1847

Events

   * January 3 - The California town of Yerba Buena is renamed San
     Francisco.
   * January 4 - Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United
     States government.
   * January 13 - The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican-American War in
     California.
   * January 16 - John C. Fremont is appointed Governor of the new
     California Territory.
   * January 30 - Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco. (but see
     January 3?)
   * February 19 - The Donner Party is rescued. It is noted that some of the
     survivors seem to be remarkably well-fed considering their ordeal.
   * February 22 - Mexican-American War: The Battle of Buena Vista - 5,000
     American troops under General Zachary Taylor use their superiority in
     artillery to drive off 15,000 Mexican troops under Antonio Lopez de
     Santa Anna defeating the Mexicans the next day.
   * March 9 - Mexican-American War: United States forces under General
     Winfield Scott invade Mexico near Veracruz.
   * March 29 - Mexican-American War: United States forces led by General
     Winfield Scott take Veracruz after a siege.
   * May 7 - In Philadelphia, the American Medical Association (AMA) is
     founded.
   * July 1 - The United States issues its first postage stamps.
   * July 24 - After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon
     pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt
     Lake City.
   * July 26 - Liberia gains independence.
   * September 6 - Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves in with
     Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts.
   * October 12 - German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens
     founds Siemens AG & Halske.

Births

   * February 11 - Thomas Alva Edison, US inventor.
   * April 10 - Joseph Pulitzer, journalist and newspaper publisher
   * March 3 - Alexander Graham Bell, father of the telephone.

Deaths

   * January 19 - Charles Bent, New Mexico pioneer
   * March 9 - Mary Anning, British paleontologist
   * March 11 - Johnny Appleseed, pioneer, agronomist
   * May 14 - Fanny Mendelssohn, composer and pianist
   * Charles Hatchett, English chemist who discovered niobium

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