WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO DECEMBER 1848
Find out what all happened March to December 1848

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

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is ratified by the United States Senate, ending the Mexican–American War. (10. March 1848)

A revolution breaks out in Hungary. The Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the Reform party. (15. March 1848)

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

California Gold Rush: In a message to the U.S. Congress, U.S. President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California. (5. December 1848)

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

Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage survives a 3-foot (0.91 m)-plus iron rod being driven through his head; the reported effects on his behavior and personality stimulate thinking about the nature of the brain and its functions. (13. September 1848)

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

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

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

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

The March Revolution went on in the German Confederation; in Berlin there was a struggle between citizens and military, costing about 300 lives. This started the revolution in Northern Germany. (18. March 1848)

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

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

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

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