WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO FEBRUARY 1849
Find out what all happened January to February 1849

New Roman Republic established (9. February 1849)

Second Anglo-Sikh War: The Siege of Multan ends after nine months when the last Sikh defenders of Multan, Punjab, surrender. (22. January 1849)

University of Wisconsin-Madison's first class meets at Madison Female Academy. (5. February 1849)

Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Geneva Medical College of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States' first female doctor. (23. January 1849)

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, 4 months 22 days after leaving New York Harbor. (28. February 1849)

Corn Laws are abolished in the United Kingdom pursuant to legislation in 1846. (31. January 1849)

In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving President of the United States to have his photograph taken. (14. February 1849)

The delegation headed by Metropolitan bishop Andrei Şaguna hands out to the Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria the General Petition of Romanian leaders in Transylvania, Banat and Bukovina, which demands that the Romanian nation be recognized. (13. February 1849)