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Historical Event(s)
– Revolutions of 1848 in the German states: King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates.
– First performance of Finland’s national anthem.
– Opening of the first German National Assembly (Nationalversammlung) in Frankfurt, Germany.
– Slavery is abolished in Martinique.
– Women’s rights: a two-day Women’s Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, New York; there the “Bloomers” are introduced.
– California Gold Rush: the New York Herald breaks the news to the East Coast of the United States of the gold rush in California (although the rush started in January).
– The United States annexes New Mexico.
– Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage survives a 3 ft-plus iron rod being driven through his head; the reported effects on his behavior and personality stimulate thinking about the nature of the brain and its functions.
– Battle of Pákozd: stalemate between Hungarian and Croatian forces at Pákozd; the first battle of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.
– Franz Josef I becomes Emperor of Austria.
Who Were Born On ?
– Jean Aicard, French poet (d. 1921)
– Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer (d. 1934)
– Louisa Lawson, Australian suffragist and writer (d. 1920)
– Louis Comfort Tiffany, American glass artist (d. 1933)
– Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Irish-born American sculptor (d. 1907)
– Adelaide Neilson, English actress (d. 1880)
– Nathanael Herreshoff, American naval architect (d. 1938)
– Honoré Beaugrand, Quebec journalist and newspaper publisher (La Patrie) (d. 1906)
– José Gautier Benítez, Puerto Rican poet (d. 1880)
– Eduard Müller, Swiss politician (d. 1919)