WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO OCTOBER 1848
Find out what all happened January to October 1848

Opening of the first German National Assembly (Nationalversammlung) in Frankfurt, Germany. (18. May 1848)

Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt – in Tipperary, Ireland, then in the United Kingdom, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put down by police. (29. July 1848)

Mexican–American War: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed. (2. February 1848)

The French Revolution of 1848, which would lead to the establishment of the French Second Republic, begins. (22. February 1848)

The Slavic congress in Prague begins. (2. June 1848)

Slaves are freed in the Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands) by Peter von Scholten in the culmination of a year-long plot by enslaved Africans. (3. July 1848)

California Gold Rush: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter's Mill near Sacramento. (24. January 1848)

End of the June Days Uprising in Paris. (26. June 1848)

The first railroad in Spain – between Barcelona and Mataró – is opened. (28. October 1848)

Waterloo railway station in London opens. (11. July 1848)

Revolutions of 1848 in the German states: King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates. (20. March 1848)

Oregon Territory is organized by act of Congress. (14. August 1848)

First performance of Finland's national anthem. (13. May 1848)

In the Wallachian Revolution, Ion Heliade Rădulescu and Christian Tell issue the Proclamation of Islaz and create a new republican government. (21. June 1848)

Provisional government in revolutionary France, by Louis Blanc's motion, guarantees workers' rights. (25. February 1848)

Camila O'Gorman and Ladislao Gutierrez are executed on the orders of Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas. (18. August 1848)

Slavery is abolished in Martinique. (22. May 1848)

King Louis-Philippe of France abdicates the throne. (24. February 1848)

Switzerland becomes a Federal state. (12. September 1848)

The Palermo rising takes place in Sicily against the Bourbon Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. (12. January 1848)