WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO DECEMBER 1848
Find out what all happened February to December 1848

In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, The Boston Female Medical School (which later merged with the Boston University School of Medicine), opens. (1. November 1848)

Battle of Pákozd: stalemate between Hungarian and Croatian forces at Pákozd; the first battle of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. (29. September 1848)

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

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

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

Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia (4. March 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)

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

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

A greatly revised Dutch constitution, drafted by Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, severely limiting the powers of the Dutch monarchy, and strengthening the powers of parliament and ministers, is proclaimed. (3. November 1848)

The ship John Wickliffe arrives at Port Chalmers carrying the first Scottish settlers for Dunedin, New Zealand. Otago province is founded. (23. March 1848)

Women's rights: a two-day Women's Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, New York. (19. July 1848)

Franz Josef I becomes Emperor of Austria. (2. December 1848)

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

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

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

Slavery is abolished in Martinique. (22. May 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)