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September 14 :Mexico City , capital of Mexico, is captured by U.S. troops led by GeneralWinfield Scott .May 8 : Earthquake in Japan kills 8,600 people.
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1847 (MDCCCXLVII ) was acommon year starting on Friday of theGregorian calendar and acommon year starting on Wednesday of theJulian calendar , the 1847th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini 2nd millennium , the 47th year of the19th century , and the 8th year of the1840s decade. As of the start of 1847, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
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January 4 –Samuel Colt sells his firstrevolver pistol to the U.S. government.January 13 – TheTreaty of Cahuenga ends fighting in theMexican–American War inCalifornia .January 16 –John C. Frémont is appointed Governor of the newCalifornia Territory.January 17 –St. Anthony Hall fraternity is founded atColumbia University , New York City.January 30 –Yerba Buena, California , is renamedSan Francisco .February 5 – A rescue effort, called the First Relief, leaves Johnson's Ranch to save the ill-fatedDonner Party of California-bound migrants who became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada earlier this winter. Some have resorted to survival by cannibalism.February 22 –Mexican–American War :Battle of Buena Vista – 5,000 American troops under GeneralZachary Taylor use their superiority inartillery to drive off 15,000 Mexican troops underAntonio López de Santa Anna , defeating the Mexicans the next day.February 25 –State University of Iowa is founded inIowa City, Iowa .March 1 March 4 – The30th United States Congress is sworn into office.March 9 –Mexican–American War : United States forces under GeneralWinfield Scott invade Mexico nearVeracruz .March 14 –Verdi 's operaMacbeth Teatro della Pergola , inFlorence , Italy.March 29 –Mexican–American War : United States forces under GeneralWinfield Scott takeVeracruz after asiege .March – The first known publication of the classic joke "Why did the chicken cross the road? " occurs inThe Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine [ 1] April 5 – The world's first municipally-funded civic publicpark ,Birkenhead Park inBirkenhead onMerseyside , England, is opened.[ 2] April 15 –The Lawrence School, Sanawar is established in India.April 16 –New Zealand Wars : A minorMāori chief is accidentally shot by a juniorBritish Army officer inWhanganui onNew Zealand 'sNorth Island , triggering theWanganui Campaign (which continues untilJuly 23 ).April 25 – TheExmouth Derry bound forQuebec , is wrecked offIslay , with only three survivors from more than 250 on board.[ 3] May 7 – InPhiladelphia , theAmerican Medical Association (AMA) is founded.May 8 TheNagano earthquake leaves more than 8,600 people dead inJapan . Bahrain's ruler, Shaikh Mohamed bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, signs a treaty with the British to prevent and combat the slave trade in the Arabian Gulf. May 31 – SecondTreaty of Erzurum : theOttoman Empire cedesAbadan Island to thePersian Empire .May – TheArchitectural Association School of Architecture is founded in London.June 1 – The first congress of theCommunist League is held in London.June 9 –Radley College , anEnglish public school , is founded near Oxford as a High Anglican institution.[ 4] June 26 – The first passenger railway wholly within modern-day Denmark opens, fromCopenhagen toRoskilde .[ 5] June – E. H. Booth & Co. Ltd, which becomes the northern England supermarket chainBooths , is founded when tea dealer Edwin Henry Booth, 19, opens a shop called "The China House" inBlackpool .July 24 : Mormons expelled from Illinois arrive at the Great Salt Lake in what is now Utah.October 12 – German inventors and industrialistsWerner von Siemens andJohann Georg Halske foundSiemens & Halske to develop theelectrical telegraph .October 19 –Charlotte Brontë publishesJane Eyre October 31 –Theta Delta Chi is founded as a socialfraternity atUnion College ,Schenectady, New York .October – The lastvolcanic eruption ofMount Guntur inWest Java occurs.November 3 –29 –Sonderbund War : In Switzerland, GeneralGuillaume-Henri Dufour 's Federal Army defeats theSonderbund (an alliance of sevenCatholic cantons ) in a civil war, with a total of only 86 deaths.November 4 –8 –James Young Simpson discovers theanesthetic properties ofchloroform and first uses it, successfully, on a patient, in anobstetric case inEdinburgh .[ 6] November 10 – The first brew ofCarlsberg beer is finished inCopenhagen .November 17 – The Battle of Um Swayya Spring takes place near a spring in Qatar, after a Bahraini force under Shaikh Ali bin Khalifa Deputy Ruler of Bahrain defeats the Al Binali tribe. The chief of the Al Binali, Isa bin Tureef, is slain in battle with over 70 fatalities from his side.December 14 –Emily Brontë andAnne Brontë publishWuthering Heights Agnes Grey December 20 – BritishRoyal Navy steamfrigate HMS Avenger (1845) is wrecked on theSorelle Rocks in theMediterranean Sea with the loss of 246 lives and only eight survivors.[ 7] December 21 –Emir Abdelkader surrenders to the French in Algeria.[ 8] February 3 –Warington Baden-Powell , British admiralty lawyer (d.1921 )February 4 –Remus von Woyrsch , German field marshal (d.1920 )February 5 –João Maria Correia Ayres de Campos, 1st Count of Ameal , Portuguese politician and antiquarian (d.1920 )February 8 –Hugh Price Hughes , Methodist social reformer, first Superintendent of theWest London Mission (d.1902 )February 11 –Thomas Alva Edison , American inventor (d.1931 )February 13 –Sir Robert McAlpine , Scottish builder (d.1930 )February 15 –Robert Fuchs , Austrian composer (d.1927 )February 16 –Philipp Scharwenka , Polish-German composer (d.1917 )February 17 –Otto Blehr , Norwegian attorney, Liberal Party politician, 7thPrime Minister of Norway (d.1927 )March 1 –Sir Thomas Brock , English sculptor (d.1922 )March 2 Isaac Barr , Anglican clergyman, promoter of British colonial settlement schemes (d.1937 )Cayetano Arellano , first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines under the American Civil Government (d.1920 )March 3 –Alexander Graham Bell , Scottish-born Canadian inventor (d.1922 )March 4 –Carl Josef Bayer , Austrian chemist (d.1904 )March 11 –Sidney Sonnino ,Prime Minister of Italy (d.1922 )[ 9] March 14 –Castro Alves , Brazilian poet (d.1871 )March 18 –William O'Connell Bradley , American politician from Kentucky (d.1914 )March 23 –Edmund Gurney , British psychologist (d.1888 )March 27 Paul von Hindenburg Bram Stoker Maria Pia of Savoy Thomas F. Porter October 1 –Annie Besant , English women's rights activist, writer and orator (d.1933 )[ 10] October 2 –Paul von Hindenburg , German field marshal,President of Germany (d.1934 )October 13 October 14 –Wilgelm Vitgeft , Russian admiral (d.1904 )October 15 –Ralph Albert Blakelock , American romanticist painter (d.1919 )October 16 –Maria Pia of Savoy ,Queen consort of Portugal (d.1911 )October 17 –Chiquinha Gonzaga , Brazilian composer (d.1935 )October 19 –Aurilla Furber , American author, editor, and activist (d.1898 )October 20 –Mifflin E. Bell , American architect (d.1904 )October 22 –Koos de la Rey , Boer general (d.1914 )October 30 Fanny Mendelssohn January 19 –Charles Bent , first Governor of New Mexico Territory (b.1799 ) (assassinated)February 3 –Marie Duplessis , French courtesan (b.1824 )February 5 –Luis José de Orbegoso , Peruvian general and politician, 11th and 12thPresident of Peru (b.1795 )March 9 –Mary Anning , British paleontologist (b.1799 )March 3 –Charles Hatchett , English chemist (b.1765 )[ 12] April 21 –Barbara Spooner Wilberforce , wife of British abolitionist William Wilberforce (b.1777 )April 30 –Archduke Charles of Austria , Austrian general (b.1771 )May 14 –Fanny Mendelssohn , German composer, pianist (b.1805 )May 15 –Daniel O'Connell , Irish politician who promoted theRoman Catholic Relief Act 1829 (b.1775 )May 16 –Vicente Rocafuerte , 2nd President of Ecuador (b.1783 )May 29 –Emmanuel de Grouchy, Marquis de Grouchy , French marshal (b.1766 )June 11 –Afonso, Prince Imperial of Brazil (b.1845 )June 11 –Sir John Franklin , British explorer (b.1786 )Felix Mendelssohn ^ The Knickerbocker, or The New York Monthly , March 1847, p. 283.^ "The History of Birkenhead Park" . Archived fromthe original on June 26, 2008. RetrievedSeptember 13, 2007 .^ "The Exmouth - a terrible tragedy on Islay" .Isle of Islay . 2011. Archived fromthe original on December 4, 2013. RetrievedJuly 13, 2012 .^ Boyd, A. K. (1948).The History of Radley College 1847-1947 . RetrievedNovember 14, 2020 . ^ Marshall, John (1989).The Guinness Railway Book . Enfield: Guinness Books.ISBN 0-8511-2359-7 OCLC 24175552 .[page needed ^ First communicated to the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh, November 10, and published in a pamphlet,Notice of a New Anæsthetic Agent , in Edinburgh, November 12. ^ Gilly, William Octavius Shakespeare (1850).Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy between 1793 and 1849 ^ "Abdelkader | EBSCO Research Starters" .www.ebsco.com . RetrievedJuly 17, 2025 .^ (in Italian) Sidney Sonnino (1847–1922). Note biografiche , Centro Studi Sidney Sonnino^ Framke, Maria:Besant, Annie , in:1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War ^ Gemignani, Marco."MIRABELLO, Carlo" .treccani.it (in Italian). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. RetrievedFebruary 4, 2024 . ^ "Charles Hatchett | British chemist | Britannica" .www.britannica.com . RetrievedFebruary 27, 2022 .^ Raymond Detrez (2010).The A to Z of Bulgaria . Scarecrow Press. p. 17.ISBN 9780810872028 
