Explore 629 historical events from 1840–1849.
Bernard Bosanquet was an English philosopher and political theorist, and an influential figure on matters of political and social policy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. …
Bernard Bosanquet, English philosopher and theorist (died 1923)
Max Erdmannsdörfer was a German conductor, pianist and composer.
Max Erdmannsdörfer, German conductor and composer (died 1905)
The California gold rush (1848–1855) was a gold rush in California, which began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California…
California Gold Rush: The New York Herald breaks the news to the East Coast of the United States of the gold rush in…
Phineas P. Gage (1823–1860) was an American railroad construction foreman remembered for his improbable[B1] survival of an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely …
Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage survives an iron rod 1+1⁄4 inches (3.2 cm) in diameter being driven through his…
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is a United States–based international nonprofit with the stated mission of promoting cooperation among scientists, d…
The American Association for the Advancement of Science is created.
The Battle of Pákozd was a battle in the Hungarian war of Independence of 1848–1849, fought on the 29 September 1848 in the Pákozd – Sukoró – Pátka triangle. It was the first and o…
The Battle of Pákozd is a stalemate between Hungarian and Croatian forces and is the first battle of the Hungarian…
Kandukuri Veeresalingam was a social reformer and writer from the Madras Presidency, British India, current Andhra Pradesh. He was considered as the Father of the Telugu Renaissanc…
Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Indian author and activist (died 1919)
Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves was a Brazilian politician and statesman who served as the fifth president of Brazil, from 1902 to 1906. Alves was elected in 1902, becoming the …
Rodrigues Alves, Brazilian politician, 5th President of Brazil (died 1919)
Robert I was the last sovereign Duke of Parma and Piacenza from 1854 until 1859, when the duchy was annexed to Sardinia-Piedmont during the Risorgimento. He was a member of the Hou…
Robert I, Duke of Parma (died 1907)
William Gilbert Grace was an English cricketer who is widely held to have been one of the sport's all-time greatest players. Always known by his initials as "WG", his first-class c…
W. G. Grace, English cricketer and physician (died 1915)
Raja Ravi Varma was an Indian painter. His works are one of the best examples of the fusion of European academic art with a purely Indian sensibility and iconography. He greatly en…
Raja Ravi Varma, Indian painter and academic (died 1906)
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin was a French painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer, whose work has been primarily associated with the Post-Impressionist and Symbolist movem…
Paul Gauguin, French painter and sculptor (died 1903)
Geevarghese Mar Gregorios of Parumala, also known as Parumala Thirumeni, was a Metropolitan of the Malankara Church. Parumala Thirumeni became the first person of Indian origin to …
Gheevarghese Mar Gregorios of Parumala, Indian bishop and saint (died 1902)
Thomas Henry Tracy was a Canadian architect and alderman. Born in London, Upper Canada, to Irish immigrants, Tracy was apprenticed to William Robinson for five years beginning in 1…
Thomas Henry Tracy, Canadian architect and alderman (died 1925)
Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto was an Italian polymath, whose areas of interest included sociology, civil engineering, economics, political science, and philosophy. He made severa…
Vilfredo Pareto, Italian economist and sociologist (died 1923)
Adolphus Frederick V was reigning grand duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz from 1904 to 1914.
Adolphus Frederick V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (died 1914)
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905. He also later s…
Arthur Balfour, Scottish-English lieutenant and politician, 33rd Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1930)
Baron Loránd Eötvös de Vásárosnamény, also called Baron Roland von Eötvös in English literature, was a Hungarian physicist. He is remembered today largely for his work on gravitati…
Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist and politician, Minister of Education of Hungary (died 1919)
Friedrich Ernst Dorn was a German physicist. He is best remembered for his discovery that radium emits a radioactive substance, later named radon.
Friedrich Ernst Dorn, German physicist (died 1916)
Alfred David Benjamin was an Australian-born businessman and philanthropist.
Alfred David Benjamin, Australian-born businessman and philanthropist. (died 1900)
William Michael Harnett was an American painter known for his trompe-l'œil still lifes of ordinary objects.
William Harnett, Irish-American painter and educator (died 1892)
Margaret Lindsay, Lady Huggins was an Irish-English scientific investigator and astronomer. With her husband William Huggins she was a pioneer in the field of spectroscopy and co-w…
Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Anglo-Irish astronomer and author (died 1915)
Susie King Taylor was an American nurse, educator, and memoirist. Born into slavery in coastal Georgia, she is known for being the first African-American nurse during the American …
Susie Taylor, American writer and first black Army nurse (died 1912)
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Sukhomlinov was a Russian general in the Imperial Russian Army who served as the Chief of the General Staff from 1908 to 1909 and the Minister of War from 1…
Vladimir Sukhomlinov, Russian general (died 1926)