WHAT HAPPENED IN 1849.
Look what happened the 1849.

Second Anglo-Sikh War: The Siege of Multan ends after nine months when the last Sikh defenders of Multan, Punjab, surrender. (22. January 1849)

Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Geneva Medical College of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States' first female doctor. (23. January 1849)

Corn Laws are abolished in the United Kingdom pursuant to legislation in 1846. (31. January 1849)

University of Wisconsin-Madison's first class meets at Madison Female Academy. (5. February 1849)

New Roman Republic established (9. February 1849)

The delegation headed by Metropolitan bishop Andrei Şaguna hands out to the Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria the General Petition of Romanian leaders in Transylvania, Banat and Bukovina, which demands that the Romanian nation be recognized. (13. February 1849)

In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving President of the United States to have his photograph taken. (14. February 1849)

Regular steamboat service from the west to the east coast of the United States begins with the arrival of the SS California in San Francisco Bay, 4 months 22 days after leaving New York Harbor. (28. February 1849)

The Austrians defeat the Piedmontese at the Battle of Novara. (22. March 1849)

The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab. (29. March 1849)

Hungary becomes a republic. (13. April 1849)

Hungary declares itself independent of Austria with Lajos Kossuth as its leader. (14. April 1849)

The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots. (25. April 1849)

Astor Place Riot: A riot breaks out at the Astor Opera House in Manhattan, New York City over a dispute between actors Edwin Forrest and William Charles Macready, killing at least 25 and injuring over 120. (10. May 1849)

Troops of the Two Sicilies take Palermo and crush the republican government of Sicily (15. May 1849)

A large fire nearly burns St. Louis, Missouri to the ground. (17. May 1849)

President Abraham Lincoln is issued a patent for an invention to lift boats over obstacles in a river, the only patent ever issued to a U.S. President. (22. May 1849)

The Great Hall of Euston station in London is opened. (27. May 1849)

Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new constitution. (5. June 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)