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1847 (
MDCCCXLVII ) was a
common year starting on Friday of the
Gregorian calendar and a
common year starting on Wednesday of the
Julian calendar , the 1847th year of the
Common Era (CE) and
Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 847th year of the
2nd millennium , the 47th year of the
19th century , and the 8th year of the
1840s decade. As of the start of 1847, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
Events
January–March
January 4 –
Samuel Colt sells his first
revolver pistol to the U.S. government.
January 13 – The
Treaty of Cahuenga ends fighting in the
Mexican–American War in
California .
January 16 –
John C. Frémont is appointed Governor of the new
California Territory.
January 17 –
St. Anthony Hall fraternity is founded at
Columbia University , New York City.
January 30 –
Yerba Buena, California , is renamed
San Francisco .
February 5 – A rescue effort, called the First Relief, leaves Johnson's Ranch to save the ill-fated
Donner Party (California-bound migrants who became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada earlier this winter; some have resorted to survival by cannibalism).
February 22 –
Mexican–American War :
Battle of Buena Vista – 5,000 American troops under General
Zachary Taylor use their superiority in
artillery to drive off 15,000 Mexican troops under
Antonio López de Santa Anna , defeating the Mexicans the next day.
February 25 –
State University of Iowa is founded in
Iowa City, Iowa .
March – First known publication of the classic joke "
Why did the chicken cross the road? ", in
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine .
March 1
March 4 – The
30th United States Congress is sworn into office.
March 9 –
Mexican–American War : United States forces under General
Winfield Scott invade Mexico near
Veracruz .
March 14 –
Verdi 's opera
Macbeth premieres at the
Teatro della Pergola , in
Florence , Italy.
March 29 –
Mexican–American War : United States forces under General
Winfield Scott take
Veracruz after a
siege .
April–June
April 5 – The world's first municipally-funded civic public
park ,
Birkenhead Park in
Birkenhead on
Merseyside , England, is opened.
[1]
April 15 –
The Lawrence School, Sanawar is established in India.
April 16 –
New Zealand Wars : A minor
Māori chief is accidentally shot by a junior
British Army officer in
Whanganui on
New Zealand 's
North Island , triggering the
Wanganui Campaign (which continues until
July 23 ).
April 25 – The
Exmouth , carrying Irish emigrants from
Derry bound for
Quebec , is wrecked off
Islay , with only three survivors from more than 250 on board.
[2]
[3]
May – The
Architectural Association School of Architecture is founded in London.
May 7 – In
Philadelphia , the
American Medical Association (AMA) is founded.
May 8
The
Nagano earthquake leaves more than 8,600 people dead in
Japan .
Bahrain's ruler, Shaikh Mohamed bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, signs a treaty with the British to prevent and combat the slave trade in the Arabian Gulf.
May 31 – Second
Treaty of Erzurum : the
Ottoman Empire cedes
Abadan Island to the
Persian Empire .
June – E. H. Booth & Co. Ltd, which becomes the northern England supermarket chain
Booths , is founded when tea dealer Edwin Henry Booth, 19, opens a shop called "The China House" in
Blackpool .
June 1 – The first congress of the
Communist League is held in London.
June 9 –
Radley College , an
English public school , is founded near Oxford as a High Anglican institution.
[4]
June 26 – The first passenger railway wholly within modern-day Denmark opens, from
Copenhagen to
Roskilde .
[5]
July–September
October–December
October – The last
volcanic eruption of
Mount Guntur in
West Java occurs.
October 12 – German inventors and industrialists
Werner von Siemens and
Johann Georg Halske found
Siemens & Halske to develop the
electrical telegraph .
October 19 –
Charlotte Brontë publishes
Jane Eyre under the pen name of Currer Bell in England.
October 31 –
Theta Delta Chi is founded as a social
fraternity at
Union College ,
Schenectady, New York .
November 3 –
29 –
Sonderbund War : In Switzerland, General
Guillaume-Henri Dufour 's Federal Army defeats the Sonderbund (an alliance of seven
Catholic
cantons ) in a civil war, with a total of only 86 deaths.
November 4 –
8 –
James Young Simpson discovers the
anesthetic properties of
chloroform and first uses it, successfully, on a patient, in an
obstetric case in
Edinburgh .
[6]
[7]
November 10 – The first brew of
Carlsberg
beer is finished in
Copenhagen .
November 17 – The Battle of Um Swayya Spring takes place near a spring in Qatar, after a Bahraini force under Shaikh Ali bin Khalifa Deputy Ruler of Bahrain defeats the Al Binali tribe. The chief of the Al Binali, Isa bin Tureef, is slain in battle with over 70 fatalities from his side.
December 14 –
Emily Brontë and
Anne Brontë publish
Wuthering Heights and
Agnes Grey , respectively, in a 3-volume set under the pen names of Ellis Bell and Acton Bell in England.
December 20 – British
Royal Navy steam
frigate
HMS Avenger (1845) is wrecked on the
Sorelle Rocks in the
Mediterranean Sea with the loss of 246 lives and only eight survivors.
[8]
December 21 –
Emir Abdelkader surrenders to the French in Algeria.
Date unknown
Births
January
February
February 3 –
Warington Baden-Powell , British admiralty lawyer (d.
1921 )
February 4 –
Remus von Woyrsch , German field marshal (d.
1920 )
February 5 –
João Maria Correia Ayres de Campos, 1st Count of Ameal , Portuguese politician and antiquarian (d.
1920 )
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 13 –
Sir Robert McAlpine , Scottish builder (d.
1930 )
February 15 –
Robert Fuchs , Austrian composer (d.
1927 )
February 16 –
Philipp Scharwenka , Polish-German composer (d.
1917 )
February 17 –
Otto Blehr , Norwegian attorney, Liberal Party politician, 7th
Prime Minister of Norway (d.
1927 )
March
April
May
June
July
Paul von Hindenburg
Bram Stoker
August
September
October
Thomas F. Porter
Maria Pia of Savoy
October 1 –
Annie Besant , English women's rights activist, writer and orator (d.
1933 )
[9]
October 2 –
Paul von Hindenburg , German field marshal,
President of Germany (d.
1934 )
October 13
October 14 –
Wilgelm Vitgeft , Russian admiral (d.
1904 )
October 15 –
Ralph Albert Blakelock , American romanticist painter (d.
1919 )
October 16 –
Maria Pia of Savoy ,
Queen consort of Portugal (d.
1911 )
October 17 –
Chiquinha Gonzaga , Brazilian composer (d.
1935 )
October 19 –
Aurilla Furber , American author, editor, and activist (d.
1898 )
October 20 –
Mifflin E. Bell , American architect (d.
1904 )
October 22 –
Koos de la Rey , Boer general (d.
1914 )
October 30
November
December
Deaths
January–June
Fanny Mendelssohn
January 19 –
Charles Bent , first Governor of New Mexico Territory (b.
1799 ) (assassinated)
February 3 –
Marie Duplessis , French courtesan (b.
1824 )
February 5 –
Luis José de Orbegoso , Peruvian general and politician, 11th and 12th
President of Peru (b.
1795 )
March 9 –
Mary Anning , British paleontologist (b.
1799 )
March 3 –
Charles Hatchett , English chemist (b.
1765 )
[10]
April 21 –
Barbara Spooner Wilberforce , wife of British abolitionist William Wilberforce (b.
1777 )
April 30 –
Archduke Charles of Austria , Austrian general (b.
1771 )
May 14 –
Fanny Mendelssohn , German composer, pianist (b.
1805 )
May 15 –
Daniel O'Connell , Irish politician who promoted the
Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 (b.
1775 )
May 16 –
Vicente Rocafuerte , 2nd President of Ecuador (b.
1783 )
May 29 –
Emmanuel de Grouchy, Marquis de Grouchy , French marshal (b.
1766 )
May 31 –
Abbasgulu Bakikhanov , Azerbaijani writer (b.
1794 )
June 11 –
Sir John Franklin , British explorer (b.
1786 )
July–December
Felix Mendelssohn
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^
"The Exmouth - a terrible tragedy on Islay" . Isle of Islay . 2011. Retrieved July 13, 2012 .
^
"The Exmouth shipwreck off the Antrim Coast, Northern Ireland" . My Secret Northern Ireland . Retrieved July 13, 2012 .
^ Boyd, A. K. (1948).
The History of Radley College 1847-1947 . Oxford: Blackwell. Retrieved November 14, 2020 .
^
Marshall, John (1989). The Guinness Railway Book . Enfield: Guinness Books.
ISBN
0-8511-2359-7 .
OCLC
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page needed ]
^ First communicated to the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh, November 10, and published in a pamphlet, Notice of a New Anæsthetic Agent , in Edinburgh, November 12.
^ Gordon, H. Laing (2002).
Sir James Young Simpson and Chloroform (1811–1870) . Minerva Group, Inc.
ISBN
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^ Gilly, William Octavius Shakespeare (1850).
Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy between 1793 and 1849 . London: John W. Parker.
^ Framke, Maria:
Besant, Annie , in:
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^
"Charles Hatchett | British chemist | Britannica" . www.britannica.com . Retrieved February 27, 2022 .