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1847 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1847th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 847th year of the 2nd millennium, the 47th year of the 19th century, and the 8th year of the 1840s decade. As of the start of 1847, the ...
These California bound emigrants became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada in the winter of 1846–1847, and some have resorted to cannibalism to survive. February 22 – Mexican–American War – The Battle of Buena Vista : 5,000 American troops under General Zachary Taylor use their superiority in artillery to drive off 15,000 Mexican troops ...
That marked the end of the war in California. On January 13, 1847, the Treaty of Cahuenga was signed. On January 26, 1847, Army lieutenant William Tecumseh Sherman and his unit arrived in Monterey. On March 15, 1847, Col. Jonathan D. Stevenson's Seventh Regiment of New York Volunteers of about 900 men began to arrive. All of these troops were ...
1847: Jan 19: Governor Charles Bent of the New Mexico Territory is assassinated and scalped during the Taos Revolt. [77] Feb: The first of three relief missions arrives to rescue survivors of the Donner Party, who have been snowbound in California's Sierra Nevada mountains for more than three months. May
The city in 1847. In 1842, when a two-story brick depot was built, the locals asked that the settlement of Terminus be called Lumpkin, after Governor Wilson Lumpkin. Gov. Lumpkin asked them to name it after his young daughter (Martha Atalanta Lumpkin) instead, and Terminus became Marthasville; [16] it was officially incorporated on December 23 ...
Benjamin Franklin — George Washington The First U.S. Postage Stamps, issued 1847. The first stamp issues were authorized by an act of Congress and approved on March 3, 1847. [20] The earliest known use of the Franklin 5¢ is July 7, 1847, while the earliest known use of the Washington 10¢ is July 2, 1847.
A portrait from the late 18th century by an unknown artist, believed to depict Captain George Vancouver (1757-1798), a British naval explorer in 1792, who claimed the territory of modern-day Washington state in the Pacific Northwest region along the West Coast of North America for the United Kingdom / British Empire and named the inlet / bay of Puget Sound.
March 13, 1847 The District of Columbia retroceded Alexandria County back to Virginia. [85] Congress passed the act on July 9, 1846, [187] residents of Alexandria County were proclaimed by the president to have agreed to it on September 7, 1846, [188] and Virginia took possession of the land on this date. [189] May 29, 1848