WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO NOVEMBER 1848
Find out what all happened January to November 1848

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

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

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

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)

The American Association for the Advancement of Science is created. (20. September 1848)

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

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

Switzerland becomes a Federal state. (12. September 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)

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

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

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

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

California Gold Rush: The first ship with Chinese immigrants arrives in San Francisco. (2. February 1848)

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

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

Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia (4. March 1848)

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