be a major cattle-herding center, and a major center of commerce in the South .
- January 9 - John Hartley , English tennis player, double winner of Wimbledon (d. 1935 )
- January 14 - James Moore , winner of the first ever cycle race. (d. 1935 )
- January 18
- --- Edmund Barton , first Prime Minister Of Australia (d. 1920 )
- --- Aleksander Świętochowski - Polish writer of Positivist period (d. 1938 )
- January 22 - August Strindberg , Swedish author, playwright, and painter (d. 1912 )
- February 13 - Lord Randolph Churchill , British statesman (d. 1895 )
- February 18 - Alexander Kielland , Norwegian author (d. 1906 )
- February 22 - Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin , Russian mathematician (d. 1915 )
- March 2 - Robert Means Thompson , American naval officer (d. 1930 )
- March 7 - Luther Burbank , American biologist and botanist (d. 1926 )
- March 19 - Alfred Von Tirpitz , German soldier (d. 1930 )
- April 6 - John William Waterhouse , Italian-born artist (d. 1917 )
- May 3 - Bernhard Von Bülow , Chancellor Of Germany (d. 1929 )
- May 16 - Jalaleddin Ali Mir Abolfazl Angha , 39th Oveyssi Sufi master (d. 1914 )
- May 22 - Louis Perrier , member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1913 )
- June 9 - Michael Peter Ancher , Danish painter (d. 1927 )
- July 22 - Emma Lazarus , American poet (d. 1887 )
- July 29 - Max Nordau , Austrian author, philosopher, and Zionist leader (d. 1923 )
- August 28 - Benjamin Godard , French composer (d. 1895 )
- September 3 - Sarah Orne Jewett , American writer (d. 1909 )
- September 14 - Ivan Petrovich Pavlov , Russian researcher, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1936 )
- November 29 - John Ambrose Fleming , English electrical engineer and inventor (d. 1945 )
- December 4 - Crazy Horse , Chief of the Oglala Sioux (d. 1877 )
- December 6 - August Von Mackensen , German field marshal (d. 1945 )
- December 12 - William Kissam Vanderbilt , American railway magnate (d. 1920 )
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