1848
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Events
- Year of Liberal Revolution across Europe.
- Karl Marx and Frederick Engels publish The Communist Manifesto.
- Hawaiian King Kamehameha III signs The Great Mahele allowing commoners and haoles to own land outright or in "fee simple," a concept that continues today.
- al-hajj Umar Tal returns from pilgrimage to Mecca, joins the Tijanyyia brotherhood and launches jihad as the Tijanyyia leader of West Africa.
- Comanches stuck with smallpox epidemic.
- Ladislus Magyan explores Congo River.
Timeline
- January 24: James W. Marshall discovers gold in Coloma, California.
- February 21: John Quincy Adams suffers a stroke on the floor of the House of Representatives, and dies two days later.
- February 24: Louis Phillipe abdicates and the French Second Republic declared from the Hotel de Ville.
- March 3: Lajos Kossuth calls for representative government in Hungary.
- March 3: Revolution in the Rhineland.
- March 12: Revolution in Vienna.
- March 15: Revolution in Berlin.
- March 18: Revolution in Milan.
- March 22: Revolution in Venice, Venetian Republic was reestablished.
- April 10: Great Chartist Demonstration terrifies British ruling class.
- September: Rioting in Frankfurt.
- September 20: American brig Daphne sights and pursues a sea monster, a huge snake with a dragon's head, swimming in the eastern Atlantic. Guardian News Report
- December: Louis Napoleon Bonaparte wins 70% of the popular vote in French national elction.