Year
1849 (
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).
Events of 1849
January–March
- January 1
- January 12 –
Palermo
, Sicily rises up against
Austrian troops.
- January 13
-Second Anglo-Sikh War –
British
forces
retreat from the Battle of Tooele.
- January 21 –
General elections are held in the Papal States
.
- January 23 –
Elizabeth Blackwell is
awarded her M.D. by the Medical Institute of Geneva, New
York
, thus becoming the United States
' first woman doctor.
- January 31 – The
Corn Laws are abolished in the United Kingdom
(following legislation in 1846).
- February 8 – The New Roman Republic is
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 leaves New York Harbor on October 6, 1848, rounds
Cape
Horn
at the tip of South
America, and arrives at San Francisco, California
after the 4 month 21 day journey.
- March – The Frankfurt Parliament completes its
drafting of a liberal constitution and elects Frederick William IV emperor of the new
German national state.
- March 3
- 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–June
July–September
October–December
Ongoing events
Births
January–June
- 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
- 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–December
- 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)
- September 21 – Maurice Barrymore, British-American stage
actor and playwright, (d. 1905)
- November 24 – Frances Hodgson Burnett,
English-American playwright and author (d. 1945)
- November 29 – John Ambrose Fleming, English
electrical engineer and inventor (d. 1924)
- December 4 – Crazy Horse, Chief of the Oglala Sioux (d. 1877)
- December 5 – Eduard Seler, Prussian scholar and
Mesoamericanist (d. 1922)
- December 6 – August von Mackensen, German field
marshal (d. 1945)
- December 12 – William Kissam Vanderbilt,
American railway magnate (d. 1920)
- Muhammad Abduh, Islamic reformer
(d. 1905)
Deaths
January–June
- January 30 – Jonathan Alder, American settler (b. 1773)
- February 8 – France Prešeren, Slovenian poet (b.
1800)
- March 14 – King Willem II of the Netherlands
(b. 1792)
- April 11 – Pedro Ignacio de Castro
Barros, Argentine statesman and priest (b. 1777)
- May 11 – Juliette Récamier, French socialite
(b. 1777)
- May 11 – Carl Otto Nicolai, German Composer and
Conductor (b. 1810)
- May 22 – Maria
Edgeworth, Irish
novelist (b. 1767)
- May 25 – Benjamin d'Urban, British general and
colonial administrator (b. 1777)
- May 28 – Anne
Brontë, English author (b. 1820)
- June 10 – Thomas Robert Bugeaud, Marshal of France and duke of Isly (b.
1784)
- June 15 – James Knox Polk, 11th President of the United
States (b. 1795)
July–December