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After New York Herald breaks the news on gold in California in August 1848, adds such as this become a regular feature in newspapers[/caption]
In the year 1848, the California Gold Rush begins (Jan 24), Mexico cedes most of what becomes the future Southwestern United States to the U.S. (Feb 2), Marx and Engels publish The Communist Manifesto in London (Feb 21), the Hungarian Revolution begins (Mar 15), the German Revolutions culminate in Berlin (Mar 18), the Swiss Federal Constitution enters into force, creating one of the first modern democratic states in Europe (Sep 12), representative democracy is proclaimed in the Netherlands (Nov 3), Franz Joseph becomes Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary and Bohemia, until 1916 (Nov 24), a wave of revolutions sweeps across Europe and elsewhere, the famine in Ireland continues, several universities are founded - and all these fine people were born:
1848-0121 Eva Ahlström* (b Holmström) industrial leader/philanthropist - GD of Finland (1920/72) 1848-0121 Henri Duparc* composer - Paris, Kingdom of France (1933/85) 1848-0205 Belle Starr* notorious American outlaw - Carthage, MO USA (1889/40) 1848-0214 Benjamin Baillaud* astronomer - Chalon-sur-Saône,France (1934/86) 1848-0218 Louis Comfort Tiffany* designer/glass artist - New York, NY USA (1933/84) 1848-0224 Andrew Inglis Clark* engineer/barrister/ founding father and the principal author of the Australian Constitution - Hobart, Tasmania (1907/59) 1848-0225 Anna Fisher Beiler* British-born American missionary and newspaper editor - Newcastle upon Tyne, England (1904/56) 1848-0229 Adele Zay* Transylvanian teacher/feminist/ pedagogue - Hermannstadt, Austrian Empire (1928/80) 1848-0301 Augustus Saint-Gaudens* American sculptor - Dublin, Ireland (1907/59) 1848-0308 LaMarcus Adna Thompson* inventor of roller coaster/ businessman - Jersey, OH USA (1919/71) 1848-0310 1848-0311 Werner Tawaststjerna* teacher/historian/ governor - Jyväskylä, GD of Finland (1936/88) 1848-0319 Wyatt Earp* deputy sheriff/ gambler - Monmouth, IL USA (1929/80) 1848-0320 1848-0331 William Waldorf Astor* American-British attorney/politician/businessman (hotels & newspapers) - New York City, NY USA (1919/71) 1848-0401 Commodore Nutt* circus entertainer - Manchester, NH USA (1881/33) 1848-0405 Thure de Thulstrup* leading American illustrator - Stockholm, Sweden (1930/82) 1848-0510 Thomas Lipton* entrepreneur (Lipton teas)/yachtsman - Glasgow, Scotland (1931/83) 1848-0515 Adolf Kaufmann* landscape and marine artist - Troppau, Austrian Empire (1916/68) 1848-0523 Otto Lilienthal* pioneer of aviation/glider flier - Anklam, Pomerania, Kingdom of Prussia (1896/48) 1848-0607 Gabriel Biaudet* teacher/ translator/founder of a French School for Girls in Helsinki/to Finland at age 25 - Saint-Lô, France (1898/49) 1848-0607 Paul Gauguin* painter - Paris, French Second Republic (1903/54) 1848-0619 Mary R. Platt Hatch* author - Stratford, NH USA (1935/87) 1848-0702 Carl Kämp* restaurateur/founder of Hotel Kämp in Helsinki - Tuusula, GD of Finland (1889/41) 1848-0706 Gábor Baross* statesman - Barossháza (now Pružina), Hungary (1892/43) 1848-0715 Vilfredo Pareto* Italian engineer/ economist/ philosopher - Paris, French Second Republic (1923/75) 1848-0804 Susie Taylor* the first Black Army nurse - Liberty County, GA USA (1912/64) 1848-0824 Kate Claxton* actress - Somerville, NJ USA (1924/75) 1848-0904 Lewis Howard Latimer* inventor/patent draftsman - Chelsea MA USA (1928/80) 1848-0910 1848-0914 Adolf Albin* chess player - Bucharest, Romania (1920/71) 1848-0919 Gunnar Knudsen* shipowner/ politician/PM - Saltrød, Norway-Sweden (1928/80) 1848-0920 Friedrich Soennecken* office supplies entrepreneur/ inventor of the ring binder and hole punch - Sauerland, Germany (1919/70) 1848-1003 Henry Lerolle* painter/art collector/patron - Paris, French Second Republic (1929/80) 1848-1015 Harmon Northrop Morse* chemist/developer of paracetamol - Cambridge, VT USA (1920/71) 1848-1027 Karl Fredrik Slotte* physicist - Alaveteli, GD of Finland (1914/65) 1848-1101 1848-1103 Francis Davis Millet* painter/ writer/sank with the Titanic - Mattapoisett, MA USA (1912/63) 1848-1104 Grace Bedell* at age 11, influenced Abraham Lincoln to grow his famous beard - Albion, NY USA (1936/87) 1848-1116 Alatau T. Atkinson* journalist/newspaper owner/converter of Hawaii’s schools into using English as the predominant language - Kapal, Siberia (1906/57) 1848-1120 James M. Spangler* inventor/salesman /janitor - Plains Township, PA USA (1915/66) 1848-1201 1848-1204 Franz Rumpler* genre and landscape painter - Tachau, Austrian Empire (1922/73) 1848-1205 Edwin Blashfield* painter/muralist - Brooklyn, NY USA (1936/87) 1848-1206 Johann Palisa* astronomer - Troppau, Austrian Empire (1925/76) 1848-0 1848-0 1848-0 Updated 2025-0429 Helsinki Search for another year here