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{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2011}}{{Year dab|1847}}{{Year nav|1847}}{{C19 year in topic}}{{Year article header|1847}} Events January–March - January 4 – Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the U.S government.
- January 13 – The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the 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 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 (these California-bound emigrants became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada in the winter of 1846–47, and some had resorted to cannibalism to survive).
- 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 1
- The state of Michigan formally abolishes the death penalty.
- Faustin Soulouque is elected the President of Haiti.
- 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 Teatro della Pergola, in Florence, Italy.
- March 29 – Mexican–American War: United States forces, led by 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 brig 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 Zenkoji earthquake leaves more than 8,600 people dead in Japan.
- 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 26 – The first passenger railway wholly within modern-day Denmark opens, from Copenhagen to Roskilde.[4]{{page needed|date=October 2016}}
July–September - July 1 – The United States issues its first postage stamps (pictured).
- July 24 – After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City.
- July 26 – Liberia gains independence.
- July 29 – The Cumberland School of Law is founded at Cumberland University, in Lebanon, Tennessee. At the end of this year, only 15 law schools exist in the United States.
- August 12 – Mexican–American War: U.S. troops of General Winfield Scott begin to advance along the aqueduct around Lakes Chalco and Xochimilco in Mexico.
- August 20 – Mexican–American War – Battle of Churubusco: U.S. troops defeat Mexican forces.
- August – Yale Corporation establishes the first graduate school in the United States, as Department of Philosophy and the Arts (renamed Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1892).
- September 14 – Mexican–American War: U.S. general Winfield Scott enters Mexico City, marking the end of organized Mexican resistance.
- September 30 – The Vegetarian Society is formed in the United Kingdom (it remains the oldest in the world).
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.[5][6]
- November 10 – The first brew of Carlsberg beer is finished in Copenhagen.
- 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 21 – Emir Abdelkader surrenders to the French in Algeria.
Date unknown - The Great Famine continues in Ireland.
- The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates the railroad town of Goldsborough, and the Wayne county seat is moved to the new town.
- Radley College, an English public school, is founded near Oxford.
Births January - January 3 – Albert Bielschowsky, German historian (d. 1902)
- January 5
- William Rose Bock, New Zealand engraver, medallist, illuminator, stamp designer, lithographer and publisher (d. 1932)
- Oku Yasukata, Japanese field marshal, leading figure in the early Imperial Japanese Army (d. 1930)
- January 7 – Caspar F. Goodrich, American admiral (d. 1925)
- January 10 – Gustav Behrend, German dermatologist (d. 1925)
- January 11
- Alpheus Michael Bowman, American politician (d. 1913)
- Marion McKinley Bovard, American academic administrator (d. 1891)
- January 16 – John Cutting Berry, American physician, missionary (d. 1936)
- January 20 – William Baldock, English cricketer (d. 1923)
- January 23 – Elijah Bond, American lawyer, inventor (d. 1921)
- January 24 – Radomir Putnik, Serbian field marshal (d. 1917)
- January 27 – Ella Dietz, American actress and author (d. 1920)
- January 28
- Dorus Rijkers, Dutch naval hero (d. 1928)
- William V. Allen, United States Senator (d. 1924)
- January 29
- Thomas Bonacum, Irish Catholic bishop (d. 1911)
- Philip Diehl, German engineer and inventor (d. 1913)
February - February 2 – Charles H. Baker, American politician (d. 1919)
- February 3 – Warington Baden-Powell, British naval law expert (d. 1921)
- February 5
- Mikhail Alekseyenko, Russian lawyer, professor of finance law, public figure (d. 1917)
- João Maria Correia Ayres de Campos, 1st Count of Ameal, Portuguese politician (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 – Robert McAlpine, Scottish builder (d. 1930)
- February 15 – Robert Fuchs, Austrian composer (d. 1927)
- February 16
- Philipp Scharwenka, Polish-German composer (d. 1917)
- Thomas Andrews (ironmaster), English metallurgical chemist (d. 1907)
- February 17 – Otto Blehr, Norwegian attorney, Liberal Party politician (d. 1927)
- February 19 – Josiah Howell Bagster, South Australian land agent, politician (d. 1893)
- February 20 – Reginald Alexander, British physician (d. 1916)
- February 26 – William A. B. Branch, American politician (d. 1910)
- February 28 – William Heap Bailey, Scottish amateur athlete (d. 1926)
March - March 1 – Thomas Brock, English sculptor (d. 1922)
- March 2
- Blanche Butler Ames, American politician (d. 1939)
- Isaac Barr, Anglican clergyman, promoter of British colonial settlement schemes (d. 1937)
- Cayetano Arellano, first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines under the American Civil Government (d. 1920)
- March 3 – Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born American inventor (d. 1922)
- March 4 – Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist (d. 1904)
- March 6
- Cesare Arzelà, Italian mathematics professor at the University of Bologna, recognized for his contributions in the theory of functions (d. 1912)
- Federico Andreotti, Italian painter (d. 1930)
- March 8
- William Bosomworth, English County cricketer (d. 1891)
- Anton Marius Andersen, American Lutheran minister (d. 1941)
- John Lister, English politician (d. 1933)
- March 12 – George Hope Bertram, Canadian politician (d. 1900)
- March 14 – Castro Alves, Brazilian poet (d. 1871)
- March 18 – William O'Connell Bradley, American politician from Kentucky (d. 1914)
- March 21 – Oscar Bielaski, American Major League Baseball player (d. 1911)
- March 22 – Alfred Bayliss, English-American educator (d. 1911)
- March 23
- Victor Besaucèle, French ornithologist (d. 1924)
- Edmund Gurney, British psychologist (d. 1888)
- March 27
- Otto Wallach, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931)
- Warren Ives Bradley, American writer (d. 1868)
- Garret Barry, Irish musician (d. 1899)
April - April 2
- Charles Frederic Moberly Bell, British journalist, editor (d. 1911)
- Flora Annie Steel, English writer (d. 1929)
- April 7 – John Arthur (cricketer), Tasmanian cricket player (d. 1877)
- April 10 – Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-born journalist, newspaper publisher (d. 1911)
- April 13 – J. Thompson Baker, American politician (d. 1919)
- April 15 – Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter, Polish Hasidic rabbi who succeeded his grandfather (d. 1905)
- April 16 – Hans Auer, Austrian architect (d. 1906)
- April 27
- Emma Irene Åström, Finnish teacher, Finland's first female university graduate (d. 1934)
- Walter Simon Andrews, British policeman (d. 1899)
- April 29 – Joachim Andersen, Danish flutist, conductor and composer (d. 1909)
May - May 1 – Hildegard Björck, first Swedish woman to gain a degree (d. 1920)
- May 7 – Archibald Primrose, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1929)
- May 9 – Antoni Berezowski, Polish noble (d. 1916)
- May 14 – Frederick William Borden, Canadian politician (d. 1917)
- May 19 – Henry Somerset, 9th Duke of Beaufort, England (d. 1924)
- May 25 – John Green Brady, American politician, Governor of the District of Alaska (1897-1906) (d. 1918)
- May 31 – Jules Bourgeois, French entomologist (d. 1911)
June - June 5 – Eric Barrington, British civil servant (d. 1918)
- June 8
- Oleksander Barvinsky, Ukrainian politician (d. 1926)
- Ida Saxton McKinley, First Lady of the United States (d. 1907)
- June 9
- John Romilly Allen, British archaeologist (d. 1907)
- June 10 – Gina Krog, Norwegian suffragist (d. 1916)
- June 11 – Millicent Fawcett, British suffragist (d. 1929)
- June 16
- Paul Alexis, French novelist, dramatist and journalist (d. 1901)
- Luella Dowd Smith, American educator, author, and reformer (d. 1941)
- June 19 – Robert Barker, English footballer (d. 1915)
- June 22 – Joseph Bolduc, Canadian politician (d. 1924)
- June 24 – Robert Bickersteth, British politician (d. 1916)
- June 26 – Daniel V. Asay, American iceboat racer (d. 1930)
- June 29 – Brother Azarias, American educator (d. 1893)
July - July 1 – Eugène Boullet, French entomologist (d. 1923)
- July 2 – Marcel Alexandre Bertrand, French geologist (d. 1907)
- July 4
- James Anthony Bailey, American circus ringmaster (d. 1906)
- Peter Anderson (Medal of Honor), American Union Army Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1907)
- July 9 – Wong Fei-hung, Chinese healer, revolutionary (d. 1924)
- July 12 – Karl Heinrich Barth, German musician (d. 1922)
- July 13 – George Atkinson-Willes, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1921)
- July 14 – Noël Ballay, French auxiliary doctor of the French navy (d. 1902)
- July 19
- Alexander Meyrick Broadley, British historian (d. 1916)
- Oliver Ernesto Branch, American politician (d. 1916)
- July 20
- Lord William Beresford, Irish army officer, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1900)
- Max Liebermann, German painter, printmaker (d. 1935)
- July 22 – Jean-Baptiste Bienvenu-Martin, French politician (d. 1943)
- July 23 – George Sydney Aldridge, Australian businessman (d. 1911)
- July 24
- Evelyn Boscawen, 7th Viscount Falmouth of England (d. 1918)
- Harry Anstey, English metallurgist, gold prospector who led the expedition that discovered gold in the Southern Cross (d. 1927)
- July 25 – Paul Langerhans, German pathologist, biologist (d. 1888)
- July 26 – András Bethlen, Hungarian politician (d. 1898)
- July 31
- James Allen Harker, English entomologist (d. 1894)
- Samuel Bridgeland, Canadian politician (d. 1903)
August - August 3 – John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, Canadian politician, Governor General (d. 1934)
- August 6 – Laurence George Bomford, British artist (d. 1926)
- August 7 – Guido Georg Wilhelm Brause, German botanist (d. 1922)
- August 11 – Harry Barron, Governor of Tasmania (1909-1913) and Western Australia (1913-1917) (d. 1921)
- August 12 – William Rankin Ballard, American businessman (d. 1929)
- August 13 – Alexander Theodorowicz Batalin, Russian botanist (d. 1896)
- August 14 – Karl Oskar Medin, Swedish scientist, pediatrician (1927)
- August 21 – Hale Johnson, American temperance movement leader (d. 1902)
- August 28 – Sir George Bonham, 2nd Baronet, British diplomat (d. 1927)
- August 30 – Morton Betts, English footballer (d. 1914)
September - September 1 – Archibald Kennedy, 3rd Marquess of Ailsa (d. 1938)
- September 3 – Charles Stillman Sperry, American admiral (d. 1911)
- September 5
- Jesse James, American outlaw (d. 1882)
- Joseph Bucklin Bishop, American journalist, publisher (d. 1928)
- September 10 – Franklin Bartlett, American politician (d. 1909)
- September 14 – William Edward Ayrton, English physicist, electrical engineer (d. 1908)
- September 15 – Tadeusz Browicz, Polish pathologist (d. 1928)
- September 16 – Arthur Bromley, British Royal Navy officer who became Admiral Superintendent of Malta Dockyard (d. 1909)
- September 17 – John I. Beggs, American businessman (d. 1925)
- September 22 – Enrique Almaraz y Santos, Spanish Catholic cardinal (d. 1922)
- September 23 – Anandamohan Bose, Indian politician, academic and social reformer (d. 1906)
- September 24 – William Edward Briggs, British politician (d. 1903)
- September 25 – Edward Austin (cricketer), English cricketer (d. 1891)
- September 26 – Wolf Wilhelm Friedrich von Baudissin, German theologian (d. 1926)
- September 30
- Wilhelmina Drucker, Dutch feminist (d. 1925)
- Vilma Hugonnai, Hungarian medical doctor (d. 1922)
October - October 1
- Sophia Amirajibi, Georgian translator of poetry (d. 1906)
- Annie Besant, English women's rights activist, writer and orator (d. 1933)
- October 2 – Paul von Hindenburg, German field marshal, President of Germany (d. 1934)
- October 3 – Lilian Whiting, American journalist, editor, and author (d. 1942)
- October 4 – Louis Henri Boussenard, French author of adventure novels (d. 1911)
- October 6 – Webb C. Ball, American jeweler, watchmaker from Fredericktown, Ohio (d. 1922)
- October 9 – William Anderson Black, Canadian politician (d. 1934)
- October 11 – Alexander Bolton, Australian politician (d. 1918)
- October 13
- Sir Arthur Dyke Acland, 13th Baronet, British politician (d. 1926)
- Maurice Bailloud, French general (d. 1921)
- October 14 – Wilgelm Vitgeft, Russian admiral (d. 1904)
- October 15 – Ralph Albert Blakelock, American romanticist painter (d. 1919)
- October 16 – Gustav Baron, Croatian theologian (d. 1914)
- October 17
- Jervoise Athelstane Baines, Indian civil servant (d. 1925)
- Chiquinha Gonzaga, Brazilian composer (d. 1935)
- October 18 – Emma Elizabeth Brown, American author and artist (unknown year of death)
- October 19 – Aurilla Furber, American author, editor, and activist (d. 1898)
- October 20 – Mifflin E. Bell, American architect (d. 1904)
- October 21 – Edvard Brandes, Danish politician (d. 1931)
- October 22 – Koos de la Rey, Boer general (d. 1914)
- October 23 – Gottfried Blocklinger, United States admiral (d. 1930)
- October 24 – John Winfield Bonser, British colonial judge (d. 1914)
- October 27 – George Armitstead (mayor), Latvian politician (d. 1912)
- October 30
- Charlie Bassett, American sheriff (d. 1896)
- Thomas F. Porter, American politician, 32nd Mayor of Lynn, Massachusetts (d. 1927)
- October 31 – Wendell P. Bowman, American military officer (d. 1928)
November - November 1 – Emma Albani, Canandian operatic soprano (d. 1930)
- November 2 – Georges Sorel, French socialist (d. 1922)
- November 3 – George Thomas Baird, Canadian politician (d. 1917)
- November 4
- Infante Augusto, Duke of Coimbra, Royal prince of Portugal (d. 1889)
- William Allen (Congregationalist), English-born Australian Congregational clergyman (d. 1919)
- November 6 – Ugo Balzani, Italian historian (d. 1916)
- November 7
- Melvin O. Adams, American attorney, businessman (d. 1920)
- Lotta Crabtree, American stage actress (d. 1924)
- November 8
- Jean Casimir-Perier, 6th President of France (d. 1907)
- Bram Stoker, Irish author of the Gothic novel Dracula (d. 1912)
- Charles Alexander (cricketer, born 1847), English cricketer (d. 1902)
- November 9 – Carl Wilhelm Bøckmann Barth, Norwegian artist (d. 1919)
- November 10 – Frederick Arthur Bridgman, American artist (d. 1928)
- November 11
- Otto Böhler, Austrian silhouette-artist (d. 1911)
- Adam Carr Bell, Canadian politician (d. 1912)
- November 19 – Carl Friedländer, German pathologist, microbiologist (d. 1887)
- November 23
- Joseph Ackroyd, American politician (d. 1915)
- Walter Biggar Blaikie, British astronomer, engineer, historian and printer (d. 1928)
- November 25 – George W. Anson, British actor (d. 1920)
- November 26 – Dagmar of Denmark, empress of Tsar Alexander III of Russia (d. 1928)
- November 30 – Afonso Pena, Brazilian president (d. 1909)
December - December 1 – Agathe Backer-Grøndahl, Norwegian pianist, composer (d. 1907)
- December 3 – Arthur Ivan Allin, Danish musician (d. 1926)
- December 5 – Francis Baker (cricketer), English cricketer (d. 1901)
- December 6 – John Elmes Beale, British politician (d. 1928)
- December 7 – George Grossmith, English actor, comic writer (d. 1912)
- December 10
- John M. Baillie, Canadian politician (d. 1913)
- Harry Boyle, leading Australian Test cricketer of the late 1870s and early 1880s (d. 1907)
- December 15 – Rolf Andvord (consul), Norwegian shipowner (d. 1906)
- December 18
- Sir William Acland, 2nd Baronet, British Royal Navy admiral (d. 1924)
- Augusta Holmès, French composer (d. 1903)
- December 17
- Émile Faguet, French writer, critic (d. 1916)
- Michel-Joseph Maunoury, French general during World War I (d. 1923)
- December 20 – Ferenc Bihar, Hungarian politician (d. 1920)
- December 21 – Fletcher S. Bassett, American founder of the Chicago Folk-Lore Society (d. 1893)
- December 27 – Ferdinand Begg, Scottish stockbroker, politician (d. 1926)
- December 28 – Giuseppe Maria Giulietti, Italian explorer (d. 1881)
- December 29
- Alexis-Xyste Bernard, Canadian Catholic bishop (d. 1923)
- Sergey Andreyevsky, Russian writer, poet, literary critic and lawyer (d. 1918)
- December 30 – John Peter Altgeld, American politician, 20th Governor of Illinois (d. 1902)
- December 31 – Wilson S. Bissell, American politician from New York (d. 1903)
Date unknown - Eunice Eloisae Gibbs Allyn, American correspondent, author, and songwriter (d. 1916)
- Bandō Kakitsu I, Japanese kabuki actor (d. 1893)
- Clarissa Caldwell Lathrop, American social reformer and autobiographer (d. 1892)
Deaths January–June - January 19 – Charles Bent, first Governor of New Mexico Territory (b. 1799) (assassinated)
- March 9 – Mary Anning, British paleontologist (b. 1799)
- 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)
July–December - July 7 – Thomas Carpenter, American glassmaker (b. 1752)
- July 16 – Karl Friedrich Burdach, German physiologist (b. 1776)
- September 4 – František Vladislav Hek, Czech patriot (b. 1769)
- September 13 – Nicolas Oudinot, French marshal (b. 1767)
- October 3 – Charles Hatchett, English chemist (b. 1765)
- October 22
- Henriette Herz, German salonniére (b. 1764)
- Negus Sahle Selassie of Shewa (b. c. 1795)
- November 4 – Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (b. 1809)
- December 14
- Manuel José Arce, Central American politician (b. 1787)
- Dorothy Ann Thrupp, British psalmist (b. 1779)
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