1849

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Years:
1846 1847 1848 - 1849 - 1850 1851 1852

Decades:
1810s 1820s 1830s - 1840s - 1850s 1860s 1870s

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1849 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).

1 Events
2 Unknown date
3 Ongoing Events
4 Births
5 Deaths

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Events

January 1 - France issues Ceres, France's first postage stamp.
January 1 - In Milan, anti-Austrian 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 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
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
February - Roman Republic (19th century) established
March 3 - End of Term for President of the United States James Knox Polk.
March 3 - Minnesota becomes a United States territory
March 3 - The United States Department of the Interior is established
March 3 - The U.S. Congress passes the Gold Coinage Act allowing the minting of gold coins
March 4 - Zachary Taylor refuses to be sworn in office on a Sabbath (Sunday). Concequently the office of President of the United States of America is vacant for a single day. Urban legend instead helds that David Rice Atchison, President pro tempore of the United States Senate was President for a single day.
March 5 - Zachary Taylor becomes the 12th President of the United States of America.
March 29 - The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab
April 2 - The Revolutions of 1848 in the German states end and fail.
April 13 – Hungary declares independence – Austria crushes the rebellion with Russian aid
April 21 - Irish Potato Famine: 96 inmates of the overcrowded Ballinrobe 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.
May 3 - The May Uprising in Dresden begins - the last of the German revolutions of 1848.
May 15 - Troops of the Two Sicilies take Palermo and crush the republican government of Sicily
June 5 - Denmark becomes constitutional monarchy
July 3 - French troops occupy Rome. Roman Republic surrenders to the Austrian and French troops
August 24 - Venice surrenders to Austrian troops after a 4-month siege
October 6 - The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian War of Independence.
November 16 - A Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group, but his execution is canceled at the last minute

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Unknown date

Joseph Fry makes the first chocolate bar
Fort Street High School was founded in Sydney, Australia. It is the oldest government school in Australia
French government publishes a decree that Carcassonne should be demolished. Public uproar forces them to begin renovation instead
The Brown Report, detailing conditions in prisons, is completed.
The village of Dubbo was planned and proclaimed.