WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO DECEMBER 1849
Find out what all happened July to December 1849

The first air raid in history. Austria launches pilotless balloons against the city of Venice. (22. August 1849)

After a month-long siege, Venice, which had declared itself independent as the Republic of San Marco, surrenders to Austria. (28. August 1849)

American abolitionist Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery. (17. September 1849)

The French enter Rome in order to restore Pope Pius IX to power. This would prove a major obstacle to Italian unification. (3. July 1849)

A Russian court sentences writer Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his sentence is later commuted to hard labor. (16. November 1849)

Antonio María Claret y Clará founded the Congregation of the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, popularly known as the Claretians in Vic, in the province of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. (16. July 1849)

American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death. (3. October 1849)

The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence. (6. October 1849)