1849
1849 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).
Events
January 1 - France issues Ceres , french's first postage stamp .
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 - End of Term for President of the United States James Knox Polk .
March 3 - Minnesota becomes a United States territory
March 3 - The United States Department of the Interior is established
March 3 - The U.S. Congress passes the Gold Coinage Act allowing the minting of gold coins
March 4 - Zachary Taylor refuses to be sworn in office on a Sabbath (Sunday ). Concequently the office of President of the United States of America is vacant for a single day. Urban legend instead helds that David Rice Atchison , President pro tempore of the United States Senate was President for a single day.
March 5 - Zachary Taylor becomes the 12th President of the United States of America .
March 29 - The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab
April 2 - The Revolutions of 1848 in the German states end and fail.
April 13 – Hungary declares independence – Austria crushes the rebellion with Russian aid
April 25 - The Governor General of Canada , Lord Elgin , signs the Rebellion Losses Bill , outraging Montreal 's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots .
May 3 - The May Uprising in Dresden begins - the last of the German revolutions of 1848 .
June 5 - Denmark becomes constitutional monarchy
November 16 - A Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group, but his execution is canceled at the last minute
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Births
January 18 - Edmund Barton , first Prime Minister of Australia († 1920 )
January 22 - August Strindberg , Swedish author, playwright and painter
February 18 - Alexander Kielland , Norwegian author
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 )
July 29 - Max Nordau , author, philosopher and Zionist leader († 1923 )
september 14 -Ivan Petrovich Pavlov ,behaviourist,(†1936 )
October 22 - William Miller , American baptist preacher
November 29 - John Ambrose Fleming , English electrical engineer, inventor of Fleming valve († 1945 )
December 4 - Crazy Horse , Chief of the Oglala Sioux
December 6 - August von Mackensen , German Field Marshal († 1945 )
December 12 – William Kissam Vanderbilt , railway magnate (+ 1920 )
Emma Abbott , American opera singer
John William Waterhouse , artist
Deaths
