WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO AUGUST 1848
Find out what all happened January to August 1848

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

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

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)

Beginning of the June Days Uprising in Paris, France. (23. June 1848)

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

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

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

California Gold Rush: the New York Herald breaks the news to the East Coast of the United States of the gold rush in California (although the rush started in January). (19. August 1848)

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

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

Mexican–American War: Mexico ratifies the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo thus ending the war and ceding California, Nevada, Utah and parts of four other modern-day U.S. states to the United States for US$15 million. (19. May 1848)

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto. (21. February 1848)

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

American victory at the battle of Cerro Gordo opens the way for invasion of Mexico. (18. April 1848)

Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government. (11. March 1848)

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

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

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

Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state. (29. May 1848)