1849

Years: 1846 1847 1848 - 1849 - 1850 1851 1852
Decades: 1810s 1820s 1830s - 1840s - 1850s 1860s 1870s
Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century 1849 in art 1849 in literature 1849 in science 1849 in music 1849 in sports List of state leaders in 1849 List of religious leaders in 1849

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths

Events

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
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 United States 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 The Revolutions of 1848 in the German states ends and fails.
April 13 – Hungary declares independence – Austria crushes the rebellion with Russian aid
June 5 - Denmark becomes constitutional monarchy
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
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

Births

January 18 - Edmund Barton, first Prime Minister of Australia († 1920)
January 22 - August Strindberg, Swedish author, playwright and painter
February 22 - Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin, mathematician
March 2 - Robert Means Thompson, naval officer († 1930)
March 7 - Luther Burbank, biologist, botanist
March 19 - Alfred von Tirpitz, German soldier († 1930)
July 29 - Max Nordau, author, philosopher and Zionist leader († 1923)
December 4 - Crazy Horse, Chief of the Oglala Sioux
December 12 – William Kissam Vanderbilt, railway magnate (+ 1920)
Emma Abbott, American opera singer
John William Waterhouse, artist

Deaths

March 14- Willem II, king of the Netherlands (1840-1849)
May 28 - Anne Brontë, author
June 15 - James Knox Polk, 11th President of the United States.
September 25 - Johann Strauss I, Austrian composer
October 7 - Edgar Allan Poe, writer
December 2 - Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen - queen consort of King William IV of the United Kingdom
William Miller, American baptist preacher