1849

Events

   * January 23 - Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her MD by the Medical
     Institute of Geneva, New York, thus becoming the United States' first
     woman doctor.
   * January 31 - Corn Laws abolished in the United Kingdom
   * February 14 - In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first
     President of the United States to have his photograph taken.
   * February 28 - 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. The California left New York Harbor on October 6,
     1848, rounded Cape Horn at the tip of South America, and arrived at San
     Francisco, California after the 4 month 21 day journey.
   * March 3 - Minnesota becomes a United States territory.
   * March 3 - The United States Department of the Interior is established.
   * March 3 - The United States Congress passes the Gold Coinage Act
     allowing the minting of gold coins.
   * March 29 - The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab
   * June 5 - Denmark becomes constitutional monarchy

   * Joseph Fry makes the first chocolate bar
   * Zachary Taylor succeeds James Knox Polk as President of the United
     States of America (with David Rice Atchison serving for a single day
     between the two as Taylor refused to be sworn in on the Sabbath)

Births

   * January 22 - August Strindberg, Swedish author, playwright and painter.
   * February 22 - Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin, mathematician
   * March 2 - Robert Means Thompson, naval officer (+ 1930)
   * March 7 - Luther Burbank, biologist, botanist
   * March 19 - Alfred von Tirpitz, German soldier (+ 1930)
   * December 4 - Crazy Horse, later Chief of the Oglala Sioux.
   * Emma Abbott, american opera singer
   * John William Waterhouse, Artist

Deaths

   * March 14- Willem II, king of the Netherlands (1840-1849)
   * May 28 - Anne Bronte, author
   * September 25 - Johann Strauss I, Austrian composer
   * October 7 - Edgar Allan Poe, writer
   * December 2 - Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen - queen consort of King William
     IV of the United Kingdom

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